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Keep Hoping Machine Running ([personal profile] thefourthvine) wrote2008-03-22 12:36 pm

Help, friends list?

I need translations (in any language - I will totally welcome things like Elvish and Klingon, too) for the following five words:

Welcome

Read

Listen

Create

Explore

Any bilingual/multilingual people out there who like to help me out? You'll get - okay. You'll just get thanks. But they will be very sincere thanks.

[identity profile] ileliberte.livejournal.com 2008-03-22 10:27 pm (UTC)(link)
I used the words as you would use them in saying it to someone else.

Hindi:

Welcome: Swagat
Read: Padhiye (to read: padhna. dh=hard r)
Listen: Suniye (to read: sunna)
Create: Banaiye (to create: banana (yes, really))
Explore: Khojiye (word similar for explore and find. to explore: khojna)

Bengali, very similar to Hindi with mainly more rounded sounds:

Welcome: Swagoto
Read: Poro (to read: porano)
Listen: Shono (to read: shonano)
Create: Banao (to create: banano)
Explore: Khojo (word similar for explore and find. to explore: khoja)

ETA: edited to clean up things that I left when I clicked submit by mistake :/

[identity profile] lizzy-someone.livejournal.com 2010-07-05 09:32 pm (UTC)(link)
(Hi, sorry, I realize that it is weird to be commenting on this two years later, but I am a linguistics major, okay, I CANNOT HELP IT, might you be so kind as to put an end to my uncomprehending misery? Because I am extremely intrigued by what "more rounded sounds" means in this context. I do see more O's in the Bengali, which certainly are rounded sounds, but I cannot help but suspect that that is not what you meant and I am missing something fascinating!)