Language Translations for Creation

i’m a native Portuguese speaker! and i’m a bit rusty but i do speak Japanese, i studied abroad in Japan to learn ^0^ just not a pro anymore cause that was a couple years ago OTL

It's been a while since I did Latin, but I was quite good at it in school and won some faculty awards! for "You can't handle the truth", I would say something like "vērum habēre nōn potes" - the dashes are for stresses/long vowels, but they're often not written outside of a grammatical context. the pronunciation would be something like "way-room ha-bay-ray nohn* po-tes" *(non is kind of nasally but its hard to type out when I don't know real phonetics. the r's may also have a bit of a roll if you're so inclined, though we can only really extrapolate how classical latin sounded.)

In latin the subject is embeded in the verb in most cases, unless you want to emphasize it for some reason (you can't handle the truth, but i can, etc). so "potes" is "you are able to", and "non" is just the negation of the verb. habere is a very broad verb (it often means literally "to have" which is where we get the English word, b and v are very similar historically), but it can have the sense of "bearing" or "enduring". "verum" is "the truth" - in latin there's also the word 'veritas' which you've likely heard, which translates to a more abstract kind of truth, more like "truth" than "the truth". You could also say "vērum habēre nōn possīs" if you wanted more of a sense of "you wouldn't be able to handle the truth".

There is no strict word order in latin, so arrange the words in whatever way you'd like! I've just given the most common/standard word order, with the main verb at the end and the object at the start.

junowani That's awesome! Nothing wrong with being rusty, just need to practice again! Do you know Kanji? That's by far the most complicated 😱

physics Holy crap! That's one hell of an explanation! Thank you very much on that 😁 Congrats on the rewards, too, you deserved them! Are there any interesting idioms in Latin that might not be very common?

ahhh thank you!! ;u; i do read/write kanji, i haven’t taken the JLPT so i don’t really know what level i am tho LOL// and i feel like i always mess up when i write them 😔

Would anyone here be able to translate English to Japanese Kanji?

I’m needing some translations for a character I am still developing. 

I know I can use some translator online but I am honestly not sure if those translations are 100% correct. 

native mandarin speaker :p I'm not a great reference tho because my family's from the southern side of the country and pronounce certain words differently from how they are supposed to be pronounced (ex. not being able to find the right pinyin while typing even tho u swore its said like that). 

I see chinese online and on TH every now and then and likE most ppl just use a few characters but whenever its a sentence its just often,,like weird?? Like, yeah ig u can say it like that but the phrasing is just kinda awkward, esp in a conversation lmAo If its out of convesation and esp like, literature writing, chinese and english rlly aren't friends either... theres just concepts that can't be expressed in english or the other way around. I appreciate whenever someone uses a chengyu and im like oh hell yeah 

btw i suck at the technicities cuz i haven't learned properly for like years so dont take my words for granted lol

junowani That's really cool though! Maybe you can help some people out here :) JumpyScares seems to need some assistance. If not then that's okay! 

Jumpy, what kind of things are you needing translated? 

sanduke Awesome, nice to meet you! I didn't know that certain parts pronounced things differently, but it makes sense! What's a common word that's normally pronounced differently from usual? And what's the difference exactly? I'm very curious. 

oh for sure!! JumpyScares feel free to dm me if you need anything!

Dez I just messaged junowani with what I was needing translated. :)

Dez

Well mostly its just accents haha. esp since where my family is from has its own dialect (which sounds kinda like a heavily accented mandarin) but because of it, I say some things differently from the official version of it. Also, lots of ppl just tend to have deviations from the official ver. 

I can't remember one rtn, but I know a more common one is the difference between -ing and -in (this applies to -ung and -un, etc. as well. An example is jin vs jing). idk what its called in english, but basically one is heavier and the other is lighter. The heavier one when done right should kinda feel like its from the back of your nose?? ik super weird description adsoifnsadf

theres so many variations of mandarin across the country its pretty cool. Ppl call diff things diff names, and often incorporate their own 'dialect' into it as well. Honestly im glad I didn't have to 'learn' chinese as a second language, because I can't imagine remembering all the small details like when to say 'yao' instead of 'yi' (both means 'one' or 'first/smallest', kinda)

junowani Thanks for assisting!! ❤️

sanduke Your explanations make sense, so no worries! Honestly I think Chinese is the most difficult language @_@ so I agree with you there. But it's pretty awesome that you know it and English, too, so you can share it with others. I honestly wouldn't have known any of this stuff without everyone here sharing the information. So thanks for that :) 

Dez

oidjfasdf i think its just very different. There's a lot of memorization obv involved, but at the same time (in my experience at least), there is less weird grammar rules. nahh mine is bad tbh as I haven't studied it rigoriously for years, but yeah def no probs man lol. honestly itd be pretty cool for some sort of online center to have ppl help w/ language translations etc. 

sanduke Ah less grammar rules would be so lovely. English is weird in the fact that grammar is so different from so many different languages, at least from what I've heard. And yeah, it'd be really cool to have something like that! I'm kinda hoping that this post grows a lot so that people can help each other out with languages, whether it be names, worlds, learning the actual language, or just wanting to know phrases. I hope you'll be a part of it :) Maybe the community can come together and really make this into something!

Ah that reminds me. So I'm making a world that's pretty surreal and I'm hoping to get unique names for them, or at least something a bit different. In this world I have a forest that eats sound, so it's completely silent in and around the area. I'm wanting a really cool name, but hoping that it'll have some kind of meaning like "place where noise is trapped" or "forest that eats sound" or something. Obviously this isn't going to be easy, since it's mostly a phrase. But it makes me think on things like this name I found, "Kalabhiti," which means "of whom death is afraid." Or things like Saudade, which is a Portuguese word meaning the feeling of longing for something or someone that you love and which is lost. Or my favorite, L'appel du vide, or "call of the void" in French (please let me know if any of these things are wrong, they're from the internet @_@).

But yeah, I was hoping for something like that with my not so little forest location. Since the English language doesn't have anything like that, I was wondering if any of you guys can throw some things in there that might work?