Re: Translation opportunity (was: Conorthography aesthetics)
| From: | Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> |
|---|
| Date: | Tuesday, September 16, 2003, 5:32 |
|---|
On Saturday, September 13, 2003, at 06:21 , John Cowan wrote:
> Ray Brown scripsit:
>
>> With that I entirely sympathasize. The sooner ASCII is asigned to the
>> dustbin of history the better, I day. Vivat Unicode!
>
> BTW, if you have time for a little Latin Prose Composition,
> the Unicode Consortium is looking for translations of
>
http://www.unicode.org/standard/WhatIsUnicode.html> into natlangs
> and auxlangs. (One-user artlangs probably aren't useful, alas.)
But Klingon, Quenya & Sindarin might be interesting. Any enthusiasts
on the list?
> Non-Latin-script natlangs are especially desirable, but I'm sure they'd
> love to have Latin. The English text is just over 400 words long,
> excluding the proper names.
It will be an interesting exercise - it's some time since I did any serious
Latin composition. I'm already pondering the best way to render
"platform" :)
>
> You also get to define the word for "Unicode" in the language, if it is
> not known there already.
For some reason it's not known in Latin. The all too obvious *Unicodus
is rather infantile. Why make it masculine? And why 2nd declension?
I notice the majority of languages simply leave it as Unicode; and there
are good examples from all periods of Latin, including the classical
period,
of just adopting an obviously foreign word as it stands and treating it as
an indeclinable neuter noun. Or one could bring the silent 'e' to life, so
to speak, and have 'Unicode' /u:niko:de/ as a 3rd declension neuter.
Umm- maybe the latter?
See I'm already getting interested.
> --
> A mosquito cried out in his pain, John Cowan
> "A chemist has poisoned my brain!"
http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
> The cause of his sorrow
http://www.reutershealth.
> com
> Was para-dichloro- jcowan@reutershealth.com
> Diphenyltrichloroethane. (aka DDT)
>
>
>
Replies