Re: Desiring good English to Greek / Greek to English and English to Latin / Latin to English books

Edgard Bikelis wrote:
> On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 12:28 AM, Nomad of Norad -- David C Hall <
> nomad-conlang@joshua-wopr.com> wrote:
>
>> Can someone point me to a good, fairly comprehensive, English to Greek
>> dictionary?
>
>
> http://www.ancientlibrary.com/eng-grk/
>
>
>>  And a good, fairly comprehensive, English to Latin dictionary?  Ideally,
>> the Greek one would need to tell me the word in Greek, followed by the
>> pronunciation in English-style lettering, that is, transliterated into
>> English.
>
>
> I suggest you learning the greek alphabet... it's beautiful and not that
> hard, in comparison to learning devanagari, for instance ; ). IPA is a must
> too. Wikipedia helps me on that all the time...
>
>
>> I came across one English to Greek, Greek to English book on Amazon.com
>> that had a review on it warning that it wasn't really that great for
>> translating stuff from English into Greek, because that particular book was
>> much more heavily weighted towards Greek to English...  :-/
>
>
> Learn a bit of both languages first... try Reading Greek and Reading Latin,
> fine books... I prefer the second, though.
>
>
>> Oh yeah, and what's the best beginners book on learning the art of
>> conlanging?  :-D
>
>
> I guess  we need to know how a language works... then try to emulate, or
> perhaps make it better ; ). I would suggest a good book on Linguistics, but
> I don't remember any : /.
>
> Edgard.
I'll keep those in mind.  The primary thing I'm trying to do, though, is
gather a bunch of basic words to import phonetically as "loan words"
into my new language. Shift the sound of them, mutate them a bit, and
stuff.  Words like Mother, Father, Baby, Child, Son, Daughter, Bread,
Water, Milk, and so on.  The recipient language, on the other hand, will
likely have its own, separate grammatical structure, and belong to a
distinctly separate culture. That is why I'm primarily looking for an
at-a-glance phonetic pronunciation guide for each word, rather than
something that details the complete mechanics of the donor languages.
I'll deal with the mechanics of the donor languages later.  :D

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