Handy reference for your next Imperial encounter

[slipjig3]

Well, dammit, it looks like this is now an official capital-P Projekt. Might as well dive in.

As stated in this post, I am attempting to learn how to say, "I am a member of the Imperial Senate on a diplomatic mission to Alderaan," in as many languages as possible. So far, we have the following:

Afrikaans: Ek is 'n lid van die keiserlike senaat op 'n diplomatieke sending na Alderaan. (from belgatherial)

Anglo-Saxon: Ic eom Þegn caserlices gemotes ærendiende to Alderaane. (from highlyeccentric)

Catalan: Soc membre del senat Imperíal i fem misió diplomatic a' Alderaan. (from sikander7 via belgatherial)

Danish: Jeg er et medlem af det Kejserlige Senat på diplomatisk mission til Alderaan. (from auton)

Dutch: Ik ben een lid van de Keizerlijke Senaat op diplomatieke missie naar Alderaan. (from agirlnamedluna)

Esperanto: Mi estas membro de la Imperia Senato sur diplomatia misio Alderaan. (from tinkerer)

Finnish: Olen Keisarillisen Senaatin jäsen diplomaattitehtävässä Alderaaniin. (from juuro)

Flemish: Ik Ben Een lid van den kiezersenate op een diplomatieke opdracht naar alderaan. (from lonita)

French: Je suis un membre du sénat impérial sur une mission diplomatique vers Alderaan. (from cyan_blue and agirlnamedluna)

German: Ich bin ein Mitglied des Kaiserlichen Senats und auf einer diplomatischen Mission nach Alderaan. (from lennongirl via rubian77 and auton)

Greek: Ego ema melos tis aftogratorekes yeroseaas apo ti deplomatiki apo sto le to Alderaan. (from rubian77)

Hebrew: אני חבר בסנאט הקיסרי במשימה דיפלומטית לאלדראאן (Ani haver ba senat ha kaysari be mesima diplomatit le Alderaan.) (from gutman)

Italian: Sono un membro del senato imperiale su una missione diplomatica a Alderaan. (from weyrdbird)

Japanese: 私は帝国の上院の会員でアデラーンへ外交上のミッションです。 (Watashi wa teikoku no jouin no kai'in de aderaan e gaikoujou no misshon desu.) (from sabishi and mentalmakeup)

Klingon: yaSwo'rIp jIH gharQu'Daq alDeranDaq. (from zlana)

Latin: Ego sum legatus Senatus Imperii in negotio ad Alderaanem. (from tinkerer)

Norwegian: Jeg er en representant av rikssenatet i et diplomatiske sendelag til Alderaan. (from the_mind_of_gil, via rubian77)

Portuguese: Eu sou um mebro do senate imperial em missao diplomatic a Alderaan. (from weyrdbird)

Russian: Я представитель Имперского Сената на дипломатической миссии в Алдераан. (Ya predstavitel' Imperskovo Senata na diplomaticheskoy missii v Alderaan.) (from bookkeeper)

Spanish: Soy un miembro del Senado Imperial en una misión diplomática para Alderaan. (from puffdoggydaddy and zarhooie)

Swedish: Jag är en medlem av den Kejserlige Senaten på diplomatmission till Alderaan. (from juuro)

Welsh: Yr wyf yn aelod o'r Senedd Ymerodrol ar berwyl llysgenhadol i Alderaan. (from daev)

Zulu: Ngi hlanganile ngo inkosi mbizo ne msebenzi ga hulman ngo Alderaan. (from belgatherial)

Can you help, either with new translations of with corrections to the above? New contributions will be added as they become available, with credit to the relevant posters. Thank you to all those who've already contributed! (Also, if you're of a mind to pimp this out, feel free. shadesong, if you mention it, I'll be deluged, which would be a good thing. A brain-mulching thing, but a good thing. EDIT: Thanks for the mention!)

Comments

Here's three:)

[weyrdbird.livejournal.com]

Can't vouch for accuracy as they were bounced off ye olde translation widget:

Dutch: Ik ben een lid van de Keizersenaat op een diplomatieke opdracht aan Alderaan.

Portuguese: Eu sou um mebro do senate imperial em missao diplomatic a Alderaan.

Italian:Sono un membro del senato imperiale su una missione diplomatica a Alderaan.

[tinkerer.livejournal.com]

How's this one? (My Latin is quite rusty, so if anyone feels like correcting me, I will take no offense. ;)

Ego sum legatus Senatus Imperii in negotio a Alderaane.

[mentalmakeup.livejournal.com]

Ok, my Japanese is absolutely beginners, but I think I at least get the sentence structure; anyone with better Japanese should immediately correct me and I will commit the appropriate ritual suicide.

Watashi-wa inperiaru menba-jouin-des o misshon seijiteki ni Aderaan.

Rather formal Welsh

[daev.livejournal.com]

Yr wyf yn aelod o'r Senedd Ymerodrol ar berwyl llysgenhadol i Alderaan.

[tinkerer.livejournal.com]

Whoops... slight change.

Ego sum legatus Senatus Imperii in negotio ad Alderaanem.

(The wife wouldn't let me get up in the middle of the night to post this... ;)

Re: Here's three:)

[rubian77.livejournal.com]

My Italian is sporadic at best, but that certainly looks right...

[rubian77.livejournal.com]

You've got to credit lennongirl for the German translation, actually. :)

[juuro.livejournal.com]

Swedish: Jag är en medlem av den Kejserlige Senaten på diplomatmission till Alderaan. (Approximately; my Swedish is poorer than my English).

Finnish: Olen Keisarillisen Senaatin jäsen diplomaattitehtävässä Alderaaniin.

- o -

I wonder about that German. "Imperialistisch" tends to sound to me more like "imperialistic" than "imperial". But my German is even poorer than my Swedish.

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

Ic eom Þegn caserlices gemotes ærendiende fram Alderaan.- Anglo Saxon

i think. I've never composed a full sentence before (only translated out of it). However, that should be readable to an anglo-saxonist.

[agirlnamedluna.livejournal.com]

The Dutch is not entirely correct: it would be better to say "Ik ben een lid van de Keizerlijke Senaat op diplomatieke missie naar Alderaan"

Also, for the French, the "à Alderaan" suggests it's already in Alderaan, so perhaps "vers Alderaan" is better.

[ysabel.livejournal.com]

I really, really want to write you translations of the statement in a couple of programming languages. (Yes, it would look very different in Prolog vs. Lisp or Scheme vs. a C-like language.) But it seems like that might be some ways off the idea...

[ex-bookkeep.livejournal.com]

Russian:

Я представитель Имперского Сената на дипломатической миссии в Алдераан

Phonetically: Ya predstavitel' Imperskovo Senata na diplomaticheskoy missii v Alderaan

[lonita.livejournal.com]

I had a friend of mine do it up in Flemish for you ... it's very similar to Dutch.


Ik Ben Een lid van den kiezersenate op een diplomatieke opdracht naar alderaan.

[auton.livejournal.com]

In Danish:

Jeg er et medlem af det Kejserlige Senat på diplomatisk mission til Alderaan.

Thank Shadesong for bringing this to my notice. :)

[auton.livejournal.com]

Oh, and in German, Kaiserlichen is better here than Imperialistichen. The former means imperial, the latter imperialistic.

[domani.livejournal.com]

Ubee Dubee (Remember, from Electric Company?)

-(b)I -(b)am -(b)a -(b)a m(b)emb(b)er -(b)of th(b)e -(b)Imp(b)er(b)i(b)al S(b)en(b)ate -(b)on -(b)a d(b)ipl(b)om(b)at(b)ic m(b)isi(b)on t(b)o -(b)Ald(b)er(b)aan.

**Phonetically pronounced:
Ah-Bye ah-bam ah-bay meh-bem-bah-ber ah-bof tha-be Ih-bim-peh-ber-ih-be-ah-bal Seh-ben-eh-bate ah-bon ah-bay di-bip-loh-boh-mah-bah-tah-bic mih-bih-shi-bon to-boo Ah-bal-deh-beh-rah-baan.

OK, so maybe it's not an OFFICIAL language of the world, but I didn't see it up there!

[mentalmakeup.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Desu is handy, isn't it.

The dorky, it burns...

[zlana.livejournal.com]

Ok, my syntax quite possibly sucks, but I need to drag myself away from this and get something vaguely productive done tonight.

yaSwo'rIp jIH Qu'Daq AlderanDaq.

In the original Klingon.



(..ok, the proper capitalization is probably alDeranDaq)

Re: The dorky, it burns...

[zlana.livejournal.com]

Shoot, I knew I missed something obvious from my scribblings. Kind of amusing, I left out the "diplomatic" part.

yaSwo'rIp jIH gharQu'Daq alDeranDaq.

[daev.livejournal.com]

Interesting. fram is "to"? I wonder how that semantic shift happened...

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

nope, my mistake. to alderaaane
i put in the wrong preposition and forgot the dative case on the noun.

Re: The dorky, it burns...

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

Oh. My. God. Is it okay if I follow you around and, like, worship you and stuff?

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Sadly, the only Russian I remember from four college semesters is "hello," "goodbye," "please/you're welcome," "thank you," "yes," "no," "I live in a dormitory" and "walrus prick."

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

Ye gods, I love my friends. Thank you!

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

And thank you, good sir, for you work! Magnificent.

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

Lovely! Thank you!

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

At this point? Go for it. Even if it doesn't end up on the main list, I'm curious to see how you'd implement this.

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

I've made the necessary corrections; thank you for the heads-up! (If memory serves, the Dutch was from a translation-bot)

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

This one officially qualifies as "language I never thought I'd see implemented in this project." Thank you, comrade!

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

Excellent! Thank you! (The German has also been revised; see reply below.)

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

Done. Thanks again!

Re: Rather formal Welsh

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

Well, it's a rather formal statement. Thank you so much! I knew I could count on you. (Anna: "He translated it into Welsh?" Me: "Yup. Now it's a quote from Lleia.")

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

This rocks six ways 'til Sunday. Thank you!

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

And thank you!

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

no trouble!

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

Your wife apparently doesn't understand project obsessions. Thank you!

Re: Here's three:)

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

An excellent start! Thanks!

[tinkerer.livejournal.com]

Not a problem.

I'm surprised that no one has volunteered an Esperanto translation yet... one web-bot gave me "Mi estas membro de la Imperia Senato sur diplomatia misio Alderaan"

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

...how does one say "walrus prick" in Russian?

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

That looks about right, from what little I remeber of the language. Thanks again!

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

Okay, I am officially deeply, deeply impressed. Thank you again (and many thanks to your dad)!

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

If I'm remembering correctly, phonetically it's "khuee mar-ZHO-vuee," where "kh" is that coughing-up-phlegm sound, and "uee" is one vowel sound, like the French "oui".

If you do not currently own the International Dictionary of Obscenities, you really, really should.

Hebrow

[gutman.livejournal.com]

Ani haver ba senat ha kaysari be mesima diplomatit le Alderaan.

אני חבר בסנאט הקיסרי במשימה דיפלומטית לאלדראאן

Re: The dorky, it burns...

[zlana.livejournal.com]

*giggles* Seriously, the syntax is quite likely way off, it's been years. But thank you! :D

[agirlnamedluna.livejournal.com]

No worries, Dutch and French are my mother tongues so it's easy for me!

It's all GREEK to me....

[rubian77.livejournal.com]

Greek, from my half-sister who is married to a guy named "Stelios" from Greece.

Phonetic, but better than nuthin'!

Ego ema melos tis aftogratorekes yeroseaas apo ti deplomatiki apo sto le to Alderaan.

[rubian77.livejournal.com]

Well, the German comes to me directly from someone who was born & bred there (lennongirl), not just an expatriate or visitor who's fluent.

The difference could be dialectical, or colloquial...you know how native speakers have different ways of expressing things than how we're taught when we learn the language...

Re: Hebrow

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

I know it's eight months after the fact, but going back I realized I never thanked you for this translation. Thank you so much!