Language help

[brainofck]

I need some help with foreign language dialog for Skeletal Remains.



I want their baby to be speaking baby talk in many languages. Like how in English babies say "ba" when they mean ball, or bottle, or bye, depending on the baby. That kind of thing.

I'm thinking Daniel would enjoy playing around with languages at least two of the adults spoke, so that would be Ancient, Spanish, English (obviously), Arabic, possibly French, possibly Abydonian/Egyptian/goa'uld. And Chinese, since that is the language source for the local language Daniel is studying.

Anybody know Latin well enough to suggest something in "Ancient?" Or Spanish? Or Chinese? Any suggestions welcomed. I already have a wonderful person who has volunteered to research some Arabic ideas for me.

And if you have your own ideas about other languages I haven't mentioned, toss 'em out. Maybe I'll go that route after all, if I get something good.



Oi. Doing research for porn.

Comments

[angiepen.livejournal.com]

"Ball" in Latin is "pila," the kind of ball you play with, anyway. Although note that Latin is heavily inflected and that's only the nominative form. If you threw the ball it would be "pilam," etc. If you're taking the first syllable, though, as the baby talk version then that won't make much difference. :)

Any particular words you want? It's been a while since I studied Latin but I still have my dictionary handy.

Angie

[brainofck.livejournal.com]

Cool! Thanks! And that's plenty, actually, and a good word, too, since Jack might be talking to the baby about a ball, so it would fit.

Unless you know the Latin word for pacifier? :D

[angiepen.livejournal.com]

LOL! Umm, the problem is they probably didn't call it a "pacifier." Heck, not even everyone who speaks English calls it that. Don't the Brits call the "dummies" or something?

The verb "to pacify" is "placare," which is where words like "placate" come from. I don't know what they called the thing they gave babies to suck on when there wasn't an actual milk-bearing teat available, though. [duck]

Angie