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

[melayneseahawk.livejournal.com]

I can probably help with the Spanish. What do you need? (It's been a while, though, so I'll probably have more luck with individual words than more complex ideas.)

[brainofck.livejournal.com]

I got some help from the Spanish speakers in the office. Like one woman's daughter used to say upa! and ma (for mas) and tete (for tetero - bottle) and popon (for chupon - pacifier) and titi (for tia). That's the kind of thing that interests me. Baby talk for baby words. Nothing complicated at all. At the moment I am just looking for ideas, as I don't have any specific anything planned yet. I thought I would probably build the scene around the results of my research. Though in the end I will probably only end up using a couple of words.

It was just an idea I had that I really wanted to do, but definitely couldn't execute on my own. You know?

[melayneseahawk.livejournal.com]

Mmhmm. And it looks like fun. I've always suspected that any baby of Daniel's would speak some sort of multi-lingual gibberish for the first few years. :D