Wahawafe - a multilingual translation project

[Ingvild Roald]

And my choice of "we live on Earth" rather than "from Earth" is that the "from" would need localisation and directionality - rather impossible under the circumstances. Could have chosen "we live on Earth here" if that was your intention 

Ingvild 


> Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 18:39:43 +0530
> From: nik.azn at GMAIL.COM
> Subject: Re: Wahawafe - a multilingual translation project
> To: SW-L at LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU
> 
> Hi!
> My original intent was to keep the sentence both simple and
> interesting. And so, i would like the translations to use the
> inclusive form of "we". However, i think, other people should be
> allowed to interpret the sentence in their own ways (just like poetry
> :)). So, if you want to imagine aliens, you can! :-)
> regards,
> Nikhil.
> 
> On 10/08/2011, Charles Butler <chazzer3332000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > My point is "linguistics".  Each of the people who have posted with this
> > subject have pointed that out. Linguistics takes the "whole" sentence, and
> > looks at "from Earth" in the context of each language, just like your
> > original description of "and" which has a philosophical usage of "coupling"
> > two concepts. To say "from" implies a "to" and other alternates. It is a
> > fascinating sentence or you would not be getting such discussion.
> >
> > Thank you for understanding.
> >
> > Charles
> >
> 
> 
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> "We are humans and we are from Earth." in several languages.
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