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2007-01-06, 01:37 PM (ISO 8601)Ogre in the Playground
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- Mar 2005
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Anyone know any good translators?
Hi there,
When preparing my sessions or writing a background for a character, I like to throw in the odd expression or word from another (fictional or real) language. I use online translators as a basis for these phrases. I also find them useful for thinking of outlandish names, or as verbal components for spells.
So far, I've found translators for Latin, Irish, Drow and Draconic. Does anyone know any other good ones?
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2007-01-06, 02:31 PM (ISO 8601)Halfling in the Playground
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- Mar 2005
- Location
- in your mind.....
Re: Anyone know any good translators?
One that I like to use is wordreference.com , it has Spanish, Italian and Portugese. The only this is it does one word at a time though sometimes will suggest expressions that are used to mean that.
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2007-01-06, 02:39 PM (ISO 8601)Banned
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- Dec 2004
- Location
- The Mindfields
- Gender
Re: Anyone know any good translators?
This is the best one I've yet run across...
http://www.translation-guide.com/fre...ranslators.php
Has...
Bulgarian
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dutch
Finnish
French
German
Greek
Hungarian
Icelandic
Italian
Japanese
Latin
Norwegian
Polish
Portugeuse (2 kinds)
Romanian
Russian
Serbian
Slovenian
Spanish (3 kinds)
Swedish
WelshLast edited by The Vorpal Tribble; 2007-01-06 at 02:43 PM.
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2007-01-06, 04:05 PM (ISO 8601)Ogre in the Playground
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- Nov 2006
Re: Anyone know any good translators?
I'm so bookmarking that.
You know, I'm a bit rusty in my Latin, otherwise I'd give the wise-guy answer of "Well, I could be a Latin translator"Thanks to zegma for my awesome avatar.
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2007-01-06, 06:20 PM (ISO 8601)Titan in the Playground
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- Jun 2006
- Location
- Fairfield, CA
- Gender
Re: Anyone know any good translators?
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d20r Compilation PDF - last updated 9.11.14
d20r: Spells (I-L) - d20r: Spells (H) - d20r: Spells (G) - d20r: Spells (F) - d20r: Spells (E) - d20r: Spells (D) - d20r: Wizard class
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2007-01-06, 08:12 PM (ISO 8601)Barbarian in the Playground
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- Dec 2005
Re: Anyone know any good translators?
Last projects, from years back: Lesser Disciplines (Tome of Battle). Also, Never Behind the Curve (multiclassing).
Some of my current work is under the name IGTN on D&D Wiki
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2007-01-07, 09:31 AM (ISO 8601)Firbolg in the Playground
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- Jul 2005
- Location
- Newcastle, Australia
- Gender
Re: Anyone know any good translators?
Great Site VT
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2007-01-07, 06:00 PM (ISO 8601)Dwarf in the Playground
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- Nov 2006
- Location
- Goshen, IN
- Gender
Re: Anyone know any good translators?
People actually created Drow and Draconic as languages? Ugh.
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2007-01-07, 06:06 PM (ISO 8601)Firbolg in the Playground
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- Oct 2006
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Re: Anyone know any good translators?
Babelfish is great if you don't mind the whole "you're really speaking utter nonsense that can get basic messages across" proviso. For lots of fun, try translating something into, say, German, and then translating it back to see how mangled it gets:
Originally Posted by Babelfish
Originally Posted by Winterwind
Mewtarthio, you have scared my brain into hiding, a trembling, broken shadow of a thing, cowering somewhere in the soothing darkness and singing nursery rhymes in the hope of obscuring the Lovecraftian facts you so boldly brought into daylight.
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2007-01-08, 12:11 AM (ISO 8601)Barbarian in the Playground
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- Dec 2005
- Gender
Re: Anyone know any good translators?
Deathcow: Is your "Ugh" a response to conlanging in general or with making up those languages in particular?
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