Paper for translation

Solbusaur · 2019-05-12 19:06:24

If you use paper and then get a foreigner to use paper, they'll say the exact same thing, but in their own language. This means you can link up whatever you said to what they said. For example, if a sheet said 'Welcome traveller', when they read it, it could say something like 'Valsim kluxittur' (Or whatever the syllables are). Obviously that makes Welcome = Valsim and Traveller = Kluxittur

Using this, one could make sheets with the most commonly needed words, so that foreigners can learn what to say by matching their speech with yours. I came up with a list of the ones I can think of off the top of my head.

Directions: North - East - South - West
Verbs: Feed - Need - Kill - Help - Get - Farm - Take - Run - Die - Come - Am/Is - Make
Nouns: Fuel - Fire - Sheep - Compost - Iron - Water - Food - [Plants vital for civilisation, e.g berries milkweed and carrots]
Connectives: Or - And - Because (or 'As') - For

Example phrases:
If you need help with producing rope, you can say the words for 'Come Help Farm Milkweed'

If you're low on pies because there's no meat, say the words for 'Come Help And Kill Sheep'

Fire is dying, 'Need Fuel For Fire'

A mine is needed to get iron, 'Help Get Iron North'
Etc. Try and make these vocabulary sheets in every town at some point. Would help to have some more vocabulary in the replies too

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#1 2019-05-12 19:06:24

Paper for translation

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