{"id":1058,"date":"2008-07-22T01:06:13","date_gmt":"2008-07-22T06:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1058"},"modified":"2008-07-22T23:02:17","modified_gmt":"2008-07-23T04:02:17","slug":"more-translation-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1058","title":{"rendered":"More translation updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve added three more translations on my Translation Project<\/a> page; Estonian, Esperanto and Pig Latin \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

The Estonian translation (and it’s English pronunciation) was kindly sent to me by Marko M\u00e4nd – thanks Marko!<\/p>\n

The Esperanto and Pig Latin translations came from some translator programs on the web…<\/p>\n

Tom Nugent, of LaserMotive fame, suggested that I get a Klingon translation – what a great idea!\u00a0 I visited all of the\u00a0web-based Klingon translators I could find and they either a) did not work or b) did not provide me a translation.\u00a0 So, all of you Trekkies out there, if you can provide me with a Klingon (or Vulcan or Romulan) translation of “Space Elevator”, that would be uber-cool…<\/p>\n

Incidentally, I’ve added a new “Post Category”, that of “Translation Project”.\u00a0 This way readers can see the evolution of this project over time.<\/p>\n

Two other notes:<\/p>\n

First, AA (who sent me the Greek translation and also the incredibly detailed English pronunciation guide), also pointed me towards a Greek-language article on the Space Elevator.\u00a0 You can find it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Second, one of the presenters at the conference, Dr. Karen Ghazaryan,\u00a0was Armenian.\u00a0 He gave a talk (“Stability of Superconducting Cable Used for Transportation of Electrical Current from Space<\/em>“).\u00a0 While perfectly understandable, it was obvious that English was not his first language.\u00a0 At the end of his talk, someone from the audience asked him a question.\u00a0 This person, I believe, was Russian.\u00a0 They quickly switched into Russian for their dialogue while the rest of us looked on.\u00a0 However, I was able to understand one phrase he used, “Cosmeecheski Leeft”, as that is Russian for “Space Elevator”.\u00a0 So this project has already produced a tangible benefit for me \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

22JUL08 – Correction:\u00a0 Tom Nugent of LaserMotive suggested Latin while I thought of Pig Latin.\u00a0 And it was Martin Lades, one of the Conference organizers, who thought of the Klingon idea…<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve added three more translations on my Translation Project page; Estonian, Esperanto and Pig Latin \ud83d\ude42 The Estonian translation (and it’s English pronunciation) was kindly sent to me by Marko M\u00e4nd – thanks Marko! The Esperanto and Pig Latin translations came from some translator programs on the web… Tom Nugent, of LaserMotive fame, suggested that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}