{"id":966,"date":"2008-03-30T00:05:51","date_gmt":"2008-03-30T05:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=966"},"modified":"2008-07-22T01:29:15","modified_gmt":"2008-07-22T06:29:15","slug":"how-do-you-say-space-elevator-in-different-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=966","title":{"rendered":"How do you say “Space Elevator” in different languages?"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>A recent post<\/a> I put up had as it’s title “Weltraumaufzug<\/strong><\/em>” – the German translation of “Space Elevator”.\u00a0 I recently discovered a website<\/a> that had the Croation translation: “Nebesko Dizalo<\/em><\/strong>“.<\/p>\n

It occurs to me that a worthwhile exercise would be to translate “Space Elevator” (or perhaps “Elevator to Space”?) into as many different languages as possible.\u00a0 I think that doing so might help us to internationalize the concept and broaden it’s appeal.<\/p>\n

To that end, I am making a request of\u00a0all of my readers:\u00a0 If you know how (or can find out how) to say\/write “Space Elevator” in a language other than English (or German or Croation), can you please email it to me at:<\/p>\n

(Ted [AT] SpaceElevatorBlog.com)<\/p>\n

When I get a respectable number of these (at least 30 to start, I would think) I’ll put up a web page with them and link to it in my sidebar.<\/p>\n

Please, only send me something that you’re fairly sure of – I don’t want the page to become a subject of ridicule.\u00a0 We all know and love Babelfish<\/a> to be able to give us a quick and dirty translation of something, but it’s not anything that we would use for serious work.<\/p>\n

Thanks everyone!<\/p>\n

(Beautiful picture of the earth from here<\/a> – click on it for a larger version)<\/p>\n

(Update: I decided to not wait until I have 30 translations before I put them up on the blog – by the time I have that many, it will be a big project and I’ll find an excuse to put it off. \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 Also, rather than make it an entry on the sidebar (which is getting pretty crowded), I added it as a page to the top of the blog – you can now click on “Translation Project” and see where we stand with this.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A recent post I put up had as it’s title “Weltraumaufzug” – the German translation of “Space Elevator”.\u00a0 I recently discovered a website that had the Croation translation: “Nebesko Dizalo“. It occurs to me that a worthwhile exercise would be to translate “Space Elevator” (or perhaps “Elevator to Space”?) into as many different languages as […]<\/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-966","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\/966","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=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}