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Translation Golf - Welcome!
In an effort to drum up activity (given we haven't had any in over a week), I present the first translation golf!
Before entering, please read the ground rules. The aim of the game is to translate a given text using as few characters as possible.
The first text is quite simple, it's the welcome text for our community.
Welcome to Languages & Linguistics, our community for anyone interested in specific (human) languages, language and its constructs more generally, or linguistics.
Translations:
- must be welcoming, ideally using common phrasing for the target language
- do not need to refer to the community explicitly by name, as long as they adequately describe the community as one for the study of language
- do not need to include redundant details (E.g. if you write "Study of language", that automatically would include "Study of language constructs")
As the community is still small, any target language is allowed (including English! Try to shrink the text). Translations will compete within the same language, just like code golf.
Abbreviations are not allowed for this challenge.
Letter counter for submissions: https://jsfiddle.net/2ermv0rh/2/
High Valyrian [conlang], 75 characters > Va Udrirri jemī jiōri, īlva lentun mirto syt ēngos udrirī se jāhe galryr ia …
3y ago
German - 63 characters > Willkommen in unserer Community für Sprach- und Linguistikinteressierte! Thanks to German …
3y ago
English, 31 characters > Hi! This site's for you if you like lingo. Notes: I consider Hi!, as an informal but …
3y ago
Japanese, 20 characters > コディダクトの語学コミュニティにようこそ！ I'm not actually sure how "Codidact" would be converted into katak …
3y ago
Lojban [conlang], 73 characters > fi'i lo bangu ja banske selci'i .i do selcemcmi binxo a'o la .banjybansk. Quick …
11mo ago
English - 72 characters > Welcome to this society for those into human speechs, their constructs, or linguistics. …
3y ago
Catalan - 117 characters > Benvinguts a Languages & Linguistics, la comunitat dels interessats en idiomes (humans) es …
3y ago
Swedish, 127 characters. Almost certainly a correct translation: > Välkommen till Språk & Lingvistik, vår grupp …
3y ago
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English - 72 characters
Welcome to this society for those into human speechs, their constructs, or linguistics.
I did these changes:
- community -> society
- our community for anyone interested in -> the community for those into. I belive being into can be considered a synonym of being interested in.
- languages -> speechs as speech is a synonym of language (according to WordReference).
Let me know if they are not accurate enough (they sound good to me, but I am not a native English speaker).
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