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Lojban [conlang], 73 characters

fi'i lo bangu ja banske selci'i .i do selcemcmi binxo a'o la .banjybansk.

Quick pronunciation notes: The writing is a completely regular phonetic transcription. Vowels are as in Spanish; 'y' is /ə/~/ʌ/, 'j' is /ʒ/, 'x' is /x/, 'c' is /ʃ/, apostrophe is /h/ (and always breaks syllables), period is a pause or /ʔ/. Accent is by stress, regularly on the penultimate syllable ("bansk" is two syllables).

Gloss:

[vocative tag: welcoming] a/some language inclusive-or language-science [swap subject and direct object]-interesting [sentence separator] you [swap subject and direct object]-community-element become [attitudinal: hope] that-named "banjybansk"

Translation:

"Welcome, you who are interested in language or linguistics. Hopefully you become a community-member of Languages & Linguistics."

Notes:

• This is not golfed. The main intent here is to showcase how Lojban works.

  • Spaces between words can usually be omitted; I'm too lazy to figure it out exactly.
  • I follow the "dotside" convention (names have an enforced pause or glottal stop, represented by a period, on either side; this is to allow them to contain certain combinations of vowels and consonants that would otherwise cause ambiguity).
  • I follow gendra (rules for new compound words that enforce how place-conversions are used, so that the place structure of the new predicate can be systematically inferred rather than intuited).
  • Especially considering gendra, trying to combine "selcemcmi binxo" into a single compound wouldn't work very well. Using a simple tanru like this is simpler, however, than filling the place structure of "binxo" normally; aside from being longer, it's awkward and unidiomatic ("do binxo a'o lo ka selcemcmi be la .banjybansk.", I think).

• Separating out "language" and "linguistics" would probably seem redundant to a Lojbanistani, but I wanted to preserve that aspect of the structure.

• The name "banjybansk" ends with a consonant, since names typically do so. It's intended to evoke bangu ja banske, i.e. something which either is a language and/or is linguistic in nature.

• The -sel- element in compound words is not really swapping "subject and direct object", but rather the first two places of a predicate.

• Attitudinals are free modifiers, roughly equivalent to emoji in written natural language except that they have a pronunciation. They generally apply to the entire sentence when at the beginning; otherwise to the immediately preceding word or concept.

posted 12 months ago

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Karl Knechtel‭

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German - 63 characters

Willkommen in unserer Community für Sprach- und Linguistikinteressierte!

Thanks to German for allowing to cobble together words. A literal translation of it would be:

Welcome to our community for those interested in language and linguistics!

Both the English and the German version have the same character count of 63.

posted over 3 years ago

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Zerotime‭

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High Valyrian [conlang], 75 characters

Va Udrirri jemī jiōri, īlva lentun mirto syt ēngos udrirī se jāhe galryr ia nūmāzme gūrēños.

Literal translation back:

We welcome you [pl] to Language, our community for anyone who would like to learn tongues, language and its construction and meaning.

Notes:

• "Va ... jemī jiōri" is a common phrase of welcoming
• 'engos' (tongue/language) is related to similar words about talking; 'udrir' (language) comes from the word for 'word', so these appear to have slightly different meanings, although they can both translate to the same English word

posted over 3 years ago

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Mithrandir24601‭ staff

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English, 31 characters

Hi! This site's for you if you like lingo.

Notes:

• I consider Hi!, as an informal but not impolite greeting, to connote both the greeting and the acceptance aspects of Welcome to.

• Languages & Linguistics, being a name, can't really be golfed as such, but contextually This site works as a substitution, and by metonymy includes the community behind the site.

• I'm stretching lingo a bit, but see e.g.

  the language and speech, especially the jargon, slang, or argot, of a particular field, group, or individual -- dictionary.com

  Language, terminology, or Dialect. Usually of a particular "Kind" or within a certain "group", "culture" etc -- Urban Dictionary

  language; words used by people doing particular job. -- Macmillan Dictionary

Alternative, also 31 chars but perhaps less controversial and slightly clearer on the study aspect of point 2:

Hi! This site's for all language lovers.

posted over 3 years ago

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3y ago

Peter Taylor‭

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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 katakana, since nobody told me how to pronounce it.

posted over 3 years ago

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Moshi‭

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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).

posted over 3 years ago

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3y ago

fedorqui‭

318 reputation 9 4 48 10

Catalan - 117 characters

Benvinguts a Languages & Linguistics, la comunitat dels interessats en idiomes (humans) específics, les seves construccions o la lingüística.

I translate our community for anyone interested as la comunitat dels interessats, which means the community of those interested. I belive it keeps the original sense.

posted over 3 years ago

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fedorqui‭

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Swedish, 127 characters.

Almost certainly a correct translation:

Välkommen till Språk & Lingvistik, vår grupp för alla intresserade av specifika (mänskliga) språk, språket och dess allmänna uppbyggnad, eller lingvistik.

And a somewhat questionable "golfed" version, 114 characters:

Välkomna till Språk & Lingvistik, vår sida för de hågade av specifika (människo) språk, språket och dess allmänna struktur, eller lingvistik.

posted over 3 years ago

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Lundin‭

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