Hello! I'm a PhD student doing research related to Malagasy grammar and the examples that I can find in the literature are fairly limited and don't fully address some of the questions I have.
The questions I have would be fairly simple: partly just double checking the meaning and grammaticality of a few sentences, and party me asking how particular sentences would be translated into Malagasy.
Let me know if you'd be willing to help!
Another picture of my little male, Njaka, for anyone curious. He's a little over 2 inches long, so still just a baby. I can't wait for him to molt, is there a way to tell he's getting ready to do so? He's my first and I can't seem to find any info on warning signs of an impending molt, just what it looks like when they're in the midst of one.
Think about it. Basque Icelandic pidgin is only spoken in one country, that being [Redacted]. With Norwegian-Malagasy sign language you gain access to one of the most developed and culturally rich countries and Norway. Why settle with [redacted] when you can connect with not one, not three, but two countries! If you disagree then please change your mind. Thanks!
...lots of possibilities for languages here! Let's see some diverse favorite name lists!
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/Human_Language_Families_%28wikicolors%29.png Recently I saw this and I wonder, there is thousands kilometers between Madagascar and Indonesia. It looks impossible to belonging same language family, but it happened. I wonder how it is possible?
---Disclaimer: This is a continuation of a character sheet for the series There Will Be Scritches. It may not be to everyone's taste, it is not required reading, you will be able to enjoy the series having never read further. I intend to edit it as new characters are added and/or if details change. Characters are listed in order of first mention---
Name: Jeanne βBlitzβ Miyazaki
Sex: F
Occupation: Ambassador
Age (EEY): 65 (52 at meeting with Tcakqaal, 38 at Peace Accord)
Species: Human
Diet: Omnivorous
Manipulation: Bimanual (ten fingers, of which two thumbs)
Locomotion: Bipedal Plantigrade
Height: 178cm
Weight: 68kg
Hair Colour: Raven
Eye Colour: Black
Homeworld: Earth Cradleworld: Earth
Languages Spoken: English, Japanese, Russian, French, Korean, Tagalog, Swahili, Arabic, Navajo, New Norse (Icelandic, Faroese comprehensible), German, Spanish, Hindi, Telegu, Kazakh, Mongol, Farsi, Yoruba, Malagasy, Guarani, GB, GBSL
Sexual Preference: Straight Species Preference: Robo sapiens
First Mention: Pt. 6 First Appearance: Pt.6
Religious Persuasion: Buddhist-Shinto Syncretist
Familial Status: Married to Ez1026r583A βEzraβ
Alma Mater: Westminster College
Name: Ez1026r583A βEzraβ
Sex: None (male presenting)
Occupation: Ambassador
Age (EEY): 41 (29 at meeting with Tcakqaal)
Species: Robo sapiens
Diet: None (charges electrically by use of solar collection field)
Manipulation: Bimanual (ten fingers, of which two thumbs)
Locomotion: Bipedal Plantigrade
Height: 230cm
Weight: 200kg
Hair Colour: None
Eye Colour: Luminous Azure
Homeworld: Earth Cradleworld: Earth
Languages Spoken: All Known
Sexual Preference: Straight Species Preference: Humans
First Mention: Pt. 6 First Appearance: Pt.6
Religious Persuasion: Agnostic
Familial Status: Married to Jeanne βBlitzβ Miyazaki
Alma Mater: Westminster College
Name: Yetta
Sex: F
Occupation: None currently
Age (EEY): 25
Species: Pahadan
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I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
December 2021
Statistics for r/translator provided by Wenyuan
Closing out the year with the statistics from December. Hope everyone had a happy new year!
Overall Statistics
| Category | Post Count |
|---|---|
| Single-Language | |
| Untranslated requests | 1602 |
| Requests missing assets | 14 |
| Requests in progress | 1 |
| Requests needing review | 98 |
| Translated requests | 1733 |
| Multiple-Language | 6 |
| --- | --- |
| Total requests | 3454 |
| Overall percentage | 53% translated |
| Represented languages | 106 |
| Meta/Community Posts | 0 |
Language Families
| Language Family | Total Requests | Percent of All Requests |
|---|---|---|
| Afro-Asiatic | 235 | 6.8% |
| Austro-Asiatic | 14 | 0.41% |
| Austronesian | 21 | 0.61% |
| Chukotko-Kamchatkan | 1 | 0.03% |
| Dravidian | 1 | 0.03% |
| Indo-European | 829 | 24.0% |
| Japonic | 1364 | 39.49% |
| Kartvelian | 3 | 0.09% |
| Language Isolate | 122 | 3.53% |
| Mayan | 1 | 0.03% |
| Mongolic | 3 | 0.09% |
| Niger-Congo | 5 | 0.14% |
| North Caucasian | 1 | 0.03% |
| Sign Language | 2 | 0.06% |
| Sino-Tibetan | 607 | 17.57% |
| Tai-Kadai | 19 | 0.55% |
| Turkic | 20 | 0.58% |
| Uralic | 24 | 0.69% |
Single-Language Requests
| Language | Language Family | Total Requests | Percent of All Requests | Untranslated Requests | Translation Percentage | Identified from 'Unknown' | RI | Wikipedia Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adyghe | North Caucasian | 1 | 0.03% | 1 | 0% | 0 | 4.1 | WP |
| Albanian | Indo-European | 2 | 0.06% | 2 | 0% | 0 | 2.47 | WP |
| American Sign Language | Sign Language | 2 | 0.06% | 2 | 0% | 0 | 17.16 | WP |
| Amharic | Afro-Asiatic | 4 | 0.12% | 2 | 50% | 1 | 0.36 | [WP](h |
I've read that there are no ferries, but is there any other means of crossing the sea to Madagascar by another type of ship? Cargo ship? Charter boat?
Do your worst!
They were cooked in Greece.
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?
Two muffins are in an oven, one muffin looks at the other and says "is it just me, or is it hot in here?"
Then the other muffin says "AHH, TALKING MUFFIN!!!"
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies π
It really does, I swear!
Because she wanted to see the task manager.
But thatβs comparing apples to oranges
Heard they've been doing some shady business.
but then I remembered it was ground this morning.
Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale
Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments
This is for a story I'm making and I'm intrigued on the Malagasy language. Planning to make a language of my own for a certain continent in the story I'm making, and I just need to see if a phrase in English would 'accurately' (at least) translate to Malagasy.
"the child who stood with the land (or earth, soil, etc)" is what I need to translate.
The context is about a powerful child with elemental powers who protected his village from enemies. Thanks in advance!
BamBOO!
Theyβre on standbi
A play on words.
Iβve just discovered that in the Bazaruto Archipelogo in Mozambique there is the βVahocasβ people. This name sounds a whole lot like βVahoakaβ which means βpeopleβ in Madagascarβ¦ any connection?
