Language help

Aug 23, 2007 09:56

I need some help with foreign language dialog for Skeletal Remains.

cut for spoilers to my own fic )

stargate writing issues, skeletal remains

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green_grrl August 23 2007, 15:01:42 UTC
Spanish (and Latin) would also use mami and papi for mama and papa -- I believe most languages do that, as ma, pa and da are some of the earliest sounds babies make. Asking for water would be agua, almost the same as wawa. If both the guys are papi, there's no difference. But if one of them decides to be Uncle, then the baby would call him Tio, or Tee in baby talk. Juice is jugo (hoo-go). Ball is pelota.

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brainofck August 23 2007, 15:04:22 UTC
Cool. I can see the raging debate now - When the baby says "Pe!!" is he speaking Spanish or Ancient? :D

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green_grrl August 23 2007, 15:10:00 UTC
Ha ha ha ha! And will Sam feel left out, if they're teaching the baby languages she doesn't know?

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brainofck August 23 2007, 15:14:07 UTC
Sam could insist that he just has a pee pee diaper. *snickers* Maybe I'll even let her be right. :)

I'm probably going to randomly assign Sam a language like Spanish or possibly French. Otherwise, I'm just going to have her be tolerantly amused by it all, and possibly keeping her ears open to learn along with the baby.

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angiepen August 23 2007, 22:35:16 UTC
The Latin is "mater" and "pater," though, so I'd think it'd be "mati" and "pati" if you're going to go that direction. [ponder] Although if you shorten it even more it's still "ma" and "pa" so that works. [nod]

Angie

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