Translation for Original Language?

Adelwolf — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 10:21:31 -0800

How should I go about building a language <> English dictionary/translator, that can be used by one or two people via a computer, when the language is still a work-in-progress? My roommate and I have been writing stories together for a decade now. In the past several years, we have also endeavored to create a whole new language for a set of our characters. Language has always fascinated me, so I have tried to incorporate things like tenses and conjugation into the mix, instead of simply relying on word transposition.

The language itself has grown enough, in fits and starts, that searching word-by-word in the GoogleDoc that we transported our original Excel spreadsheet to is becoming tedious. I've been toying with the idea on creating a translator for it, to make in-story conversations flow quicker.

House Maerdyn had a wonderful translator, for example, that has since disappeared from their webpage. I haven't found anything as comprehensive as that since.

What I'm looking for is a web-or-network based solution that we can use to build/translate the language... that isn't *too* complicated to work with. And by work with, I mean create, not use. I'm willing to put in some skullsweat with tutorials and resources, but I have little experience with databases, and no programing knowledge whatsoever.

Suggestions? Any feedback from other language-lovers, world-builders, etc. is greatly appreciated!

Where'd Borges Get Dem Werds?

Rev. Syung Myung Me — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 08:56:37 -0800

On behalf of a friend, though it actually sounds like an interesting question and I think I'd like to know too: Could you put up something asking about whether there's a real-world source/derivation for the words "hron" and "hronir" used in Borges' "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius"?

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Translation for Original Language?

Where'd Borges Get Dem Werds?