Post by reden on Apr 6, 2021 19:01:52 GMT
Someday, if not even today, people that speak other languages will use the Holo-Stones.
While the Repeater understands all languages perfectly fine, and if you connect to the Holo-Stones with Intention it/they also understand(s) all languages, there can be an issue if they use written Declarations: does Holo-Stones need to be translated to the local language?
How would it work? Would the word order Holo then Stone need to be preserved? Because some languages natively use an inverted order, which would be Stone then Holo.
In languages that use other alphabets, would we require a direct transliteration or not?
And what about the logographic languages like Japanese and Chinese? The Japanese cannot represent direct vowelless consonants, and require a vowel to be attached. If not kanji (chinese characters), then it would be something like Horo/u-Sutonio.
A google translation gives me ホロストーン, which would be transliterated as Horosutōn. And that's not even accounting for the plural. Though linguistic plural doesn't seem to be compulsory in Japanese, considering how it's a heavily context based language.
Chinese (in this case, simplified), meanwhile has 全息石, quánxí shí. In the case traditional differs, though it looks the same to me, it would be 全息石.
As you can see, the various languages could create a confusing situation, or not.
While the Repeater understands all languages perfectly fine, and if you connect to the Holo-Stones with Intention it/they also understand(s) all languages, there can be an issue if they use written Declarations: does Holo-Stones need to be translated to the local language?
How would it work? Would the word order Holo then Stone need to be preserved? Because some languages natively use an inverted order, which would be Stone then Holo.
In languages that use other alphabets, would we require a direct transliteration or not?
And what about the logographic languages like Japanese and Chinese? The Japanese cannot represent direct vowelless consonants, and require a vowel to be attached. If not kanji (chinese characters), then it would be something like Horo/u-Sutonio.
A google translation gives me ホロストーン, which would be transliterated as Horosutōn. And that's not even accounting for the plural. Though linguistic plural doesn't seem to be compulsory in Japanese, considering how it's a heavily context based language.
Chinese (in this case, simplified), meanwhile has 全息石, quánxí shí. In the case traditional differs, though it looks the same to me, it would be 全息石.
As you can see, the various languages could create a confusing situation, or not.
