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Request to speakers of languages other than English, French and German (lemy.lol)

submitted 1 day ago by shads@lemy.lol to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Hi thanks for looking at my query. I recently as a joke changed some writing on the board of a friends EAL (English as an Additional Language) classroom from English to German. She liked the idea, but using Google Translate resulted in an overly formal phrasing that made it seem more a demand than a suggestion or polite request.

So my ask, if you speak (or I guess write) another language I would love to request you take a moment to translate "Please stack chairs at the end of the day" into whichever language you can help me with, it should be a polite request though.

I'm really not sure what the composition of her class is but she is a fan of languages as a whole so even if it's not a language that is represented in her class I am sure it will be a bit of fun and a talking point to figure it out.

If you have the time and the skills to help I really appreciate it, otherwise I appreciate you taking the time to read this post. Have a fantastic day.

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[–] shads@lemy.lol 0 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

дякую

I have been hoping for a few different alphabets, so Cyrillic is perfect, just means I will have to work hard to copy it correctly.

May I ask is that a direct translation?

[–] Lysergid@lemmy.ml 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, literally says

please (будь ласка) stack (складіть) chairs (стільці) at the end (наприкінці) of the day (дня)

Ukrainian, like many slavic languages, has no articles and uses grammatical cases

[–] shads@lemy.lol 2 points 13 hours ago

Cool, I am finding this so fascinating. Thanks for helping and giving me a little window into a language I haven't ever had a chance to examine.