I need help! For anyone who speaks a language... - ...other than English, of course

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid1]This is a desperate cry for help. I've been assigned to design a poster for my campus music group's Welcome Tea and it's due BY THE END OF THE WEEK. I am, to put it succinctly, [i:post_uid1]screwed[/i:post_uid1].

I've gotten a brilliant idea for the poster background, which is to cover it with the words "The Electronic Music Lab" in many different languages, over and over.

And that's where you guys come in! If you can speak a language, any language other than English, [b:post_uid1]what is "The Electronic Music Lab" in that language?[/b:post_uid1] I don't even care if the translation is a hundred percent correct; it's not like people will try to translate it anyway!

Dutch, German, French, Latin, Hebrew... anything and everything, please help me! :)

[b:post_uid1]THANK YOU![/b:post_uid1][/color:post_uid1]

[Gatac]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Das Laboratorium for elektronische Musik.

Gatac[/color:post_uid0]

[Alexia]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Being English I'm kinda useless in this thread...but isn't there some kind of translation site on the internet?[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Het electronische musieklaboratorium.

Or with capital letters at the beginning of each word, if you like.

[quote:post_uid0="taya17"]Dutch, German, French, Latin, Hebrew... anything and everything, please help me! :)[/quote:post_uid0]
Whoa! Did you really forget Croatian, there? :O[/color:post_uid0]

[admiral sab]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]El Laboratorio Electrónico De la Música


Ok I just did some research for you and google language translator and click on Babelfish something or other. Try some other different sites. I don't speak Spanish, but I did that one for you. ;)

Post Edit: Ok I did more work for you, don't say that your Admiral never did nothing for you:
here's the link: http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Dog-Latin:
Electronica Mvsica Laboratorvm

Pig-Latin:
Electronic-ay Usicm-ay aboratory-lay

Rat-Latin:
SQUEAKUM SQUEAKA SQUEAKO (SNH SNH SNH)

Sorry, that was Death Of Rats-Latin.

~Sa'ar The Unhelpful

Edit: Oh yeah, I sorta know French.

Le laboratorie de la musique electronique[/color:post_uid0]

[Standback]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Hebrew... hope this shows on the forums.

המעבדה למוסיקה אלקטרונית[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[quote:post_uid0="Sa'ar Chasm"][color=#000000:post_uid0]Le laboratorie de la musique electronique[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]I'm gonna take a wild guess here and say that "laboratorie", if it's the correct word, is female. Especially since it end in ie. Scary though, that it was just a feeling at first.

I'd look it up for you, but I don't have that particular dictionary near me right now.

And Standback, it does show up. Well... Something does anyway. :eyeroll:[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]I'm gonna take a wild guess here and say that "laboratorie", if it's the correct word, is female.[/quote:post_uid0]

Google search for "la laboratorie": 8 hits, none of them on French websites
Google search for "le laboratorie": many more than 8 hits.[/color:post_uid0]

[Standback]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]And Standback, it does show up. Well... Something does anyway. :eyeroll:[/quote:post_uid0]All right, folks... hands up everybody who knows how Hebrew looks... ;)

Hmm... 17, how many people in your music group know how Hebrew looks? :devil:[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[quote:post_uid0="Sa'ar Chasm"][color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]I'm gonna take a wild guess here and say that "laboratorie", if it's the correct word, is female.[/quote:post_uid0]

Google search for "la laboratorie": 8 hits, none of them on French websites
Google search for "le laboratorie": many more than 8 hits.[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]Okay then, not so scary after all. :)[/color:post_uid0]

[Marc]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]The correct formulation is "Le laboratoire de musique électronique".[/color:post_uid0]

[admiral sab]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I know how Hebrew looks! I took a semester of Hebrew and my professor was very impressed with how quickly I picked it up. I made the highest grade in the class. Not to brag or anything. ;)

LOL Marc, aren't we having a discussion much like this one somewhere else? ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[Standback]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Kewl. What made you interested in taking a semester in Hebrew?[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid14]Hey guys, PUNO HVALA! Or rather, [b:post_uid14]THANKS![/b:post_uid14] This is a really, really great help! Big hug to all!

Alexia: Obviously, you're unfamiliar with our "Fun With Google" threads. ;)
Standback: Yes, I can see the Hebrew! And I know what it *looks* like (my dad has business partners in Israel and he has all these Israeli stamps)... nevermind that I can't read it... it's just for the effect.
And Cat: "Laboratorij električne glazbe". *mutters about the genitive case* ;)[/color:post_uid14]

[admiral sab]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]standback: I went to a Christian University and they offer Greek and Hebrew. My last semester there I took the Hebrew course because I'd taken every other class with my favorite Professor and it seemed interesting to learn. I would have went on to take Hebrew II, but I could no longer afford college so I had to quit. My Professor was upset that I left because he said if I'd taken Hebrew II I probably would have gotten the Hebrew award at the end of the year. Sigh. Oh well, I still have my Hebrew primer and I've been teaching myself the rest.[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]*is in awe of Sab's language skills*[/color:post_uid0]

[Gatac]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Mad skillz, yo. *tries to unclench right hand from West Side pose*

Gatac[/color:post_uid0]

[Standback]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]nevermind that I can't read it... it's just for the effect.[/quote:post_uid0]
Darn. Remind me to write something more amusing next time.
"הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחדים!"[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Okay... What does it mean?[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Probably something along the lines of "Upomoć! Moja lebdjelica je pun jegulja!"... or something like that.[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Oh, right. I should have known that. :eyeroll:[/color:post_uid0]

[Gatac]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]It's all just a giant illusion anyway.

*sings along with Heidi* Everybody's tripping, it's all insane, but the voices in my head are sayin' it's OK...

Gatac[/color:post_uid0]

[Gatac]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]A different question, if I may: can we see that poster anywhere? A scan or something?

Gatac[/color:post_uid0]

[admiral sab]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחדים

Hrchft Sly Ml(silent)h Vtslvfchdys

Now I don't know it without the vowels yet. We were going to learn that in the second semester and I didn't get to that. I know the letters and how to say certain words. Like I read the Book of Ruth in Hebrew and understood everything. It's been awhile though and I'm out of practice. Did I get the letters write? ;) If I had vowels I could probably guess the word.[/color:post_uid0]

[Standback]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]All except the last one, which was a final מ, (written ם), not a samech (ס). They look similar enough that you get full credit.

Full transliteration, with vowels, would be: HaRachefet Sheli Mele'ah BeTzlofchadim .[/color:post_uid0]