naomi94 Newbie United States thepolyglotexperienc Joined 4673 days ago 17 posts - 15 votes Studies: Swedish, French
| Message 1 of 6 01 November 2012 at 6:22am | IP Logged |
Nouns Associated With Fall – List. Hi everyone, I have a list of words that I would
like to translate into various languages. They are all associated with Fall. I made a
list like this before and it looked very cool. Please translate these 14 words into any
language of your choice.
1. November
2. Turkey
3. cranberry sauce
4. apple pie
5. crops
6. feast
7. corn
8. maple
9. pear
10. season
11. haunted
12. orange
13. red
14. ripe
I included an image of my previous list.
If the image does not work, go to my profile, the blog is linked.
Cheers!
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Edited by naomi94 on 01 November 2012 at 6:23am
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TixhiiDon Tetraglot Senior Member Japan Joined 5478 days ago 772 posts - 1474 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese, German, Russian Studies: Georgian
| Message 2 of 6 01 November 2012 at 7:52am | IP Logged |
It's a nice list, but these are words that are associated with "fall" in only one country
in the entire world!
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Mooby Senior Member Scotland Joined 6119 days ago 707 posts - 1220 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Polish
| Message 3 of 6 01 November 2012 at 8:42am | IP Logged |
POLISH:
Autumn / Fall - Jesień
1. Listopad
2. Indyk
3. Sos żurawinowy
4. Placek jablkowy
5. Rośliny uprawne [Plon = 'harvest']
6. Uczta [meal] + Święto [holiday]
7. Kukurydza [maize]
8. Klon
9. Gruszka
10. Sezon
11. Nawiedzony
12. Pomarańczowy
13. Czerwony
14. Dojrzały
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patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7029 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map
| Message 4 of 6 02 November 2012 at 9:33pm | IP Logged |
To the OP: I'm not trying to derail the thread, and I've probably missed the reason for your request, but why do you need our help to translate these words? Surely Google translate can handle single words in many different languages. It's not as if you're asking for a sentence or even a paragraph to be translated.
TixhiiDon wrote:
It's a nice list, but these are words that are associated with "fall" in only one country in the entire world! |
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On this note, how many English-speaking countries use "fall" rather than "autumn"?
Edited by patuco on 02 November 2012 at 9:35pm
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hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5144 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe
| Message 5 of 6 02 November 2012 at 9:51pm | IP Logged |
Ah, the power of single word, out-of-context word translation.
In Turkish, it's Türkiye. Oh, you mean the other turkey. Well, that would be hindi.
I wonder what it's called in... Hindi?
(Sorry, couldn't resist.)
R.
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iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5276 days ago 2241 posts - 6731 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French)
| Message 6 of 6 02 November 2012 at 10:23pm | IP Logged |
patuco wrote:
...On this note, how many English-speaking countries use "fall" rather than "autumn"? |
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Many Brits and Aussies I've met have been curious about this. Centuries ago "fall" was common in England. Now, it is only used in the US. According to Online Etymology:
Online Etymology wrote:
Sense of "autumn" (now only in U.S.) is 1660s, short for fall of the leaf (1540s). |
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When you think about it "fall" serves as a nice counterpoint to "spring". American English has preserved many words that were once common in British English. I used to accuse my English friends of always preferring a Latin origin word instead of the English alternative.
I always referred to autumn as "the fall of the year". In US English "autumn" is used as well but when given a choice between a Latin-based word and an English one, the English one is generally preferred in my former region of the US. Here in the tropics we don't have autumn, just summer. What we call "winter" would be a glorious summer in many parts of the temperate zone. Nothing "falls" here except coconuts and you wouldn't want to be underneath a coconut palm when one falls.
Why do we say "fall" instead of "autumn"
Edited by iguanamon on 02 November 2012 at 10:34pm
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