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You were on your way home when you died

Tu est sur tu via dorm et tu mort.

  • Tu: "Et tu, Brutus?"

  • Est: "id est" / i.e.

  • Dorm: dormitory/domestic

  • Et: "et cetera" / etc.

  • Mort: immortal

It was a car accident. Nothing particularly remarkable, but fatal nonetheless.

Id est uno vehicle accident. Null particularly remarkable, sed fatal ultimately.

  • Uno: uno cards

  • Sed: Latin for "but"

You left behind a wife and two children. It was a painless death.

Tu exit retro uno spouse et duo pedo. Id est uno mort sans pain.

  • Retro: retrospect

  • Pedo: p***phile

  • Sans: sans-serif

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[-] mech@feddit.org 2 points 5 days ago

Is there a translator or thesaurus for this?
It would be a great "Terran language" for a sci-fi campaign.

[-] skedye@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

unfortunately no, but you can use https://www.etymonline.com/ to check if a word is Latin/Greek origin.

[-] FundMECFS@anarchist.nexus 2 points 5 days ago

Also, strong open source LLM might even be able to give you a skeleton to work from with the right prompting.

(Though you should double check words, LLM’s aren’t error proof).

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