Live. Move. Be. (language assistance needed)

Hawk Teflon

Hawk Teflon

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I'm working on a project that I just found out about, and I need to mock something up by TOMORROW ("wee"). The catch is, I need the phrase "Live. Move. Be." Translated into a lot of different languages. I know some of you know more than one language, and I would really appreciate your help. I was thinking of trying some of the online translation tools, but I also know that there are some words that translate different, and I didn't want it to say: "Live. Change where you live. Be." Any help would be greatly appreciated. Oh, if you could tell me what language it's in, as well, I'd love that. I'm not a great guesser.
 
Spanish: Vive. Avanza. Sé. (avanza in this case means learn, improve yourself, your skills...)
Basque: Bizi. Ikasi. Izan. (The literary translation of ikasi is learn but I think that that is the word that best suits the phrase).
 
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ilauzirika said:
Spanish: Vive. Avanza. Se. (avanza in this case means learn, improve yourself, your skills...)
Basque: Bizi. Ikasi. Izan. (The literary translation of ikasi is learn but I think that that is the word that best suits the phrase).
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Would existe not be a suitable alternative to sé? Though, I guess it depends on what sense of "be" is intended...
 
C2V said:
Would existe not be a suitable alternative to sé? Though, I guess it depends on what sense of "be" is intended...
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you could use existe, but I feel that sé is a stronger word with more emotional content. At lest here in spain we have different very used phrases with se for example, sé tu mismo, be yourself or sé quien eres, wich is similar to the previous one, and they both mean don't let the others control your decisions, express yourself.

A spanish spanish skeaker would understand sé as what I have just explained, but I don't know if a latin american spanish speaker would ( the same as an american english speaker won't sometimes understand a British english speaker). Maybe they use sé with a different meaning.

Existe isn't as personal and strong as sé. But that's just my opinion.:Drogar-Happy(DBG):
 
Live an Be are simple, but Move can mean a whole lot different things, and none that I can think of translates well to my native language. You should have chosen a less ambiguous word.
 
Cranky said:
Live an Be are simple, but Move can mean a whole lot different things, and none that I can think of translates well to my native language. You should have chosen a less ambiguous word.
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It's from the higher ups. I had no say in it.

Move, in the sense of moving forward / progression
 
groveChuck said:
Latin?
(disclaimer: I looked it up)

Ago... Permoveo... Existo
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Is this like Spanish where the 'o' at the end references something oneself does? For example, I was told that vivo is Spanish for Live, but I also recall from Spanish class that means "I live" ... that's not quite what I'm looking for. I believe vive is acyually closer. So would that be Age Permove Existe in Latin? Ideas?
 
In Quechua:

Kawsakuy. Puriy. Kakuy.

But these have shades of meaning, especially "move", as discussed above.... but this is closest to "move forward... progress"... if you just want "move around", maybe something like "kuyurpariy"
 
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Japanese:
Live: Ikiru 　生きる
Move (assuming you mean intransitive verb "move your own body" rather than transitive "move+something": ugoku　 動く
Be: seizon suru 　生存する
 
here's my sorry attempt at German:

Leben. Gehen. Sein.


Don't use it until somebody else confirms it.


edit: google says it's "Leben. Bewegen. Sein."
 
Hawk Teflon said:
Is this like Spanish where the 'o' at the end references something oneself does? For example, I was told that vivo is Spanish for Live, but I also recall from Spanish class that means "I live" ... that's not quite what I'm looking for. I believe vive is acyually closer. So would that be Age Permove Existe in Latin? Ideas?
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I don't think so, I think it's the infinitive (root) form...
I think, (therefore I Google...)
Or is it I Google, therefore I am???
 
That's not a "less than" symbol, bro, it just looks similar. That's a japanese hiragana character, sounds like "ku" in Kubrick. Dictionary form of Japanese verbs end in "u" sound, so you see with the three words. Hiragana are used for word endings to conjugate the kanji (Chinese characters) in the verb stem.
 
In Polish.

LIVE - Żyj
MOVE - Brnij (this does not literally mean 'move' but is MUCH more fitted to go with the idea of progress, as you've mentioned in your post)
BE - Bądź
 
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