Timely manner meaning in tamil9/1/2023 ![]() ![]() While eek is a common enough expression in English, ayyee was the Tamil equivalent. Here’s how in Are you an insect? The very common expression of being shocked by an insect worked in English and Tamil: Here’s a sample of how we handled a few challenges. While some of them were easy to handle, from the perspective of a translation editor, Some were not. Animals, Humans, Robots, Machines, Wind, Ghosts and all kinds of characters that make noises! We did a few books focused on sounds as well. There were a wide variety of sounds in our recent stories. Some of them work and some of them don’t. But some of us use a transliterated version of the English sound word that we are translating. As storytelling and translation are equally creative and fluid, having defined dictionaries alone won’t help us much either. Though Tamil storytelling is rich, we don’t have such defined sets. In English there are dictionaries for Onomatopoeia which describe how certain words are used to represent certain sounds. We decided to take a look, how all of our wonderful Tamil translators have handled this in the last year. We work towards creating a matching sound to that, more than how it is written in the source language. ![]() Almost always, there is an image, where a certain character or event is making the sound. Can we write them similarly? These ‘words’ contain sound and meaning, both of which have to be recreated in a similar way. A challenge we face is how to translate the words that mark sounds and not meaning per se? Though an English Crow and Tamil Crow might make the same sounds. Sounds play an important role in many early reading stories, and indeed our stories too. Making it read like as if it was written originally in our language is an important aspect of translating early reading stories. How we reproduce sentences in our language that mean the same. Whenever we translate, we don’t think about how to transfer words, but the meaning. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines Onomatopoeia as: 1: the naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it (such as buzz, hiss) 2: the use of words whose sound suggests the sense ![]()
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