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Howdy folks!

I have a crazy request for you all. I am going to be attending Comic Con here in St. Louis and I thought that it would be a great opportunity to market my video game translation work. I'm trying to get some t-shirts made with different funny translation/video game references. For example, I have been toying with "T.A.G. Translations - Yeah, I hablo Español." Another one that I think would be neat is to have the word "Zombie" translated into a dozen or so different languages, but I wanted to ask all of you for your distinct translations as I only work in ESEN.

So here's the question, how do you say "zombie" in your working languages? And if you have any other ideas for t-shirts, let me know ^_^

Thanks!


 
Tomás Cano Binder, BA, CT
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Spanish: "zombi" Mar 8, 2013

"Zombi" without the letter e is how it is reflected in the Diccionario de la Real Academia Española, which is usually considered the standard in Spanish.

 
Nicole Schnell
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German Mar 8, 2013

Zombie [ˈʦɔmbi]

 
Gad Kohenov
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זומבי Mar 9, 2013

Is the Hebrew rendering. Zumbi in Portuguese.

Suerte

D.F.

N.B. Yes this is Brazilian Portuguese!

[Edited at 2013-03-09 16:06 GMT]


 
Phil Hand
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Jiangshi Mar 9, 2013

僵尸 jiangshi in Chinese

 
Diana Coada (X)
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In Portuguese: Mar 9, 2013

''zombie'' or ''morto-vivo''. I think ''zumbi'' is used in Brazilian Portuguese.

In Romanian it's ''zombi''.


 
Dusan Miljkovic
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Zombi Mar 9, 2013

In Serbian it's "zombi" in Latin script and "зомби", in Cyrillic.

Maybe you should try another word, because this would to be pretty much the same in most of the languages

[Edited at 2013-03-09 10:39 GMT]


 
Jan Willem van Dormolen (X)
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Dutch Mar 9, 2013

Zombie, pronounced almost the same as in English.

I know, there was a time when my country was ahead in innovation...


 
EvaVer (X)
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In Czech Mar 9, 2013

we also say zombie, sorry, no special word for it

 
Alexandra Schneeuhr
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Russian Mar 9, 2013

зомби

 
Giunia Totaro
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Italian Mar 9, 2013

Zombie

 
Ty Kendall
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You have to love Chinese..... Mar 9, 2013

Phil Hand wrote:

僵尸 jiangshi in Chinese


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiangshi

"Literally meaning: stiff corpse".


 
Abdallah Ali
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மட்டுறுத்துனர்
Arabic Mar 10, 2013

زومبي

Pronounced pretty much the same as you do in English /zɒmbi/


 
Adrien Lambert
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FR: zombie or zombi Mar 11, 2013

Both spelling exist in French. The one with a final "E" is, I would think, more common. And I can see why: /zombi/, phonetically, clearly is a borrowed word. It is therefore used as such.

[Edited at 2013-03-11 00:51 GMT]


 
Sigrid Andersen
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Danish Mar 11, 2013

zombie (sombi) in danish

 
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