That is exactly the type of example I was looking for! I wonder if that’s common amongst books that are written in languages those regions?
Infrapink@thebrainbin.org 18 hours ago
Apparently the Hindi translations of tge Harry Potter books translate the Latin into Sanskrit, but that's more of a cultural thing, since Sanskrit has a similar cachet among South Asian Hindus and Buddhists as Latin has among European Christians.
rotateabull@lemmy.ca 13 hours ago
Tamo240@programming.dev 14 hours ago
Using Latin for Latin based languages has the benefit that the words feel appropriate for their effects somehow, since most people don’t know Latin but would be familiar with words that have similar roots.
Translating them into alternative historical languages gives the same effect for other cultures.
rotateabull@lemmy.ca 13 hours ago
That’s what had me asking this question, wasn’t able to articulate the as clearly in my big speel as you did in 2 paragraphs though haha