English To Hiragana Translation

[32 4whore]

Hey guys. Sorry for being annoying.

i cant do it on Google Language tool or any other site I can find.

Can anyone translate "Freedom Of Life" into hiragana please.

If anyone can point me in the right direction or translate it for me that would be awsome.

I apreciate your help in advance.

Brenton

[Rezz]

*snip*

ok heres Hiragana as requested lol

ふりーどむ　おぶ　らいふ

[32 4whore]

how do i change the funny characters you put up into actual Hiragana characters?

Or do i have to copy what you wrote into a language converter???????

[Rezz]

Aaaah, the first time I posted the hiragana came out correctly (as it is for me now, don't know about anyone else) but then I went to another thread then cam back to this one and the characters were all in wingdings and chinese stuff. Thats why I edited it... is it still showing those weird characters? Try changing the language encoding?

[32 4whore]

Is there any chance you could take a screen shot of what you wrote and paste it in here????????

Im a spanner when it comes with using computers.

[Rezz]

Ok heres a jpeg done in ms paint

[32 4whore]

Thanks so much Rezz.

Means alot to me mate.

Personal reasons for the translation.

Much appreciated.

Brenton

[akeenan]

why in hiragana?

i dont wanna be a stickler but id write it as ふりーだむ　：D

.....理由は何かな.......

Edited April 6, 2007 by akeenan

[Rezz]

i dont wanna be a stickler but id write it as ふりーだむ　：D

理由は何かな。。。

I just directly translated both syllables of freedom as they're spelt in English... one of those 'either one will do' type occaisions I guess. I wonder how many Japanese would get stuck on it wondering what it said because it's not in Katakana?

[Laurence]

I would write it like this 悠悠自適 ゆうゆうじてき

[SKYLVIA]

I would write it like this 悠悠自適 ゆうゆうじてき

Im not sure if that means freedom of life...

[Laurence]

Transliteration rarely works... so for me that has the same "feeling" as "freedom of life".

But the main litmus test is whether a Japanese person looks at it and goes WTF?

So anyone with a Japanese person near their computer should check it out and give some feedback.

[Intensevil]

Is this for a tatoo by any chance hahahaha

[akeenan]

if it is you should get this 馬鹿　horse and deer- the mightiest animals of all　

[32 4whore]

It is for a tattoo.

Personal reasons why im getting it.

I need to download this jap character coding thingy mabob. Cant see shit but boxes.

[SKYLVIA]

somebody needs to upgrade there office...

or something along those lines im not really sure...

ive just got Global IME, google Japanese Global IME, itll prob give you a link to a windows page

[Simbera]

Usually you need your windows CD to get the things, generally all the results on google are how-to's on how to install the language pack, not the language pack itself.

And, I was wondering if it should be in Katakana, being foreign and all...

<^>

[insanity]

well yeah.. it depends whether you want it translated in romanised Japanese (katakana), or whether you actually want it translated into Japanese (kanji)

In katakana - フリードム　オブ　ライフ

Kanji is a bit more difficult, but this is how I'd write it: 自由な生命 - Although I guess this would be closer to 'A Free Life'. Pronounced in Japanese as 'jiyuu na seimei'

What are everyone's thoughts on that??

32 4whore, have you installed IME yet?? if you're using XP, you'll simply have to go to your languange options in 'control panel' and add the east asian languages. you may need your CD, but I can't remember as I always check that option when installing windows.

Let me know if you can't see the Japanese anyway, and I'll put it into gif format or something.

Cheers,

Beau

Edited April 10, 2007 by insanity

[Beer Baron]

yeah i would say either way it should be katakana or kanji. not hiragana. japanese people wouldn't write western words in hiragana. be very careful what you chose for this tat. don't want it to bite you in the arse. or maybe even just get it done in english? at least then you and people around you will know what it says.

[insanity]

hmmmm... and funnily enough, now I can't even read the Japanese I just wrote... none of the encodings seem to work. I can still read everything in Japanese above my post...

does anyone else have this problem?

edit - seems I got it ok now

Edited April 10, 2007 by insanity