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[The Doctor]

So basically, I want to translate a phrase from English to a language-per-word. I don't have the exact phrasing that I want down, but it basically amounts to this:

What say you, world? To join together, in language, custom, culture. To welcome each other, and support one another. To bring us to new heights, to reach to the stars and to the soul. To meld into one culture, a human culture.

Yada-yada, something about joining with machines (that doesn't sound too cultish :U)

So BASICALLY, I need help! I barely know many languages, like maybe 10 outside Europe and the Americas, and I want as many languages from around the world (that make sense, and are spoken widely) as I can.

Can anyone help? :3

[Il Palazzo]

Could you clarify your request?
Do you need us to translate the text for you into any language we might know, or do you need us to enumerate all the languages we know to exist, or maybe something else?

[chaoticag]

I think he wants us to say that phrase in a different language. I'd do that but my keyboard doesn't have arabic characters anymore. Plus a direct word to word translation will either make that look silly, or a like a poetry verse

[Sappho]

I think a word-for-word translation into most languages would be nonsensical. You could keep the basic spirit of what you wrote, but it probably would lose that poetic-sounding sort of feel and you'd have to say it more literally.

[The Doctor]

Possibly. >->