I made this as a sort of a gag to put over the computer desk. It’s supposed to say something along the lines of “Keep this computer desk clean!” More or less.
(I asked a language message board for most of the translations.)
I know I screwed the Hebrew up. Hebrew characters are harder to write than Chinese (for me) but I know I screwed up the Chinese and Japanese, too.
The Japanese kirei ni means roughly “keep it clean” in abbreviated form, but more accurately means “cleanly”. No specifics, but as it’s on the computer desk (I assume), the implication works okay. I’ve forgotten way too much to recall how to render what you had in mind.
The German one is supposed to be long and old-fasioned.
The lower-right corner is meant to be Swiss-German, although I’m aware that it isn’t usually written.
I don’t even know why I made this. Nobody who speaks these languages is ever going to see it, but it was better than just writing “KEEP THE COMPUTER DESK CLEAN.”
At least now my orders have an element of fun to them.
I was joking everyone. I was just repeating what Cranberry said. I don’t know a darn thing about any of those languages there. Except the English one and little enough of that.
ACHTUNG! ALLES LOOKENSPEEPERS!
Das Computermachine ist nicht fuer gefingerpoken und mittengrabben. Ist easy schappen der shpringenverk, blowenfusen unt poppencorken mit spitzensparken. Ist night fuer gewerken bei die Dummkopfen. Das rubbernecken Sichtseeren keepen das cotton-pickenen Hands in die Pockets muss; relaxen und watschen die Blinkenlichten.
Kirei ni might not be an ideal choice, but a Japanese person would certainly understand what you meant with no trouble. A more complete rendering might be kono tsukue o kirei ni shimashoo.
The Chinese characters look more or less right, if a little scribbly, but my knowledge of Chinese is too shakey to know if you nailed the grammar. It’s probably fine. A Chinese person reading it would understand it alright.
What all have you got on there anyways?
I see
English
Hebrew
Finnish
Spanish
Latin
German
Czech
Swedish(?)
French
Russian
Japanese
Chinese
The Finnish text actually says: “Keep this place clean.” An accurate translation would be: “Pidä työpöytä siistinä.”
Hope you see the a’s and o’s with dots above correctly.
Kiitos ja kumarrus,
/Arto
Oh, and the Swedish says about keeping the computer room clean, so it’s takes a bit more effort… Desk in Swedish would be something like, “datorbordet”. My Swedish isn’t very good.