You were on your way home when you died
Tu est sur tu via dorm et tu mort.
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Tu: “Et tu, Brutus?”
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Est: “id est” / i.e.
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Dorm: dormitory/domestic
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Et: “et cetera” / etc.
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Mort: immortal
It was a car accident. Nothing particularly remarkable, but fatal nonetheless.
Id est uno vehicle accident. Null particularly remarkable, sed fatal ultimately.
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Uno: uno cards
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Sed: Latin for “but”
You left behind a wife and two children. It was a painless death.
Tu exit retro uno spouse et duo pedo. Id est uno mort sans pain.
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Retro: retrospect
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Pedo: p***phile
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Sans: sans-serif
So basically 11th century Norman with Middle -> Modern English sound changes ahah.
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Is there a translator or thesaurus for this?
It would be a great “Terran language” for a sci-fi campaign.unfortunately no, but you can use https://www.etymonline.com/ to check if a word is Latin/Greek origin.
Also, strong open source LLM might even be able to give you a skeleton to work from with the right prompting.
(Though you should double check words, LLM’s aren’t error proof).
Is that not basically what Interlingua tried to do?
You can get part of the way by just finding the morphological rules that govern how words in Latin-derived languages differ from loanwords in English, and applying them to words not borrowed into English. For example, the Italian word for timetable, “orario”, could yield the hypothetical English word “horary”.
Reminds me of Salvatore in Name of the Rose.
