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kcsgrandma
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0 posted 2000-12-20 12:03 PM


For You

At home
At church
At work
At play

Yesterday
Today
Tomorrow
Forever

Waking
Sleeping
Laughing
Weeping

Alone
In a crowd
In turmoil
At peace

Tenderly
Deeply
Passionately
Unconditionally

With my heart
With my mind
With my body
With my soul

Wherever I am
Hoon tane pyar karoochhoon.
Throughout all time
Je t'aime.
Whatever my condition
Tha gradh agam ort.
Whatever happens
Mai tumase pyar karati hun.
Completely
Ich liebe Dich.
With everything I am
Te quiero.
In any language
I love you!



Note - The languages are Gujarati, French, Scots Gaelic, Hindi, German and Spanish.  



© Copyright 2000 Marilyn Gordon - All Rights Reserved
Jamie
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1 posted 2000-12-20 01:18 AM


I don't know about the rest, but the English comes through great.  Great words.


Jamie

Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito. - Virgil.
"Yield thou not to adversity, but press on the more bravely".


Little_Spyro
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2 posted 2000-12-20 03:33 AM


I only know three languages, that's English, bad English, and Driigaran (dragon language!  ) But I think the mix is great here, even if I can't understand the literal translation, the meaning is, well, saareiooh (that's as close as Roman letters will take it, rough translation: clear, straight and undiluted).  

Little Spyro T. Dragon


Watching the poets
Passions' guardian dragon
Moves with the rhymes' flow.

Though my body be
Human, my heart and soul be
That of a dragon.

pegasus111
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3 posted 2000-12-20 04:13 AM


I believe you... ..sweet words..

the woods are lovely, dark, and deep, but I have promises to keep, and many miles to go before I sleep...Frost


wordancer
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4 posted 2000-12-20 09:14 AM


What a lovely and pleasent thought, all encompassing love for all.  Thanks for a so enjoyable read!

"Come...dance with me, into my world of words."

kcsgrandma
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5 posted 2000-12-20 10:59 PM


Prometheus - Thank you.  All of the different languages say "I love you."   I had a specific reason for choosing each language, but frankly only speak English and Spanish, and understand a little French and German.

Little Spyro - LOL about the bad English, but thanks for the lesson in Driigaran (I love new words!)and thank you very much for your kind comments.  

Pegasus - Thanks for the belief and your own sweet words.  

Wordancer - Thank you.  I appreciate the kind comments from a talented lady.

To love another person is to see the face of God.
- Les Miserables

Marilyn

Wikket
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6 posted 2000-12-21 07:00 PM


Goodness!!! I am impressed!  So many languages and I could only master Spanish and English...okay, not master, but get my point across by the end of the day!  Great emotion evoked within the parameters of this piece.  Good Work!  *clap-clap*
--Jamie     


"Who does not love the Titanic?
...We all go: only a few, first-class."
--David R. Slavitt, 1983

kcsgrandma
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7 posted 2000-12-22 12:45 PM


Jamie - Thanks.  Love is a very great emotion.   And thank you for your applause.  In fact, I got several of the languages from a web site that has many pages of ways to say I love you in different languages.  I just had to pick what I wanted.  

To love another person is to see the face of God.
- Les Miserables

Marilyn

kaile
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8 posted 2000-12-22 09:16 AM


well i got my daily chuckle from the way you used words in various langauages in your dedication...

whats the significance of using such languages...you got me curious here...pray, do tell

bestgirl911
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9 posted 2000-12-22 09:59 AM


KC...

How beautiful to read about true and unconditional love.....You've brightened my day.

Best

kcsgrandma
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10 posted 2000-12-22 05:17 PM


Hi, Kaile.     Chuckle, eh?  Well, the reasons are really quite simple.  The Gujarati is the mother tongue of the person it was written to, French is one of my learned languages, Scots Gaelic is part of my heritage, Hindi is because his family was involved in Hindi film, German is also part of my heritage, Spanish is another of my acquired languages, and English, of course, we share.     Besides, it's nice to have lots of ways to say "I love you", isn't it?  Hope that satisfies your curiousity.

Best - Thanks.  That comment brightened my day, too.  

To love another person is to see the face of God.
- Les Miserables

Marilyn

Suzanne Arlene
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11 posted 2000-12-22 06:01 PM


I love the way you put all the i love you's in different languages  That makes it universal i think   Suzanne
kcsgrandma
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12 posted 2000-12-23 12:46 PM


Suzanne, thank you.    I'm glad you see it that way.

To love another person is to see the face of God.
- Les Miserables

Marilyn

kaile
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13 posted 2000-12-23 01:15 PM


thank you for explaining, ..being a singaporean chinese, i will probably choose my languages english and mandarin...probably malay(since spore is multi-racial) and japanese(we are hooked on jap culture)

thanx for your explanation!

ellie LeJeune
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14 posted 2000-12-23 01:52 PM


Marilyn; This so lovely a poem...all the love flowing from one language to another gives a hint of the grand dream of a universal peace and love among all people. merry Christmas to you and yours! Love, Ellie

Belief is a truth held in the mind; faith is a fire in the heart.

Joseph Fort Newton



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15 posted 2000-12-23 04:43 PM


Awwww I like this, no matter how you say it it still means the same thing. Love the use of languages

Life has got to chnage,
Nothing stays the same,
Soon it will be time,
For me to move on.


kcsgrandma
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16 posted 2000-12-24 05:29 PM


Kaile - You are welcome!   Yes, that was the idea, to use languages that had some meaning to the people involved. I have a Malay friend in Singapore whose girlfriend is Chinese, and I can imagine those languages you mentioned would be very appropriate there.  

Ellie - Thank you.  No matter where we are from, what we look like, or how we say it, we are all brothers and sisters, aren't we?   A wonderful Christmas to you and yours, too!

Maria - Yup, that's right.  They are just different ways of expressing a full heart.  Thanks, and Merry Christmas.  

To love another person is to see the face of God.
- Les Miserables

Marilyn

kaile
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17 posted 2000-12-25 05:13 PM


Wo ai ni
Saya cinta kamu

love strikes
heartstrings tugged
void filled
desires renewed

why should love
pose any problems at all
when its recipients are
of ALAS! different skin colours?

kcs, i read your comment with interest...lets just say that it is rather difficult to make a relationship work in spore when the two are from different races...

kcsgrandma
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18 posted 2000-12-26 01:09 AM


Kaile, that is lovely, but now you have to explain what language(s) and what it means!    I gathered from my friend in Singapore that the biracial relationship is difficult. I imagine that can be true anywhere.  And it's not only skin color - it's cultural differences.  I'm a great believer that love can overcome great obstacles though.   I certainly hope so!

To love another person is to see the face of God.
- Les Miserables

Marilyn

kaile
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19 posted 2000-12-26 11:55 AM


hi kcs, Wo means i, ai means love and ni means you(mandarin)

similarly, saya(i),cinta(love), kamu(you) in malay




kcsgrandma
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20 posted 2000-12-26 06:06 PM


Thanks for the explanation, Kaile.   I love new words, in any language!  I'm surprised the sentence structure is the same as in English.  Is that normally so in these languages?< !signature-->

To love another person is to see the face of God.
- Les Miserables

Marilyn


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kaile
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21 posted 2000-12-26 08:56 PM


i am not very familiar with malay but for mandarin, the sentence structure does share similarities with english..though english may be confusing with its present, past, future, past perfect tenses, mandarin(thankfully) lacks such distinction....we use "jing tian" to mean today and "ming tian" to mean tomorrow...therefore tenses are not to be found in mandarin....
kcsgrandma
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22 posted 2000-12-26 10:31 PM


Thanks, Kaile.  Interesting stuff.   I have heard that Mandarin is very hard to learn.  I guess it must be something other than tenses that makes it that way.  Glad to know I wouldn't have to learn verb conjugations though.  

To love another person is to see the face of God.
- Les Miserables

Marilyn

nakdthoughts
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23 posted 2000-12-27 07:08 AM


wow..you  have the whole world in your love...*smiles*

~Wynter


"The worst prison would be a closed heart".
...Pope John Paul II



Denise
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24 posted 2000-12-27 11:32 AM


This is beautiful, Marilyn!!

Denise

kcsgrandma
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25 posted 2000-12-27 05:29 PM


Wynter -   The right person makes me feel in love with the whole world. Thanks for the smiles.

Denise - Thank you, as always, for the kind words.  

To love another person is to see the face of God.
- Les Miserables

Marilyn

Irish Rose
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26 posted 2000-12-28 09:02 AM


ahh this is so sweet, I love this

"Every man dies.
Not every man truly lives."
Braveheart



kcsgrandma
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27 posted 2000-12-28 05:36 PM


Thank you, Irish Rose.  You write very sweetly yourself!

To love another person is to see the face of God.
- Les Miserables

Marilyn

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