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Would the correct Mandarin equivalent of New Earth/Terra Nova be Xīn Dì?

新地, yeah.

Thanks.

Zaarin wrote:Thanks.

You mean, xiexie 谢谢!

To be fair, I'm trying to find a name for a planet in a sci-fi story without resorting to the extremely overused Terra Nova, not learn Mandarin.

Zaarin wrote:without resorting to the extremely overused Terra Nova

How about calling it Newfoundland!

(Terre-Neuve in French)

That would be great, Planet Newfoundland.

As a native, it sounds okay, and has real-life equivalent: Novaya Zemlya is Xīn dì dăo (lit. New land island) in Chinese. However, dì is not exactly English "earth", it's more "land", "soil", or "surface" and less "planet" or "planet Earth".

M Mira wrote:As a native, it sounds okay, and has real-life equivalent: Novaya Zemlya is Xīn dì dăo (lit. New land island) in Chinese. However, dì is not exactly English "earth", it's more "land", "soil", or "surface" and less "planet" or "planet Earth".

Couldn't Xīndì be considered an abbreviation for Xīndìqiú (in keeping with the strong modern Chinese preference for bisyllabic words)?

clawgrip wrote:

Zaarin wrote:without resorting to the extremely overused Terra Nova

How about calling it Newfoundland!

(Terre-Neuve in French)

That would be great, Planet Newfoundland.

That could be interesting, especially since I already blew up the province (along with the rest of the Earth's crust). :p

linguoboy wrote:

M Mira wrote:As a native, it sounds okay, and has real-life equivalent: Novaya Zemlya is Xīn dì dăo (lit. New land island) in Chinese. However, dì is not exactly English "earth", it's more "land", "soil", or "surface" and less "planet" or "planet Earth".

Couldn't Xīndì be considered an abbreviation for Xīndìqiú (in keeping with the strong modern Chinese preference for bisyllabic words)?

That works for me.

kodé wrote:

Zaarin wrote:Thanks.

You mean, xiexie 谢谢!

You mean xièxie (or xièxiè)!

Vijay wrote:

kodé wrote:

Zaarin wrote:Thanks.

You mean, xiexie 谢谢!

You mean xièxie (or xièxiè)!

Oh yeah, forgot to write in the tones. Whoops!

Zaarin wrote:

linguoboy wrote:

M Mira wrote:As a native, it sounds okay, and has real-life equivalent: Novaya Zemlya is Xīn dì dăo (lit. New land island) in Chinese. However, dì is not exactly English "earth", it's more "land", "soil", or "surface" and less "planet" or "planet Earth".

Couldn't Xīndì be considered an abbreviation for Xīndìqiú (in keeping with the strong modern Chinese preference for bisyllabic words)?

That works for me.

http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Xindi

masako wrote:

Zaarin wrote:

linguoboy wrote:

M Mira wrote:As a native, it sounds okay, and has real-life equivalent: Novaya Zemlya is Xīn dì dăo (lit. New land island) in Chinese. However, dì is not exactly English "earth", it's more "land", "soil", or "surface" and less "planet" or "planet Earth".

Couldn't Xīndì be considered an abbreviation for Xīndìqiú (in keeping with the strong modern Chinese preference for bisyllabic words)?

That works for me.

http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Xindi

Despite having never watched an episode of Enterprise, I am aware of them--I'll spell it "Shindi," except perhaps once to point out its etymology.