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Cardinal Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti is said to have spoken 40 languages. Part of his secret was being able to translate his opener, I mean the Lord's Prayer into all of those languages.

From a polyglot perspective, knowing a prayer or a popular song in many languages is a way to understand how the language works. Multiple articles, tenses, irregular words, etc

But Cardinal must have had a very seductive rap, the inherent message of the opener and his transition was field tested on many different people of many different cultures and tongues.

His message had universal appeal at a base level. Arguably the personality of a missionary, the sense of righteousness and conviction play a part in the conversion game.

Can we develop a Player's Prayer that basically hits the right universal notes?

WIA

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You could translate this phrase into all the languages of hot chicks everywhere:

"Where you wanna have sex at?"

Not only are you being direct, but you are ending the sentence in a proposition.

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(01-07-2016 09:30 AM)WestIndianArchie Wrote:  the inherent message of the opener and his transition was field tested on many different people of many different cultures and tongues.

The Lord's Prayer in Swahili (which was included in Civilization IV):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17svtURunUk