About a month ago we put up a video we made of Keynote slides showing how Lao language incorporates the word "heart" - "jhai" into many other words. That post can be seen here.
This morning when we heard James Cameron talking about his winning the Golden Globe for Best Director for Avatar and he was asked to say something in the Avatar language, Na'vi, we thought about how Lao language shared an important connection. What he said in Na'vi he translated as meaning, "I see you" which he explained as being much more than seeing someone just in the physical sense, that it was about seeing into someone one, respecting them and cherishing them.
The Lao too have a word for "I see you" which is their word for empathy, "hen jhai," which means to see into someone's heart, and this word is one of the words we feature in our original video. What we've done in this post is to include the video clip of James Cameron speaking the Na'vi words for "I see you" and below that is a short segment of our original video showing the Lao word "hen jhai."
So there you have the Na'vi and Lao language connection! And by the way we loved the movie. Great story, great animation and the message about the importance of connection, connecting with people and the environment is powerful. The blurring of the real and the imaginary and the material and spiritual worlds, really capture your imagination. It's a movie I know will resonate in our hearts for a long time...
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