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[thefourthvine]

I need translations (in any language - I will totally welcome things like Elvish and Klingon, too) for the following five words:

Welcome

Read

Listen

Create

Explore

Any bilingual/multilingual people out there who like to help me out? You'll get - okay. You'll just get thanks. But they will be very sincere thanks.

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[toft-froggy.livejournal.com]

Oh, is that a sigma? I couldn't remember if it was a big E or a big S. Actually that's better, because at least 'Stths' is funny. The universal language of snake, maybe?

[blackletter]

Greek Parceltongue!

[frostfire-17.livejournal.com]

*dies* your icon! is there context?

[blackletter]

It's a bit of Aeschylus' Agamemnon that's marked by crux desperanda (at least in my Oxford text). So it's like a double joke. Not only can non-Greek readers not understand it, but even the Oxford editor couldn't quite figure out what was going on.

(It literally translates to something like "the heart-devouring mind of pain".)

[toft-froggy.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank god, I just spent about ten minutes trying to understand that. I got something like, 'the heat-bodied soul of a wolf?'. I thought maybe it was a Sirius/Lupin Greek joke... (what? That could happen!)

[blackletter]

It really is an evil icon. Especially to use around Classicists. There's always the intitial laugh at the concept, and then an increasing feeling of distress as they realize that *they* don't quite get it either.

It's probably my favorite icon

[toft-froggy.livejournal.com]

Oooh, you're cruel! *eyes you admiringly*

[frostfire-17.livejournal.com]

ahahahahahaha WOLVES. Lupe! Wolves! *dies* WOLVES.

There NEED to be more grief/wolf puns out there. Like, NOW. I can totally see it! Medea: My heart is destroyed...by a WOLF!

[toft-froggy.livejournal.com]

It took me ages to remember that 'lupe' was in fact 'pain' and not 'wolf', and, there, I just forgot it again the moment I gave up Greek. Like it took me ages to learn that pocius means 'cup', not 'pig'. I never lived down making that mistake in class, though.

[frostfire-17.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I spent awhile staring at it, going: "The heartbreaking soul of pain? The soul-destroying mind of grief? Does this--what does it *mean*?" Awesomeness!

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

...Now I want a Greek parceltongue icon.

I love you guys SO MUCH, and this is such an awesome thread. If you'd been my middle school Latin teacher, I would probably have enjoyed the class a whole lot more. (But I would not wish that on anyone. Eleven middle school girls. It was...well. You can imagine, I think.)

Harry! Your tongue! It's in violation of several packaging restrictions!

[toft-froggy.livejournal.com]

I'm now dying at the idea of Greek parceltongue. It... it is spelt parseltongue in HP, right? Because I just can't get past the idea of parceltongue.

Re: Harry! Your tongue! It's in violation of several packaging restrictions!

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

*giggles helplessly*

Yes, it's spelled parseltongue in HP. But I will always think of it was parceltongue, now.

...Although that has creepy serial-killer connotations, now I think on it.

Still. Parceltongue. Awesome.

[frostfire-17.livejournal.com]

ahahaha yeah it is a sigma. I definitely had a moment of "Stths?" as well.