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Keep Hoping Machine Running ([personal profile] thefourthvine) wrote2008-03-22 12:36 pm

Help, friends list?

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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[personal profile] blackletter 2008-03-22 09:09 pm (UTC)(link)
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".)

[identity profile] toft-froggy.livejournal.com 2008-03-22 09:10 pm (UTC)(link)
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!)
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[personal profile] blackletter 2008-03-22 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
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

[identity profile] toft-froggy.livejournal.com 2008-03-22 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Oooh, you're cruel! *eyes you admiringly*

[identity profile] frostfire-17.livejournal.com 2008-03-22 09:23 pm (UTC)(link)
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!

[identity profile] toft-froggy.livejournal.com 2008-03-22 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] frostfire-17.livejournal.com 2008-03-22 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
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!