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Elizabeth 
DNSISNT SFIRT
Psy Chuan 
Juho MäntysaloSure, but Egypt as a polity was 3000 years old when Ptolemy's line ruled it. So if Ptolemy's time was ancient, what were the 3000 previous years?
That being said, would be nice to take a photo from Victorian Britain and title it with cyrillic alphabet as "l'ancienne Angleterre".
Edit: to put it otherwise, Egypt is 5k years old and Ptolemy was 2k ago. If we were speaking of USA instead, "Ptolemy" would've ruled during the early 20th century.
Alistair K
jlapoutre@jlapoutre this comes from a History Channel show I believe
@Elizafox Tried my best reverse image search-fu (which isn't great) and only found this Reddit thread. No mention about its origin alas
https://www.reddit.com/r/grssk/comments/1j162j1/dncisnt_sfoort/
Neil E. Hodges@jlapoutre @Elizafox Sounds toddler level. :P
@Elizafox @jlapoutre So a Hitler-loving, ancient-alien-worshipping toddler, then.
@libroraptor @jlapoutre “Did Hitler order the aliens to build the pyramids?”
@Elizafox @jlapoutre ιnδεεδ sο, mγ βεlουεδ ςΗιlδ.
@libroraptor @jlapoutre indeed so, mg beloued sHild
Final sigma in the wrong spot hurts.
confused mango@Elizafox this makes me both happy and upset wtf x3
Timo Kramer@Elizafox oh yes. The She's Egyptian -> She's a Sfurt'er pipeline 😂
Simon dē Gulielmō 🐧@Elizafox The sound a malfunctioning AI robot makes.
Estel
The Witch of Crow Briar
SnoopJ
linksradikaler kampfläufer@SnoopJ @Elizafox @Daveography a latin professor at uni once showed us this. vspph, vphdph, vphcph, as julius cesar famously said
Sobtanian@kaffeehaeferl @SnoopJ @Elizafox @Daveography @Illuminatus
Slightly related: we see this in Arabic all the time. It mostly comes from the fact that the people making the tattoos can read the Arabic alphabet but don’t understand what it means, or how to join the letters.
The worst offenders are Arabic letters not joined up and written left to right 😅
Ari [APz] Sovijärvi@Sobtanian A Nordic favorite is also when letters like ä, ö, å are used in place of similarly looting letters to make it more cool.
Alexander Knochel
Jagna@apzpins @Sobtanian yeah all the not-Nordic bands with names written like that because aesthetics 😆 if my bf says it looks cool I will usually start pronouncing the *aesthetic* letters as I would in Swedish in an otherwise Polish or English word
@ilookloud @apzpins I’m assuming the letters sound very different to what people think they do?
@Sobtanian @apzpins most of the time they get pronounced the way they would were they without diacritics or other visual transformations, for example "ø" is pronounced the way "o" would in the target language.
These letters' pronunciations vary between languages, for example the "ä" in Swedish and German denote different acoustic characteristics and behave differently in regard to neighboring letters. These are just letters (graphemes) not sounds (phonemes).
Also, general assumptions about the sound of different languages are often incorrect, Swedish "Göteborg" being a nice example.
(I'm simplyfing some concepts for the sake of legibility)
@ilookloud @apzpins I see.
In Arabic, vowel sounds are not letters but various marks above and below letters, these are generally not written down because you know what the sound is just by recognising the letters and what word they make.
Most tattoo artists don’t know that (because most aren’t Arabs) so you’ll see someone called Jenny who has her name in Arabic, it should be جني (jne) but it’ll be done like جيني (jene) which is pronounced genie.
If it’s really bad, the letters won’t even be joined up (all of Arabic is joined up) so ج ي ن ي which is the equivalent of tattooing J E N E and claiming it says your name 😅
@Sobtanian @apzpins I'm sharing your comment because it's informative 😊 but I know all that as a nonpracticing linguist and aficionado. If I had more spare time on my hands I'd love to learn some Arabic, at least the basics, preferably not MSA. But it's wishful thinking at best 😄
@Sobtanian > جيني
It's actually neat how the font rendering joins them like in hand writing.
The Other Brook@Sobtanian @ilookloud @apzpins Ah, got it. I had the impression the hypothetical tattoo artist had written it left to right. At least they got one thing right.
@theotherbrook @ilookloud @apzpins I was tempted to write it backwards also but thought I’d give the tattoo artist a bit of kudos 😅
@Sobtanian At least in Finnish the ä and a are different letters, not accents, so replacing an ä with an a is just as legit as replacing an x with a k because they kinda sorta look alike.
But that one letter replacement will absolutely change the meaning of words. The classic example being "näin" = "I saw" and "nain" = "I married" or "I fucked" in casual language.
Now imagine telling you saw your all your friends this weekend and then drop the ä dots.
Jouni Seppänen@Sobtanian @ilookloud @apzpins At least when Finns pronounce Motörhead or Mötley Crüe, the names might sound a bit weird to English speakers.
Spın̈al Tap is fine, though.
Simone Barbieri@apzpins i am guilty of this for names in World of Warcraft when the name is already taken 🙈
Titia Schuurman@apzpins @Sobtanian we always pronounced "Stargåte" the Swedish way for fun. (Approximately star-gaw-tay)
Tuukka RHow about the clothes' label "Napapijri"? It is the Finnish word for Arctic Circle, with one letter swapped for another for no good reason.
And then it has the flag of Norway.
@Tuuktuuk It seems to be a Swiss company doing Nordic weeaboo. No surprise they just smashed everything Nordic together and it was as authentic to their customer base as the tattoos in Kanji that say absurd things.
notsoloud
Oblomov
bituur esztreym@kaffeehaeferl @SnoopJ @Elizafox @Daveography
sorry about the profanity of my intervention but i&i see strong vibes of covfephfe in this one, couldn't control the laugh burst!
sorry about the profanity of my intervention but i&i see strong vibes of covfephfe in this one, couldn't control the laugh burst!
The Human Capybara@kaffeehaeferl @SnoopJ @Elizafox @Daveography
At least the car I saw one day with the plate VN VD VC avoided the trap of Greek letters in Latin quotes.
At least the car I saw one day with the plate VN VD VC avoided the trap of Greek letters in Latin quotes.
MacCruiskeen@kaffeehaeferl @SnoopJ @Elizafox @Daveography A jazz musician committed to the famous V-II-MMIII progression.
CoraxThe best part is how they messed up the Rho and fixed it by striking through the leg of the R :D
pmjv s klapkami na očích
tschenkel@SnoopJ @Elizafox @Daveography
At least it's unlikely that he will be bullied by his friends for it.
@Elizafox Do you have any favorite Cyrillic abominations like this? :P
dragonfrog@Elizafox apparently it's always been DNS for longer than I thought