Post #2693331

2026-04-13 03:50 UTC

This rainstorm has, as usual, gotten me excited to dig into the fancy writin' stuff – so please feel free to request words/phrases even if you don't know Latin. :) I've been writing notes/journals in Elvish *letters since I was a teenager, so am doing a little refresher to write more standardized script. For contrast, here's some of my usual chicken scratch. I think it's cooler with the tehtar (diacritics), like above, but my writing is more legible with separate vowels, so I stick to that...

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@alexglow@chaos.social 2026-04-13 07:57

Lots of input already, thx! 🤩 I'd like to check the sentence structure, as I read "keep" like A: A. to keep or hold an object *in a particular state* (e.g., "keep him calm"), vs. B. to simply "keep" an object in your possession or maintain it (secret-ly & safe-ly) This Spanish edition changed the whole structure :) Would love more translations! So like... does Latin have an accusative particle for "it"? Or can we just go like... "OCCULTUM TENE, TUTUM TENE" or "ARCANUM TUTUMQUE SERVA" or...?

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@jeroen94704@fosstodon.org 2026-04-13 04:49

@alexglow@chaos.social An elvish translation of my favorite quote would be awesome! It's by Pink Floyd: "It doesn't have to be like this. All we need to do is keep talking".

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@svw@fosstodon.org 2026-04-13 05:20

@alexglow@chaos.social I'd love to have "A little learning is a dangerous thing". I started my PhD thesis with the first two lines of this poem... https://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/Classic%20Poems/Pope/a_little_learning.htm And it's so very apt for many, many discussions!

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