What the alphabet is the problem?

Steinar · Post by **Steinar** » Sun Jun 17, 2001 6:02 am

In todays comic, the translation in the first frame seems to match what is actually said. (It's a little bit easier for me to read than the finnenglish.) The same can not be said for the rest of the frames.I've not been able to understand what is said in the second and forth frame.My guess for the third frame:"But what the hell is hrawk-ptooie doing with the illness of the king?" (or probably better: "would ... do" or "can ... do" or even "do ... have to do".)The next sentence was harder, until i thought of "riddle". My attempt: "You are giving me a task high-priests, and no futhark have been able to solve." ("you are testing me" is probably more in the spirit of "riddle".) I'm not sure from where I have the connection
"unsinr"<->"able to", but it just seemed right at first. Now I'm not so sure anymore.)As a side note, why are you using "futhark" when also use the

Geejay · Post by **Geejay** » Mon Jun 18, 2001 12:29 am

Well if you are making it up, I suggest you write down the meanings in a notebook somewhere because there may come a time that you have rabid fans writing a dictionary for the gnomes of Clwyd-Rhan. <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/smile.gif">------------------
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Reinder · Post by **Reinder** » Mon Jun 18, 2001 11:41 am

The whole thing is improvised. Originally I was just going to have the gnomes speak in grunts, and have long grunts be translated with short English texts and vice versa. Then when I thought of what I would actually put in those balloons, I stumbled upon this pseudo-Norse as a solution.I threw in bits from other languages. "Ridlarmejdet" means "Riddle me that" and "unsinr" means "nonsense". Just making it up as I go along, really.------------------
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Dedos · Post by **Dedos** » Tue Jun 19, 2001 12:26 am

I just thought that was a bit of humor with the inverse proportions. I thought it was funny whether it was meant to be or not. <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/smile.gif"> oh well.. =)

Awake98 · Post by **Awake98** » Tue Jun 19, 2001 11:02 am

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally submitted by geejay:
The idea of a dictionary<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Yeaaaah <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/wink.gif">
Anyhow, it does seem quite understandable, this gnomish grunting - of course the way my mind works could have something to do with that... (Aaargh, I'm a gnome! So that's why I keep waking up in the garden with a wheelbarrow in my hands...) <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/biggrin.gif">d