Hey all. Haven't posted for a long time. My Internet time is mostly dominated by Eclipse Phase nowadays. I've written a short story set in the setting yesterday night. I like to think it's about sophisticated psychosurgery meeting political activism - it's an unique story made possible by the awesomness of EP. No repost in Croatian, since the story ( Read more... )

Liu Kang Shang Tsung Kung Lao Shao Khan Kung Lao Mao Tse-tung ima bungalov Liu Kang Shang Tsung čunga lunga achtung čang šlang ying yang pazi kume bumerang Stephen King Stephen Kong Mongolija Vietcong King Kong King Double I'm the King of Bongo Bong Hong Kong ping pong ringišpil Eurosong ding dong Beijing Singapur bling bling Sing Sing shaolin ( Read more... )

Je suis fier de dire que j'ai fini mon cours de français. Bien sûr, mes jours de cette langue magnifique n'ont pas fini, j'ai encore beacoup pour apprendre jamais pour pouvoir lire Baudelaire tout seul.

I won't translate this. And all you people out there speaking French, correct me since this is probably the longest sentence I've ever written in ( Read more... )

Već sam pisao o Namárië. Ali nikad nisam čuo da je netko pjevao o njoj.

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I already wrote about Namárië. But I never heard somebody singing about it.

I'm rereading Tolkien, and the old chap taught me a new word: flabbergasted.

From The Lord of the Rings, p. 30:

He stepped down and vanished. There was a blinding flash of light, and the guests all blinked. When they opened their eyes Bilbo was nowhere to be seen. One hundred and forty-four flabbergasted hobbits sat back speechless.

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Salut, my readers!

I had my first French lesson today (obviously). It wasn't anything fancy, we did the usual introductions, the alphabet, how to say hello and goodbye and all that jazz. So, my impressions:

The professor: A young woman (probably not much older than me, in her late twenties), with a sunny disposition all French teachers seem to have. ( Read more... )

When asking Serbs and Croatians to compare their languages, some of them say they're quite alike. On the other hand, the bigger part of the native speakers of both languages seem to see them as completely different. From a grammatical standpoint, the languages are similar, but not the same. The syntax and grammar are completely different, as in any ( Read more... )

Još jedna pjemsa Antuna Gustava Matoša. Odlučio sam da ću prevesti još jednu njegovu pjesmu, te sam pustio Nera da odabere koju hoće. Odlučio se za ovu, jer ga je privukla riječ 'smrt'. Tako je Homer Simpson krivo napisao riječ 'smart' u jednom nastavku crtića, pa mu je zapelo za oko. Nije da imao puno veze sa našim značenjem te riječi.

Živa smrt

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Namárië, or popularly called Galadriel's Lament, is a poem from Tolkien's Lord of The Rings. It's the longest body of text written in Quenya in his books, and because of that, very famous amongst the Tolkienist circles (and beyond?). I managed to dig up Tolkien reciting the poem himself...some people say that it sounds a lot like Finish. I wouldn't ( Read more... )

Here's a poem I translated a year ago for an online RPG I was playing. The game was set in the Dune universe (Frank Herbert's Dune...if you haven't heard of it, you should first Google it, then read it because the novels are a masterpiece), and I wanted that particular poem to be inscribed on the headstone of my House leader's deceased wife. The ( Read more... )