This one doesn’t make sense without (even more) backstory, bear with me please.

So a long time ago in a university far far away, I attended a seminar on English religious prose. One of the first texts we read was a sermon held by John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester “agayn ye pernicious doctryn of Martin Luther”. Being really invested in the ( Read more... )

After my pretentious rambling in the last post, how bout some shitposting! And when I say shitposting, I mean shitposting. Lots of nasty language below, skip if you’re sensitive about that.

No matter how indifferent y’all feel about the reformation, you probably know that it caused quite a fuss at the time. Luther lost a lot of friends about it and ( Read more... )

Soooo I have no internet for a week and the world goes batshit. Again. I'll assume that the batshit didn't happen as a direct consequence of my offlinishness. I'll also assume that enough has been said about the batshit so I don't have to try and sum it up now ( Read more... )

"palaeobiogeographic"

Well, that about covers it all.

I have a house that direly needs cleaning. I spend the kids' naptime in order to try and find out/reconstruct the Valarin name of Thúringwethil*.
I am totally a responsible grown-up human being. Sometimes.

(There is neither the full name, nor even the vocabulary for its parts. Diem perdidi. Does Þûhur-inigwî-þîlez look convincing? *squints*)

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Evening news item:
"EU law change turns longest German word obsolete"

Look, I'm German and I'll probably ignore boring legal news read about this law change in the paper tomorrow, but I'm pretty damned sure they won't put it in such an intriguing manner. Law turns longest word obsolete. Awesome. Or not, if you now regret the fact that we lost our ( Read more... )

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Felix is currently in one of the many "difficult phases" kids go through; among other things, he now gets really angry and throws a tantrum when we don't obey his every whim, crying violently, throwing stuff around and hitting people. Difficult phase for mommy, too, because what happened to my sweet-tempered toddler? :P Yes, yes, I know, part of ( Read more... )

You know your brain is a silly place when...

in the light of the papal election, somebody translates "You can has cheezburger" into Latin and makes it Potes habere bubula cum caseus and your first reaction is "But wait, bubula should be in the accusative, so, bubulam, and cum requires the ablative case, so it should be caseoAnd your second ( Read more... )

Non-Tolkienists probably won't want to know.

So, completely by coincidence and through channels that shall remain unnamed (*cough* dA *cough), today I learned how the Chinese translators of the Silmarillion rendered Maedhros in Chinese, namely, 梅斯罗斯 (mei(2)si(1)luo(2)si(1)Of course, that translates to nothing sensible, just being a rough ( Read more... )