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[FearfulJesuit]

Sorry. The first sentence says "In this moment, I am euphoric"; the second says "Socrates died for this."

Surely people can at least grok the alphabet, no?

[KingofstarrySkies]

In unrelated news: It sounds like someone from Bay12 made something for the SCP foundation. If not, then I give the the title of honorary dwarf.

EDIT: Discussion confirms it. Magma carp made by a DF player.

My GOD.

[Vector]

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[DeKaFu]

Surely people can at least grok the alphabet, no?

That depends, are 1/5 of the letters are supposed to be empty square boxes or not?

I don't think square box is a Greek letter but I could be wrong.

[hops]

I seriously fucking hate how people on this board will post something in a non-English language and not provide a translation. Or much context. And then say, basically, "Read this, guys!" Or "From this, you can tell that (x)."

Like, seriously? It's fucking ancient Greek, and you're expecting us to understand what the joke or whatever is?!

Quidquid latine dictum sit, profundum videtur.

[Darvi]

Translation: Everything sounds profound when writen in Latin. Although you should use "altum" for this.

Y'know, when people complain about untranslated stuff, you should avoid doing this.

[hops]

Translation: Everything sounds profound when writen in Latin.

Y'know, when people complain about untranslated stuff, you should avoid doing this.

[Darvi]

Pfrrr pfffrrrrr pffrrr pffrr pfrrrrr to you too.

[TD1]

If the meaning eludes you, then look it up. I don't see why translations must suddenly become compulsory.

[Sirus]

If the meaning eludes you, then look it up. I don't see why translations must suddenly become compulsory.

Translating a bunch of empty boxes can be very difficult. For the sake of those without the proper fonts installed, please provide translations.

[Darvi]

Because a) it's mighty impolite to make others do the work (I should know), b) counterproductive if you're trying to get a point across, and c) "look it up" usually amounts to "go use a dictionary/google translate" and you know how that works out.

If the meaning eludes you, then look it up. I don't see why translations must suddenly become compulsory.

Translating a bunch of empty boxes can be very difficult. For the sake of those without the proper fonts installed, please provide translations.

And here we have d).

[Descan]

Because, in specific, it's ancient fucking Greek. Good luck looking that up, if it's not something actually written by ancient Greeks and being quoted. I don't know if Google translate has an Ancient Greek module, but I fuckin' doubt it.

And in general, it's just rude, as well as machine translation not being perfect and thereby possibly losing the meaning.

[TD1]

What is "just rude" is swearing over something like this. As for ancient greek, I was referring more to the latin and such.

No one should be obliged to post a translation. Either you care enough to look it up, you're curious enough to ask, or you already know. No need to impose rules on people for no reason.

[Baffler]

I agree the swearing may be a bit much, but if the person already knows what the not-english phrase means, what does it really cost them to post a translation too, other than a few seconds of typing?

[WillowLuman]

Je sais, non?