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| Henkkles Triglot Senior Member Finland Joined 4254 days ago 544 posts - 1141 votes  Speaks: Finnish*, English, Swedish Studies: Russian | Message 3305 of 3737 02 May 2014 at 12:59am | IP Logged | ||
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| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5557 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 3306 of 3737 02 May 2014 at 4:04am | IP Logged | ||
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When you realise that one of the biggest buttons on your microwave says "Clear / Off", and wonder how this bold-faced insult was left unnoticed until now. Edited by Teango on 02 May 2014 at 4:05am 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| ElComadreja Senior Member Philippines bibletranslatio Joined 7239 days ago 683 posts - 757 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Portuguese, Latin, Ancient Greek, Biblical Hebrew, Cebuano, French, Tagalog | Message 3307 of 3737 02 May 2014 at 4:51am | IP Logged | ||
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Well, I meant to update it before, but here's the whole thing:
When the best part of the Once and Future King was the magic words of Merlin.
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 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6704 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 3308 of 3737 02 May 2014 at 11:17am | IP Logged | ||
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.. when you look up "Cabricias arci thuram, catalamus" because that didn't look like something invented by an American playwright, and you discover that the real source is Molière. And contrary to the person or persons who wrote the script for the Merlin thing Molière didn't have Google to find something he could steal.
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| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4910 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 3309 of 3737 02 May 2014 at 12:01pm | IP Logged | ||
If you are referring to the previous post, The Once and Future King was published in 1958. Well before the internet was available to the general public. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6704 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 3310 of 3737 02 May 2014 at 12:59pm | IP Logged | ||
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Apparently "The Once and Future King" was written by Mr. Terence Hanbury White, a British author, and this man commands my full respect for knowing that there was something useful to be snatched from the play of a French author (monsieur Molière). Part of the confusion is due to my distaste for a particularly inept TV series labeled "Merlin" which pollutes certain TV channels here in Denmark, and which looked exactly like the stuff shown at MTV apart from the Medieval setting - hence my guess that it was made in America. But in this case even this guess turned out to be wrong: the culprits behind "Merlin" are in fact British: Julian Jones, Jake Michie, Johnny Capps og Julian Murphy. In the Broken-Danish Wikipedia article about this series mr. White is not even mentioned - and that is for once a positive sign. Edited by Iversen on 02 May 2014 at 1:19pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6910 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 3311 of 3737 02 May 2014 at 5:27pm | IP Logged | ||
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...when you decide to read the Bible (for the first time!), and the language is Esperanto.
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| Henkkles Triglot Senior Member Finland Joined 4254 days ago 544 posts - 1141 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English, Swedish Studies: Russian | Message 3312 of 3737 03 May 2014 at 12:45am | IP Logged | ||
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...when you actually consider picking up a bible for the sheer reason of it being the single largest easily comparable corpus in most Uralic languages...
...consider... Edited by Henkkles on 03 May 2014 at 1:04am 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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