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Outlines are fine, the tell is the utterly different lighting (could have been solved with a non-lightbox photo)
Really? I don't think it's even possible to fully relex English letter by letter without making something very unpronounceable because it is nowhere near phonetic.
As per a Reddit comment, it's really a conlang, just leaning quite a bit on English and other Germanic languages despite the apparent attempts to make it look all foreign:
Eh, Dovahzul isn't just a relex of English. Yes, it's isolating and has a Germanic phonology, but its grammar works fairly differently if I understand correctly. Verbs don't inflect for person or number and the language also supports zero copula. The language has no continuous and verbs with no accompanying auxiliary can be interpreted either present or past, as opposed to the present+future | preterite distinction of Germanic. You can also just use the participle inflection with no auxiliary to express the perfect aspect.
Nouns also can take suffixes indicating the possessor, articles are usually omitted and a distinct article exists to mark formality, and adjective order relative to the noun it modifies, as long as it is next to the noun, is arbitrary.
And this is just the canon stuff. Check out thuum.com if you're interested. I agree that Dovahzul could have perhaps been better done, but it is by no means a direct 1 to 1 relex of English. Sure, it isn't super complicated and in some ways kind of resembles a relexified creole à la Afrikaans, but it isn't devoid of creativity.
That said, this is a really interesting project and I like the Tibeto-Burman aesthetic, although typically monosyllabic morphemes with complex clusters is a pretty Germanic trait if you ask me
There's an entire dictionary and the Dragonborn song does in fact use these translations and the specific grammar. Yes, the vocabulary is such that the same pairs of words tend to rhyme as those in English, but that's a phonetic mapping, and the number of syllables isn't correlated as strongly as between other Germanic languages.
As for the runes, this comic uses simply English written in the Dovazhul runic script, possible because the near-1:1 mapping between the 26 letters and 34 runes (in fact, the only word changed is beseech → "BESEEKH" because of the lack of a "C" rune (probably not a concious choice by the comic's author, this font does c→K automatically); no runes that map to digraphs are used, for example your → "YOUR" rather than "YO[UR]". This can be considered a relex or simply a substitution cipher. If Dovazhul text actually quoted English words, they would probably not use the substitution, they'd leave it as-is or rewrite phonetically like Russian does.
o noble and mighty dragons, we beseekh you, grant us safe passage through your territory.
we are but humble adventurers on a quest that may yet bring hope to our troubled realm...
It's just a substitution cipherhttps://www.dafont.com/dovahkiin.font?text=o+noble+and+mighty+dragons%2C+we+beseech+you%2C+grant+us+safe+passage+through+your+territory&psize=xs
originally beseech but Dovazhul doesn't have a C equivalent; the font (below) reuses the K glyph
There is enough text, would be easy to decode with basic frequency analysis but searching among "cipher fonts" made it show up. I think even Google Lens (like @NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world probably used) could identify it
Also, how's the small Möbius twist handled? Just sewn on top?
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RNDr. Jiří Jarník, CSc. is basically a co-author with all these "(pozn. překl.)" and I think they greatly improved it. I don't think there's any other translation of the book, so I'd say the ultimate version is Czech. It's on my bookshelf too, no need to find scans online.
Here's a fun question from the book, shortened and adapted for modern typesetting:
Jméno kterého matematika se skrývá v rébusu?πrŘešení: https//cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/%4A%6F%68%6E%5F%4E%61%70%69%65%72
I rushed out the basics, editing the comment now. I've already written the ownership part but got distracted with what is now below the line. Come back in a while.
That might have worked in a comic with established antropomorphic animals, otherwise "goose at a typewriter" must be the joke or part of it.
The photos are the contents of the "CV" and "Reports" (basically resume and qualifications) folders she brought.
Per TV Tropes on Jucika:
This strip references the comic's change of ownership [trope page] from Érdekes Újság to Lúdas Matyi, presenting Jucika as a job-seeker trying to prove her qualifications to the titular Matyi and his goose [trope page].
Looks true, except "change of ownership" is definitely not what happened, Wikipedia says it happened after
in 1959, Érdekes Újság was merged with the Ország-Világ magazine
so the party was doing media restructuring, and Lúdas Matyi became the only explicitly satirical periodical allowed (and very popular as a result). This is the first Lúdas Matyi Jucika strip, marking the transition to color. Don't ask me what kind of contract Pál Pusztai signed or how much say he had, I'm neither Hungarian nor have lived before 2000. And Hungarian is Hungarian to me, the only bits I recognize are új = "new" and ország = "country", plus Erde is "Earth" in German so perhaps Érdekes Újság is "World News"? (Edit: No, "Interesting Newspaper") My qualifications are basically just knowing basic research techniques and the
xkbCombine key for diacritics.See also Wikipedia: Mattie the Goose-boy
I really like how the boy looks in the third image, reminds me of the 1973 Polish popular math book Przez rozrywkę do wiedzy: Rozmanitości matematyczne ("Science through Fun: Mathematical Curiosities") by Stanisław Kowal (no illustrator credited so presumably also him), inspired by Martin Gardner, which I'm very nostalgic for as one of my first "nerdy" books.
I'm sure this was a reasonably common style but I haven't read that many books from that era that used this kind of printing press so this is the reference you get.
The book's not as good as Ian Stewart's similarly-titled 2008-9 collections, there's some tedious exercises (optional, obviously, but "here are factorials of 1 to 20, will you please fill out 21-25 if you're good at calculating" feels like overly cheap content), but the translator did a great job, his notes are like 10% of the text.
There are viable stations that literally just play random songs from a playlist, jingles and ads so the bar is really low
Yes but I feel like nobody would miss that word if coinage now said "10 ¢" instead (or 𝐓𝐄𝐍 𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐒 because numerals are apparently hard). Saying "it's a dime" is shorter, sure, but that can't be said about almost anything nowadays.
Yeah, no coins feature numbers prominently (one says "dime" instead, a word nobody ever uses otherwise), some are near-worthless, the dollar is not nearly as widespread as it should be, the diameter is often not increaing by value (even within the same metal series) and the notes are way too similar, plus their value is on the low side... No wonder Americans switched to checks and insecure cards so soon
Some things are better with cheese.
IMDB: Goat Story (2008; user rating 33%, or 39% at ČSFD, see also popular YouTube review)IMDB: Goat Story 2: with Cheese (2012; user rating 36%, or or 45% at ČSFD, see also popular YouTube review)
No, "goat" does not stand for "greatest of all time" (as you might have guessed) but it's the name (and species) of the main supporting character. In fact, "goats" (kozy in Czech) means "boobs", which is where a major part of the first film's humor comes from and probably why the Shrek donkey ripoff is specifically a goat.
There won't be a date number 2, she will propose on date number 1
There are other ways, for example Ximik_Boda designed T2, a "pro" input method for T9 keyboards. Pressing a key, such as 8/TUV, brings up a popup that shows the mapping of characters to the second key, here 1=
t, 2=u, 3=v, 0=8. Every lowercase letter, number and symbol can be typed with exactly 2 key presses, and there is no annoying wait when typing words like "nonmonogamous" with 7 waits for the 6/MNO key multi-click to time out.Unfortunately, the order is important, for example 62 is
nand 26 is%. Unordered pairs (9 keys and 2 legs) only allow for 36 combinations, which is not enough. 7² for 49 combinations plus two special keys, a modifier and a mode switch (lowercase/uppercase/navigation) seems to be optimal.
Amazing how we (or any organism complex enough to have organs) are just a pair of cells that underwent a sequence of protein-controlled division, folding and diversification. And excretion and consumption that formed and maintains non-cellular parts like fluids and bones. Plus the microbiome but arguably that's not you, much like mites.