Dear #sindarin speaking fediverse
I don't speak Sindarin, but I found myself with an urgent need to know how one would say something like “Say meow and enter”, and some googling¹ and reading of web pages lead me to think it could be something like “Pedo muio a minno”, would it be correct?
Or maybe something like “Say, cat, and enter” would be better, and that, if I'm not mistaken, would be “Pedo muig a minno”?
If I understand correctly they are both neosindarin words, which makes me question Tolkien's priorities, but isn't necessarily an issue for my needs.
Did I get something horribly wrong? Would something else be better?
Thanks!
¹ on searx :D
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I went to the bathroom to retrieve the palette knife I had washed previously, the window was open, noticed the colour of the sky, decided to check whether some of the laundry was already dry and bring it inside.
By the time I had gone from the bathroom to the balcony via the kitchen it was just starting to rain (but everything was dry, so I hurriedly brought everything inside.
Then I run one flight of stairs to my mother, to help her retrieve *her* laundry, and by the time I reached her and we were half-way through her laundry it had started to *pour*
(most of her laundry was saved by the awning)
Sono andata in bagno a riprendere una spatola che avevo lavato, c'era la finestra aperta, ho notato il colore del cielo, deciso di controllare se c'era della biancheria già asciutta e iniziare a ritirare.
Ora che ho fatto il giro bagno -> cucina -> balcone stava iniziando a piovere (tutta la biancheria era asciutta, l'ho ritirata in fretta e furia).
Poi ho corso un piano di scale per andare ad aiutare mia madre a ritirare la *sua* biancheria, e ora che l'ho raggiunta ed eravamo a metà lavoro si è messo a *diluviare*.
(la maggiorparte del suo bucato è stata salvata dalle tende da sole)
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Yesterday I believe we met one of these
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it was quite long, shiny, black and quite beautiful, and I told @Diego Roversi “I believe that's a “scurzun””
Then I opened the Italian page on wikipedia, specifically the section it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierophi… and found that, because of a ~20 km difference, it was a “ratera” instead. And both places are supposed to be speaking the same language! :D
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@Contessina Serbelloni Mazzanti @Diego Roversi eh, anche io ho imparato il nome più o meno dalle tue parti :)
pensavo che ci fosse anche nelle zone verdi più a sud, tipo nel parco del Lura. Certo, non in centro città :D
Prima legge dei sistemi operativi
- se è windows e funziona, è merito di windows
- se è windows e non funziona, è colpa del produttore hardware che non sa fare i driver
- se è linux e non funziona, è colpa di linux
- se è linux e funziona, no guarda, è un caso, una anomalia statistica, probabilmente sei un nerd che non ha una vita
Seconda legge dei sistemi operativi
- se è windows e si rompe, lo risolvi tranquillamente con un formattone riparatore
- se è linux e si rompe, è complicato, non è stabile e sinceramente non posso vivere così.
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@Yaku 🐗 non so perché, ma leggendo questo articolo mi è venuto in mente un tuo post di qualche giorno fa :D
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Vi siete arresi al sandalo con il calzino?
Da anni nella moda si litiga sull'abbinamento, da sempre considerato senza gusto: è diventato femminista, parodico, auto-ironico e, infine, normaleIl Post
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@Elena ``of Valhalla'' @Yaku 🐗 il sandalo SENZA calzino è tortura, a meno che non lo si usi per stare seduti. Chiunque voglia camminarci dentro sa che dolore e che vesciche provochi.
Calza Forever!
(Vivo in Germania, si capisce? 😂)
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Up to know, everything I've ever painted¹ was on a format between A6 and B8. The acrylic paint I have is in 20 ml tubes, other than 120 ml of titanium white that is lasting me forever.
Then during the weekend I had an overambitious idea that I don't even mention, because it will end in nothing, and I decided I wanted to do at least a couple things on a slightly bigger format, before committing to anything else.
Of course, I also never bought any mounted canvas: I paint mostly on watercolour (postcard) paper, as that sturdy enough for such small formats, and I have a couple pieces of canvas mounted on cardboard, also in A6, that I haven't used yet.
And it was the weekend, and a weekend when I was too busy to visit a shop, but I had a couple one-hour slots and I was feeling the Urge.
So I took the biggest pad of watercolour paper I have (A3-ish, spiral bound at the top, not even glued on the sides) and started to paint with acrylic on it.
¹ badly
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TID (Tonight I Dreamed): Sir Beton, the knight with an armour made of concrete.
I have no idea either.
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@Oblomov uooops, lol, my mental autocorrect, I'm typing from a computer
I'm editing the post :)
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Ora, io ci ho provato a raccogliere documentazione fotografica, ma il pinofono mi ha tradita
ma vi assicuro che lì sopra c'erano *tutti* i treni in orario (erano all'incirca le 14:15 o giù di lì, orario studenti, ma treni non particolarmente pieni)
comunque darò la colpa per la foto ad un gomblotto di #trenò
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Non ho idea di chi siano i gruppi organizzatori (non ho visto loghi della compagnia delle opere sul sito, ma mi son fermata a quel genere di controllo), ma l'evento potrebbe essere interessante per chi è di #saronno
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Rammendare e meglio che buttare, l’iniziativa a Saronno contro lo spreco degli indumenti
Ogni anno, nel mese di maggio, il movimento lancia il “Mend It May”: un mese dedicato alla buona pratica del rammendo, un’azione concreta per contrastare le logiche del fast fashionAndrea Camurani (Vareseweb Srl)
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This morning I woke up and the corner of my pillowcase was doing this, should I worry?
(yes, I have a pencil and a sketchbook (that I almost never use) close to the bed, but not a phone with a camera. ok, actually I did have a phone with a camera, but its battery had been flat for a few days, as usual)
Stamattina mi sono svegliata e l'angolo della federa del cuscino era così: devo preoccuparmi?
(sì, di fianco al letto ho una matita e un quaderno da schizzi (che non uso quasi mai), ma non un telefono con macchina fotografica. ok, tecnicamente un telefono con macchina fotografica c'era, ma scarico da qualche giorno, come al solito)
TFW you partially pull your drying rack out of the wall (it's attached with six screws that go into wall plugs, one of the plugs came out of the wall) in the morning, and then in the evening you see that it has been removed from the wall, *and* the wall has already been repaired so that it can be reattached soon.
Thanks @Diego Roversi !
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TFW alla mattina strappi parzialmente dal muro lo stendibiancheria (è attaccato con sei viti/tasselli e uno dei tasselli è uscito dal muro), e alla sera scopri che è stato staccato completamente e il muro è già stato riparato per poterlo riappendere a breve.
Grazie @Diego Roversi !
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Nella categoria “e se non lo sapete voi”
“Il treno 24567 (VARESE 18:13 - TREVIGLIO 20:20) non è ancora partito. Seguiranno aggiornamenti sulle cause, ancora in fase di accertamento, non appena saranno disponibili.”
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This morning #tea failure was forgetting to set the timer while it was brewing.
luckily I wondered about it after a reasonable amount of time and it is still drinkable (and the bread didn't burn).
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Il fail nel preparare il #té di stamattina è stato dimenticarmi di impostare il timer mentre era in infusione.
Per fortuna me ne sono accorta dopo un tempo ragionevole ed è ancora più o meno bevibile (e il pane non è bruciato).
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No, fortunatamente avevo deciso alla cieca di venire in ufficio a piedi.
La foto è stata fatta passando alla stazione di arrivo.
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I've just bought a product from a company with headquarters in Viale Bom, Varese.
I'm quite sure those headquarters are in Viale Borri
Oh, and the address is written between two horizontal lines, and it goes beyond the line.
I guess that the “Design and Quality by <brand name>” doesn't extend to the packaging :D
Ok, tomorrow I'll take and post pictures.
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Ho appena comprato un prodotto di un'azienda con sede in Viale Bom a Varese.
Sono abbastanza sicura che quella sede sia in Viale Borri.
Oh, e l'indirizzo è scritto tra due righe orizzontali, e sfora oltre la fine delle righe.
Ne deduco che “Design and Quality by <nome dell'azienda>” non si estenda alla stampa sulla confezione :D
Ok, domani faccio e posto una foto, che merita
Today I've had a chance to notice that we (western societies) are sending off our textile waste to another continent, where at least some of it gets probably¹ shipped to China to be processed into felt to protect the floor when painting the walls, and then shipped back to us.
Why aren't we doing this anymore in Prato²? It could even be done by Chinese nationals, there, but at least it wouldn't travel halfway around the world and back!
¹ I have no idea whether that's the origin of that textile waste, maybe that felt was using textile waste from China itself, but still.
² an Italian town with a long tradition of textile industry, historically including textile recycling. These days it also has the second biggest community of Chinese nationals in Italy, most of them working in textile workshops, not always up to even Italian standards of workplace conditions.
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Oggi ho avuto occasione di notare che noi (società occidentali) stiamo mandando i nostri scarti tessili in un altro continente, e almeno una parte di questi probabilmente¹ finisce in Cina dove ne fanno feltro per proteggere i pavimenti quando si imbiancano le pareti, e ce lo rispediscono indietro.
Perché non lo stiamo facendo più a Prato? Potrebbero pure farlo dei Cinesi a Prato, ma almeno non si fa mezzo giro del mondo e ritorno!
¹ non ho idea di quale sia l'origine di quegli specifici scarti, magari arrivavano dal mercato interno cinese, ma non cambia molto.
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@(zerouno) sì, se ne riparla periodicamente, e tra chi si fa i vestiti si tende a parlarne ancora di più.
Ma è difficile fare qualcosa che abbia veramente un effetto, come individui.
(Rammendarsi i vestiti ha tanti buoni effetti ed è un'ottima pratica da consigliarsi a prescindere, anche se difficilmente ha un vero impatto sul problema)
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@Kermode definitely
I'd expect not enough people are painting their walls to use all of the textile waste that gets produced.
Even if those felts were made of a polyester and cotton mix that probably comes from some of the worst garments for recycling (at least if one considers both the ease of recycling and the mass)
meanwhile
valhalla> @Diego Roversi, do you want black tea or green tea?
diego> yes
valhalla> do you want black tea and green tea?
diego> yes
valhalla> ok
so right now I have a pot of “segreto tibetano” brewing, which is a mix of black tea, green tea, bergamot, jasmine and vanilla, and Diego's trolling was unsuccessful :D
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It is *evident* that the fact that the living room table is covered in bits of cardboard and bookbinding paper means that I'm cleaning up my desktop, right?
As in “making a small chest of drawers to store some of the samplers and small containers of ink that I currently have in a mess on the desktop” :D
The current status is that 3 out of 4 drawers are done, one is nearly done, and the structure to put them in needs to be redone from scratch, because my measurements have been way too optimistic and the drawers don't fit :(
But I've started to put some of the ink samplers in one of the drawers, and those are fitting just fine. Also, *all¹* the colours!
¹ actually just above half of the colours available in that line of ink
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Dear lazyverse, I've just read blog.prosody.im/great-invitati… and prosody.im/doc/modules/mod_inv… and I don't understand one thing: can this be used to generate an invite for an user that already exists and has been using the account for a while, but needs to reconfigure an xmpp client on a new phone?
of course they don't know their password, but I would have to reset it from prosodyctl anyway.
#xmpp
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Adding a new device via invitation is not currently a thing. Password resets links (which work almost the same as invitations) are.
Generate a password reset link with this command:
'prosodyctl mod_invites example.com --reset username'
I haven't extensively tested it with clients or invite UIs beyond Snikket, though. Feedback welcome 🙂
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If you want an easy-to-use messaging solution for a group of people (e.g. family, friends, clubs), plus companion apps and easy onboarding without forcing people to learn what a "XEP" is, then Snikket is here for you: snikket.org/start/
We just want XMPP to reach beyond the tech crowd.
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Calibro 35 - Traitors
09 Calibro 35 - Traitors [Record Kicks]
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Girl Genius has a new kickstarter out, to print the next volume
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for those few who don't know, it's a great steampunkish #comic that has been running for years and is published online at girlgeniusonline.com/ and then on paper, funded via kickstarter one volume at a time.
And usually there would be no need to promote them or anything, they have enough devoted followers that they fund on first day, but this time they have a pretty high stretch goal to be able to print *two* volumes at the same time, and it would be really, really nice if they did manage it!
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È aperto il nuovo kickstarter di Girl Genius, per stampare il prossimo volume
kickstarter.com/projects/girlg…
per quei pochi che non lo conoscono, è un #fumetto steampunk che va avanti da anni, pubblicato online su girlgeniusonline.com/ e poi su carta, un volume per volta finanziato su kickstarter.
Di solito non ci sarebbe il minimo bisogno di fargli pubblicità: hanno abbastanza lettori fedeli da riuscire a finanziare la stampa il primo giorno, ma stavolta hanno aggiunto uno stretch goal per riuscire a stampare *due* volumi allo stesso giro, e non sarebbe per niente male se ce la facessero!
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The case for #Pyra. is. done.
It could have been neater, and maybe tomorrow or next week I'll unpick the binding on the raw edges and sew it again, because it's ugly, but the size is just right and it works.
Only took 3 attempts to get to the right amount of ease :)
There will be pictures (and a blog post). Not today :D
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@Fabio @albertuxone e io ho invitato questo pisano qui per una pizza a casa mia questa primavera. ma non se lo merita!
(explanation for people who don't speak italian: I invited albertuxone for homemade pizza this spring, but I'm having second thoughts on whether he deserves it)
Writing for display in the ancient world
VIEWS took part in this year’s Cambridge Festival, a showcase of research happening across the University of Cambridge. The project team has been together for several months now, so the Festi…The VIEWS project
I've found out what the issue with the #tea shop was: they had to restore the website from backups and some user got stuck in the process.
I've now procured more tea (by preparing a list on the website, printing it out and going to the shop. yes, it's close enough that I could just go there without visiting the website. I could.)
@Naomi P do you want some tea? I'm making an herbal one, since here it's evening, but it can turn into whatever you want during the internet trip :)
Ho scoperto qual'era il problema col sito del negozio di té: hanno dovuto recuperare il sito da backup e qualche utente è rimasto incastrato nel processo.
Ho procurato del té (preparando un elenco sul sito, stampandolo e andando al negozio. sì, è abbastanza vicino da poterci andare anche senza visitare il sito. volendo.)
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#sewing update
the corded petticoat is done! And today I expect to finish the hem on the chemise (I'm almost halfway through it), so there will be some cutting fabric time this afternoon, and that may be either the lining for the #AugustaStays or the cartridge pleated skirt.
aaand the chemise is also finished!
and then I just didn't have the energy to do anything that required concentration like cutting fabric, so I just did a bit of lucet
(the 3 metre piece has been finished yesterday, now I've started a 1 metre piece for the front lacing)
e ho finito anche la sottogonna!
e poi non avevo le forze per fare qualunque cosa che richiedesse attenzione come tagliare stoffa, quindi ho fatto solo un po' di cordino a lucet.
(il pezzo da tre metri è stato finito ieri, adesso ne ho iniziato uno da un metro per l'allacciatura davanti)
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Getting to the laundry place 5 minutes before it closed on Saturday morning to give them 4 heavy-ish carpets to wash (while they were still on the car rather than having to walk there while carrying them later). done.
(we called when we got on the car, to ask whether it was ok, and the owner of the place knows us well enough that there wasn't any time consuming procedure, we just dumped everything in there and then she will deal with them when she opens next week. but still, it felt wrong.)
@rapitadaglialieni
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Come alla posta il primo del mese (qui a giugno arrivano un po' prima delle 6 che è già chiaro).
#sewing update
The cording on the petticoat has been completed, I'm now doing the vertical seams (hopefully today), and then I have to gather or pleat or something the top and it's done.
I'm cutting a second attempt at the pyra case: I've cut almost everything, but I've just misplaced one of the fabrics I want to use. The inventory says it's in the box I've been looking for it.
I've printed almost all of the hexbin Standard Compliant pattern weights, I've cut enough felt for all of them (I think, I didn't exactly *count*), and I've been using the first one and it works nicely. It's a good excuse to buy new washers the next time I'm at the shop, right?
Related: if you have recommendations for places in Europe that print small amounts of hexagonal #stickers and don't require me to provide a multi layer PDF file (or a tutorial on how to make those with inkscape or other Free Software) I'd be happy to hear about them :)
And thanks to a couple of movie nights¹ at my mother's I'm close to the 3 meters of lucet cord I plan to use for the back of my Augusta Stays. That I still need to cut lining for, why do you ask?
¹ 17:30 - 19:30 or so counts as night, if you're watching a movie, right? :D
it had fallen to the bottom of the box
(I keep fabric vertically in the box so that I can see all of it at a glance, but this one was especially slippery)
era caduta sul fondo della scatola
(ripongo la stoffa verticalmente nella scatola in modo da riuscire a vedere tutti i contenuti a colpo d'occhio, ma questa era particolarmente scivolosa)
@Kermode nope, too little time for work that requires active concentration
sewing, and especially handsewing are more compatible with those times when the brain wants to switch off :)
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I'm taking a break from historical #sewing to make myself a case for the Pyra¹ that I've just received (YAY!).
Which means working with technical materials.
Which means that two needles have already been broken, and I've just decided to sew the raw edge binding by hand, even if I know it will be painful, because I don't want to deal with another fiddly seam by machine.
¹ handheld gaming console with a full keyboard designed by retrogaming enthusiasts.
Martin Seeger
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •There is no direct translation for meow, so a fantasy word had to be used.
I don't speak Sindarin, this is the output of mr-dialect.com/deutsch-sindari… with remarks translated to English.
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Martin Seeger
in reply to Martin Seeger • • •Output in German was:
Es gibt keine direkte Übersetzung für "Miau" in Sindarin, da es sich um einen Laut handelt, den Katzen von sich geben, und Katzen nicht im Tolkien-Universum existieren. Daher müssen Phantasiewörter verwendet werden, die ähnliche Laute und Bedeutungen haben.
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •thedoctor
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •Hey there. My Sindarin knowledge is quite crusty by now but I'll throw in my two cents anyway.
I haven't been able to find a word for "meow" and I doubt it exists. The Sindarin for "cat" is indeed "muig", apparently. So "Pedo muig a minno" would seem correct.
However, in Sindarin there is the topic of lenition (softening) of consonants (see here: elvish.org/gwaith/sindarin_pho…) under certain circumstances. There doesn't seem to be a precise consensus on when this happens, though. A good article on this particular subject is this: fa-kuan.muc.de/SINDARIN.RXML (see section about the inscription on the doors of Moria) which seems plausible to me. It explains how "mellon" should actually have been lenited (to "vellon") but wasn't because it was, in fact, the password and needed to be spoken in its original form. This apparently threw Gandalf off track at first because he, of course, knew Sindarin perfectly well, as did the creators of the inscription.
Long story short: depending on the context you wish to use this in, "Pedo muig a minno" would be correct but if you wish to adhere to lenition rules it would become "Pedo vuig a minno".
I hope this is of help to you.
Summary of the Sindarin Grammar by Ryszard Derdzinski
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