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[SPEC] Entry #28 (Nullam Est)
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DaedalusRamelon
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 		[SPEC] Entry #28 (Nullam Est)
Courtesy of Dr Lariat I have been growing more involved with trying to go along with the ARG. I have a friend trying to work out the Latin that was mentioned on the guide. Hoping to have it translated by the latest tomorrow.

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 		Um the latin guy
I was the one mentioned above and I looked into the latin. Unfortunately, it seems to have been written by someone fairly inept at writing in latin. 2 things that strike me right off, is the lack of knowledge of conjugations and declensions. You can see this in the first sentence "Nullam est." This should literally be translated : "It is toward nothing." Which really makes no sense. I think they are trying to say more something like : "There is nothing." I'd keep going, but they even start spelling words wrong. Volutpat should actually be more like voluptat. One of the other things that I noticed is that the word order is a lot like English, which an experienced Latin writer wouldnt do. In Latin tradition, the verb comes at the end of the sentence, but these lines dont seem to do that. It may be best to just translate each word and put them in the order already shown and see if it comes out coherently.

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It is nothing. Also nothing pure, he loves seeing himself, the flap of a garment but, he follows or, not. Blacken but the infernal regions. Until pure love, sometimes he loves himself, guilty and the flap of a garment, [omare] as, indeed. Also not the Moores. [Morbi] (almost incomprehendable: molestie not being a plausible word) he wants a louse. Until Having been placed among the pure gods which [diam]. The Moorish shovel, [mi] as he will have [hendrerit] [laoreet], there was sometimes no liquid, not [laoreet] [nibh(this is not a word)] wisdom nor Moore. Sometimes to hang oneself, nothing but arrows' [imperdiet], indeed morally(fouly) arrows before, from the moral(foul) vestibule which is not pure. Also of hatred. Also flying arrows cover. But as moral(foul).

This is a fairly poor attempt at translating the text. Again, I said the Latin was horrible, almost like an Ebonics of Latin. I just worked with what I could.

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Ehsan
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 		Thanks a lot guys. Glad to have you on board, and hopefully the translation would mean something at a later stage in the game.

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 		Aha, you see the same people on the same forums and no-one's moving anywhere.

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 		imperdiet
Imperdiet means "unbroken", as in "unbroken arrow." I'm pretty sure.

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DaedalusRamelon
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 		Thank you for that Janus. My Latin teacher would probably have had a heart attack if I ever showed him something that bad.

PostPosted: Fri Oct 03, 2003 8:35 am
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 		The thing is, its as if they knew real latin endings and just pasted them on nonsense words. There is no imperd... word in latin. Also definitely no nibh word. I dont know whats going on, but I am certain there is some kind of hint in the latin.

In lipsum, I guarantee if you look hard enough you will never see the word nibh.

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