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After seeing this post (by daphne) about vulvic imagery in medieval Christian texts, I decided (due to a combination of puzzle-solving curiosity and ADHD) to try to translate the text. Iāll let you fill in the very apropos linguist joke on your own š¤
Anyway, I wonāt bury the lead, so here are my translations. Scroll down for more detail on the process!
Transcription: Nous monstre tres dous dier me tresguint largesce Quant vousistes pour nous souffrir tant de destresce
Literal translation (attempt!): (It [this image]/God) shows us (this) very soft/sweet door, (which) signals generosity to me When you (God) wanted us to suffer so much distress
Freeish translation: To present us such a pleasant portal is, to me, a grand gesture of generosity When youāve willed us so much woe
āāā Ok so hereās what I did. I speak French decently, and at first glance it looked like Old/Middle French. After eyeballing it a little, I needed to look up medieval script to see if I was reading the letters properly. As I was doing this I was cross-checking words in O/M French to see if things were lining up. For the most part it went well but I ran into a couple of real head-scratchers. First, dier. I thought this was probably related to French dire (to say/tell) but I wasnāt getting any hits. So then I thought, since Iād confirmed weāre in OF, could this be from eastern France / modern-day Belgium/Luxembourg/The Netherlands and be a dialect (like Walloon or Luxembourgish) that included some Germanic words? That led me to the Luxembourgish dier, meaning door, which made sense given the imagery. Then I ran into tresguint, which was extremely mysterious. It took me quite a while digging, and what I landed on is that itās a combo of tres (very) and guint, a conjugation of the OF verb guignier (cognate with English wink), meaning to signal. So, thatās my best effort based on semi-educated guesses and instinct. If youāre still here, you get my final version of translation, the freest one. I guess itās a poem. āØ A glance, a wink, a glimmer a place of warmth, a glow beyond the gloom āØ
Transcription: Nous monstre tres dous dier me tresguint largesce Quant vousistes pour nous souffrir tant de destresce
Literal translation (attempt!): (It [this image]/God) shows us (this) very soft/sweet door, (which) signals generosity to me When you (God) wanted us to suffer so much distress
Freeish translation: To present us such a pleasant portal is, to me, a grand gesture of generosity When youāve willed us so much woe
āāā Ok so hereās what I did. I speak French decently, and at first glance it looked like Old/Middle French. After eyeballing it a little, I needed to look up medieval script to see if I was reading the letters properly. As I was doing this I was cross-checking words in O/M French to see if things were lining up. For the most part it went well but I ran into a couple of real head-scratchers. First, dier. I thought this was probably related to French dire (to say/tell) but I wasnāt getting any hits. So then I thought, since Iād confirmed weāre in OF, could this be from eastern France / modern-day Belgium/Luxembourg/The Netherlands and be a dialect (like Walloon or Luxembourgish) that included some Germanic words? That led me to the Luxembourgish dier, meaning door, which made sense given the imagery. Then I ran into tresguint, which was extremely mysterious. It took me quite a while digging, and what I landed on is that itās a combo of tres (very) and guint, a conjugation of the OF verb guignier (cognate with English wink), meaning to signal. So, thatās my best effort based on semi-educated guesses and instinct. If youāre still here, you get my final version of translation, the freest one. I guess itās a poem. āØ A glance, a wink, a glimmer a place of warmth, a glow beyond the gloom āØ
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šQuippy: Ā a witty or funny observation or response usually made on the spur of the moment; something strange, droll, curious, or eccentric.
This word is so cute.
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my favorites: -Gothic (who ARE the goths?!) -Zany āthe mixture of work and play: comedy as affective labor? -Vibe āaesthetics? ethos? ambience? -Camp -āGuys girlā -Urban -Wholesome -Cute
my favorites: -Gothic (who ARE the goths?!) -Zany āthe mixture of work and play: comedy as affective labor? -Vibe āaesthetics? ethos? ambience? -Camp -āGuys girlā -Urban -Wholesome -Cute
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