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flemmings ([personal profile] flemmings) wrote2010-02-15 05:44 pm
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Belatedly, for Valentine's Day

The Song of the Four Locusts!
Have you said in your heart
'My companion is lost forever?'
Yesterday I saw her!
Her heart is still (directed) towards you.
And she commanded me to declare:

She loves you.
Is this not a good thing?
Surely, she loves you.
Therefore you should rejoice!
Third prize winner. Me, I'd rejoice more if they'd just coded the Hebrew (I assume it's Hebrew) and not used a .gif. Granted, the cuneiform ones *need* .gifs...

[identity profile] feliciter.livejournal.com 2010-02-16 12:06 am (UTC)(link)
Hebrew!Beatles filk = love instant win!

quite sweet that a husband-wife team got honorable mention and 1st prize

[identity profile] flemmings.livejournal.com 2010-02-16 01:02 am (UTC)(link)
Check out the 2009 winners for 'You are my sunshine' in Hittite.

[identity profile] takumashii.livejournal.com 2010-02-16 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
I am so immeasurably happy right now.

[identity profile] flemmings.livejournal.com 2010-02-16 01:03 am (UTC)(link)
It's so heart-warming, even though I can't read a word of it.
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[personal profile] incandescens 2010-02-16 01:33 am (UTC)(link)
Totally frivolous and absolutely delightful.

[identity profile] flemmings.livejournal.com 2010-02-16 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
True, it sounds a bit like one of [livejournal.com profile] daegaer's Japanese lessons, but still.
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[personal profile] chomiji 2010-02-16 01:43 am (UTC)(link)

That's so awesome!!

My Hebrew is incomplete and rusty, but those are definitely Hebrew characters, and I recognize bits of words that I know in one form or another (love, sing, good, justice, heart) here and there, too.

[identity profile] flemmings.livejournal.com 2010-02-16 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
Ah-hah. I wondered why your 'No in many languages' entry included Hebrew but omitted Japanese. (I only know what no is in Hebrew because I nannied a pair of Israeli toddlers.)
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[personal profile] chomiji 2010-02-16 02:23 am (UTC)(link)

I left out Latin, too - IIRC, there's no straightforward, all-purpose way to say "no" in Latin. And in Spanish, I said "enough!" rather than "no."

My smidgeon of Japanese is all restaurant, martial-arts-class, name-element Japanese. Is there a simple way to say "no"?

Edited 2010-02-16 02:23 (UTC)

[identity profile] flemmings.livejournal.com 2010-02-16 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
Can't think of a way of saying no in Latin, and googling suggests there isn't one. Needs a sentence with a strong negater, apparently.

The simplest Japanese way of saying no in the 'No way! I don't want it' sense is Iya da! but of course that's also rude and childish. I think if you want to be snottily polite to the weather gods it's more like 'mou kekkou desu' (that's fine, thanks.)