Well, this one came next. It says "Your sister said she would abuse me if I didn't write to you." Kind of hard to make out the signature. Something that starts with a "J", it looks like. So Critter, if you feel the need to abuse somebody, don't start with the "J's". He performed admirably.
I stared at this one for a few minutes when I got it and said "I have no idea what this says, but that looks oddly familiar."
Turns out I was right. It's written in Klingonii. It says:
"Today is a good day to die!"
"We are Klingons!"
Trekkies will never die, brave warrior.
And this one is the last one I got. From the word at the top, "Sawubona" I figured out that it was written in Zulu. "Sawubona" means "I see you."
It must be a dialect that my translator didn't have. All I could decipher was that he was a builder and he knows my sister. After that things got a little fuzzy. I got part of a translation that said something about "With the heart always who appear from the plans", which doesn't sound right at all.
I'll keep looking.
And thanks to NoisyFrogPond I am now hot on the trail of this one from the other day:
She says that the script is Armenian. So maybe I can track down an Armenian speaker who could translate it for me. Whoo Hoo!
If I could just find an Armenian Zulu I could kill two birds with one stone!
And that's all of the postcards I have for now. Will there be more? I guess we'll just wait and see.
Here's the weekend lineup:
Saturday: White Tee-Shirt Day, Don't Cry Over Spilled Milk Day and Peppermint Patty Day.
Sunday: National Plum Pudding Day, Be Electrified day and Be Satisfied Being Single Day.
Monday: Get A Different Name Day, Dream Your Sweet Day, Darwin Day and National Tortellini Day.
Please use a designated driver!
Rainy days
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The words of a song from 1921 (my mother would have been nine years old),
originally sung by Al Jolson, has been going through my mind since
yesterday. ...
16 hours ago
National Tortellini Day? Hell, yeah! Lemme get a different name while I'm at it. Suggestions, anyone?
ReplyDeleteAmy- Other than Amy or other than Tortellini?
DeleteHmmm, Chanel was asking me yesterday if I spoke Klingon. Of course, it was in the midst of a conversation about Star Trek, but I wouldn't rule her out as a bloody-thirst stalker who has decided that it's "a good day to die"...for you. I would sleep with one eye open. She seems pretty viscous. I bet she knows how to kill someone six different ways with her flute.
ReplyDeleteBryan- Yikes! Now you have me skittish of flautists. Texan flautists, anyway.
DeleteAnd it wouldn't really surprise me if you did speak Klingon.
Really.
Hmm, I will have to ask Buyi what her dialect of Zulu is.
ReplyDeleteCritter- I'd like to know what that said. And the Armenian one, too!
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