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Translation help

Apr. 18th, 2009 at 8:15 AM

If I'd like to have "Out, out, damn spot!" in Latin would it be something like:

Evanesco evanesco exsecratus macula

?

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lovecraftienne wrote:

Apr. 18th, 2009 12:52 pm (UTC)

No - let me look it up later in my 200 Verbs, but I'm fairly sure the imperative would be evanescate. You might be able to find a Latin translation of the play, though, that'd be my best bet. Else, take it to

linguaphiles. They'll nail it down for you for sure, or I'll come back to this later when I'm up, k? Feel free to poke me about it, though - I'm a rotten one for remembering things like this.

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darkmagess wrote:

Apr. 18th, 2009 12:55 pm (UTC)

I actually tried to find a translation of the play and failed. I figured someone -had- to have done that by now, but if they have, they haven't made it easy to google.

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lovecraftienne wrote:

Apr. 18th, 2009 12:56 pm (UTC)

Hm - well, try the linguaphiles, then, or I can check it when I'm up for good. I'm just getting my meds then lying back down - Chelle and I were up til 5am talking. :)

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darkmagess wrote:

Apr. 21st, 2009 12:10 am (UTC)

*nudge* Would you have time to do this translation for me?

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lovecraftienne wrote:

Apr. 21st, 2009 12:11 am (UTC)

Certainly - have I forgotten to do something I said I'd do? I hate when that happens...:)

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darkmagess wrote:

Apr. 21st, 2009 12:13 am (UTC)

To be fair, you were up very early at the time. =)

I just wanted to "Out, out damn spot!" translated into latin :)

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lovecraftienne wrote:

Apr. 21st, 2009 12:13 am (UTC)

kk - I'll poke the linguaphiles, see what we get. :)

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darkmagess wrote:

Apr. 23rd, 2009 06:53 pm (UTC)

Did they ever reply?

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lovecraftienne wrote:

Apr. 23rd, 2009 06:56 pm (UTC)

Sigh. I suck sometimes. I just made the post, having forgotten *again*. OMG my memory is getting bad. Sorry. I'll let you know as soon as I hear (and won't forget this time, because I'll be getting e-mails!).

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darkmagess wrote:

Apr. 23rd, 2009 06:58 pm (UTC)

*chuckle* It's ok. Not life or death. I haven't even taken a second pass through that chapter yet. ;) Just that I have no hope of doing translations on my own. =)

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lovecraftienne wrote:

Apr. 24th, 2009 06:26 pm (UTC)

Only a couple of answers.

One was:

Exi, macula exitiosa, inquam, exi!

The other was quite different, and has a mistake in it (but not one I know how to fix):

Abe, macula damnata! Diceo, abe!

The post is here

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darkmagess wrote:

Apr. 24th, 2009 08:28 pm (UTC)

Awesome! Thanks. :) Most likely only I will be amused because I'll know what the phrase means, but I think that's reason enough to try to get it right.

Were you interested in signing up to be part of the steampunk MMO game writing team I wrote to you about?

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lovecraftienne wrote:

Apr. 24th, 2009 11:04 pm (UTC)

I am interested, I just don't know if I've got the spare time just now, what with needing to find work so desperately. :/

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darkmagess wrote:

Apr. 24th, 2009 11:10 pm (UTC)

Job hunting is -awful-. Been at it for many months myself, so I completely understand. What do you do besides translation work?

I shall tell bossman "definitely, maybe". =) I haven't contributed much to the project, lately, mostly because of other creative projects getting in the way, but they seem ok with giving me time.

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lovecraftienne wrote:

Apr. 24th, 2009 11:10 pm (UTC)

Basically, writing/editing/proofing, translation, and tutoring is what I'll be listing on my website.

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darkmagess wrote:

Apr. 24th, 2009 11:16 pm (UTC)

You check Quill & Quire, yeah? If you can write children's stories, the Story Something posting looks interesting, although it's tough to tell what they actually do.

Wish I had acquisitions experience... two places up there are looking for someone with that... :P

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lovecraftienne wrote:

Apr. 24th, 2009 11:16 pm (UTC)

Never heard of it, actually. Sling me a link and I'll have a boo. :)

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darkmagess wrote:

Apr. 24th, 2009 11:19 pm (UTC)

http://www.quillandquire.com/job_board/

There's also a Canadian editors association that has a job board, but it costs money to join.

http://www.editors.ca/

I don't know how useful that is, as we don't really have a similar organization down here, but getting one job from it would probably cover the cost.

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lovecraftienne wrote:

Apr. 24th, 2009 11:21 pm (UTC)

Thanks! :)

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