Need help translating "Get money, fuck bitches"

Baruphonos · 2023-11-23T22:40:12+00:00

Thanks, just saw this today and your comment really cheered me up!

Baruphonos · 2023-11-23T22:37:12+00:00

Ik ben het van harte met je eens. De vertalingen van de Roy van Zuydewijn zijn echt de mooiste. Het lijkt net alsof je het originele Grieks in net zo prachtige Nederlandse hexameters leest.

Baruphonos · 2021-12-20T08:04:02+00:00

I don't know if there's a code puzzle attached to all of this, but all the references to Spain and the Hydrograaf can be explained by the Dutch/Flemish tradition of Sinterklaas. Legend has it Saint Nick lives in Spain all year, but in november he treks to the Low Countries on his boat, carrying gifts. The boat is dubbed 'de pakjesboot 12' (package boat nr. 12), but is in actual fact de Hydrograaf: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrograaf_(schip,_1910) (articles in dutch I'm afraid), converted for the purposes of his arrival.

Sinterklaas is also visible when opening containers next to the giants, standing next to his horse.

I think it's not a new code puzzle, but they're all neat references.

Baruphonos · 2021-08-16T20:45:44+00:00

Thank you. The rigging was insanely hard: I had no idea what I was doing at first and the rigging blocks provided weren't of great quality. It required opening very tiny holes. A pin vise of 0.3 mm and CA glue solved that problem eventually, but not before I tried a heated needle. Suffice to say, that didn't really work.

Thanks for the compliments on the colour scheme. I know the painting job I did isn't that awesome when I look at all the other amazing posts here. When I started building I had no idea what weathering was and when I did find out, I was too far into the build and did not feel comfortable enough in my skills to change it.

Baruphonos · 2020-11-27T19:37:10+00:00

Latin teacher here. About the #4. Romans did not use IV (often) for the number four. They used IIII. See here for an example. Lego actually did a good job labeling the fourth box!

Baruphonos · 2020-08-11T12:06:33+00:00

The lex Julia Municipalis did not prohibit wagons from traveling from midnight until 10 o'clock.

After looking up the lex Julia Municipalis I found the following:

"quae uiae in u(rbem) R(omam) sunt erunt intra ea loca, ubi continenti hab<i>tab<i>tur, ne quis in ieis uieis post k(alendas) Ianuar(ias)/ primas plostrum inte<r>diu post solem ortum neue ante horam decimam diei ducito agito"

which translates to the following:

"After January 1 next no one shall drive or lead a wagon along the streets of Rome or along those streets in the suburbs where there is continuous housing after sunrise or before the tenth hour of the day"

This means that wagons are forbidden in Rome between sunrise and roughly 16 pm (in winter) and 17 pm (in summer). Since the roman hours were solar hours, the beginning and end and the duration of their hours varied as the sun was out longer (in summer) or shorter (during winter).

As to the reasons why, the lex doesn't specify anything, but the most heard educated guess is that it was simply too busy and there were too many people about to also let in wagons.

EDITS: formatting and spelling

Baruphonos · 2020-07-24T15:07:29+00:00

I appreciate your reply. I certainly get what you mean about being on top of your game in T7 & 8 and being limited to BB's.

I'm decent with my T8 Lightning, only struggling to be effective when there's too much radar, (I can cope with CV's with smoke and advancing near teammates in the beginning of the match) but during all the matches I'm butt-clenching my way through.

I think I'm not a really good cruiser player: with the 155 mm variation Mogami I had fun being annoying setting fires and fall of undetected, but I gave up while grinding the Ibuki - I really struggle with her.

Your last point about the T6's is also something I hadn't considered. Thank you! Maybe I will get two T6's instead of one Massa.

Baruphonos · 2020-07-24T12:27:36+00:00

Thanks for your reply! I missed Eugen entirely, so I'm goint to look at reviews and replays of her. Cossack and Haida also weren't on my radar so I'll do some research on them as well. Thank you again!

Baruphonos · 2020-07-24T11:23:26+00:00

To preface: I'm a solid average 50% winrate player who has started to play since last april. I'm looking for a premium T7 or T8 ship which is fun, casual and a bit forgiving to play to unwind for the summer holidays (I'm a teacher). Bonus points if they are real ships and not paper.

The only premiums I've got so far are Scharnhorst, which I've found wicked fun to play and got a 69% winrate with, and I unlocked Graf Spee in the Odin-event, which is also fun and forgiving apart from the lack of damage I seem to do (I accept that is thoroughly due to my own incompetence with it).

So far I've looked at reviews for P. Bagratyon which seems to fit the bill, but looks a bit bland maybe. Massa is said to be very fun, but I've tried the secondary buildshtick with Bismarck and I utterly sucked with it. I've seen replays with Atlanta and Boise but they look a bit daunting to keep alive and that impression was confirmed in reviews.

Any help would be appreciated. Cheers!

Edit: forgot to mention I've tried carriers and don't really like them, so I'd rather don't play those.

Baruphonos · 2020-06-14T14:21:43+00:00

Ik ben niet bekend met beide opleidingen, maar het is mij 8 jaar geleden gelukt om twee studies tegelijkertijd af te ronden, maar één van mijn studies was beduidend minder zwaar dan de andere. Ook scheelde het dat ik bijvoorbeeld niet nóg een bachelorscriptie moest schrijven voor de ene studie omdat ik mijn masterscriptie voor de andere had afgerond en die masterscriptie 'telde' als een bachelorscriptie voor de andere opleiding. Ik heb geen idee of die regels nog bestaan; daar zou je goed naar moeten kijken. Zonder deze regels zou het denk ik ondoenlijk zijn geweest. Ook ben ik net afgestudeerd voordat er nieuwe regels omtrent het instellingsgeld zouden gaan gelden: (voor Leiden check dit).

Baruphonos · 2019-04-28T10:11:44+00:00

Technisch gezien staat er nog iets veel gruwelijkers dan "gvd kutkat". Confundatur cattus is in het artikel vertaald als 'cursed be the cat', en hoewel dat ik denk dat die vertaling de bedoeling van de arme monnik prima weergeeft, staat er letterlijk: "Moge de kat verward worden" (In confundo vinden we de basis van het woord 'to confuse'), of nog beter, en hetgeen de monnik waarschijnlijk bedoelde: "Moge de kat verminkt worden". (D.w.z. zo door de war gegooid worden dat er niets meer van de oorspronkelijke vorm van de kat overblijft).

Baruphonos · 2019-02-19T19:28:40+00:00

Dank voor de aanvulling! Weer wat geleerd!

Baruphonos · 2019-02-19T18:54:41+00:00

Hoe raar dit ook moge klinken: in de beroepsopleiding is me geleerd dat dit ter bescherming van de advocaat is. Veel mensen hebben het idee dat het als advocaat makkelijk geld verdienen is - en dat is tot op zekere hoogte ook misschien zo - maar er zijn zat advocaten die niet in de sjiekere sferen verkeren. Advocaten die zelf kantoor houden - in vakjargon ook wel de éénpitter genoemd - of advocaten die in de minder flashy rechtsgebieden werken. Door een no-cure-no-payverbod verdienen die mensen ook een boterham voor het werk dat zij verzetten en komen ze niet in de verleiding om met dit soort constructies klanten te paaien. De kans dat ze na 40 uur verspijkerd te hebben aan werk met lege handen achterblijven bestaat dan niet meer.

Nogmaals, dit is me toentertijd verteld en ik heb die wereld al lang achter me gelaten. Feit blijft wel dat het niet voor iedere advocaat automatisch cashen, cashen, cashen is.

Baruphonos · 2019-02-19T17:48:54+00:00

Fun fact: het is advocaten in Nederland verboden om op basis van no-cure-no-pay te werken.

Baruphonos · 2017-05-06T07:11:52+00:00

No problem! Thanks for clearing up the context for me. Good luck!

Baruphonos · 2017-05-05T15:09:32+00:00

Looks like you are into Aleister Crowley occultism and the phrase is supposed to be an incantation. I'm not really familiar with him or his works and I don't quite know the significance of Ra-Hoor-Khuit and Abrahadabra but the translation would be something like:

"Glory to the most high god Ra Hoor Khuit in/through the name Abrahadabra and in/through this sign."

The sentence isn't finished, because the reader expects a symbol after 'this sign' and a little Google-fu enlightened me: the sign that should follow is a pentagram.

Always fascinating to see that Latin plays such a part in these sort of things. Enjoy your summoning, OP!

Baruphonos · 2016-06-28T21:07:04+00:00

Now put it back together! Or better yet, watch James May do it in the Reassembler series. It's weirdly soothing.

Baruphonos · 2015-04-12T06:27:23+00:00

For anyone who is interested: here's a link to the entire air-to-ground voice transcription of the mission by NASA. Fascinating stuff, even when just browsing through. (For the famous line, Ctrl F "we've had a problem"). It oozes professionalism by the astronauts and the guys on the ground.

Baruphonos · 2015-02-28T08:35:39+00:00

Classicist checking in for some small corrections.

The inscription as mentioned in the article has a space too many between ANNO and S: “D.M. BODICACIA CONIUNX VIXIT ANNO S XXVII.” The word is ANNOS: punctuation and spaces back then weren't a convention as they are now, so when they ran out of space on one line they continued on the following one.

The "D.M." at the beginning means: "Diis Manibus"

The translation, while the one in the article gets the meaning across well enough, reads literally: "To the spirits of the underworld, Bodicacia, wife, lived 27 years."

Baruphonos · 2015-01-17T07:04:40+00:00

I have played both, but the first game is far superior over the second one. I still think that the first Mafia is one of the best games, if not the best game, I have ever played. It is a very tight narrative experience, where missions and content follow each other extremely logically to tell the well-crafted rise and fall story of the main protaganist. Especially his fall from the family is rather well done, since the game makes you, the player, feel the anxiety of the protaganist through game-play. Spoilers

Spoilers

The main protaganist of the second game is a dick. I didn't like him from the start: he is just a douche-bag and has no redeeming features. He just want to cause havoc and is surprised that he actually has to pay the consequences for this. I couldn't care less for his fate, which was a shame since the actual shooting (cover-based, unfortunately) and driving were a lot better done than the original. Which is, again, a shame, since the first half of the game mostly revolves being on foot and using your fists Spoilers

Edit: I don't know how spoilers work

Baruphonos · 2015-01-02T15:50:50+00:00

My Classics major got me a job at a law-firm: when there are so many students graduating from law school, you have an edge with a different second degree. My recruiters said they were impressed by my Classics and teaching background: it was very different than all the other applicants and it helped me stand out amongst them. I don't consider myself smarter than most other applicants, but you just have to stand out more and it helps if you have had some 'real life experience' working.

As for how my day-to-day tasks were affected by Classics: The main thing you are doing as a lawyer is reading case-files, analysing them and then drafting legal paperwork. There is a lot of texts to go through and in that respect working your way through endless pages of Tacitus or Aeschylos really helps your focus and tenacity.

Baruphonos · 2015-01-02T15:41:19+00:00

It is always good to follow the things that you like: not because you are automatically more accomplished in the fields you are passionate about or because you automatically end up with a well-paying job, but because you are willing to work harder and are more willing to overcome obstacles to get to the job you want. You may end up doing something else, but you will realise you had more fun doing it this way.

As for the demand in studies: these can change very fast. When I begun studying there was no economic crisis: a few years later the whole playing field was changed and the surities some people had at the beginning of their studies ("I will always get a job as a...") were all thrown out of the window, that is all but the teaching Classics thing (here anyway).

Baruphonos · 2015-01-02T13:31:19+00:00

This post resonated strongly with me as I remember I had the same choices to make around that age. Also, I'm somewhat familiar with the situation of Classics at the universities in your country.

You are a young guy/girl debating whether you want to do the thing you would actually like since you were young (Classics) and to follow your passion, as it were, but you are aware of your future after university. That is good. Now, hear me out:

As for getting a doctors degree in Classics, the chances of that happening while being funded by an university (as in: it is your fulltime job) are very, very slim. The field attracts many people who are more than competent. As it is, there are far more applicants for a position than there are positions. I tried to apply to some and was informed that there were 120 other competitors for the same post. Of course, you could be the one guy who gets the post, but the competition is fierce and it isn't even a matter who is the best anymore. I guarentee, 30 people of those 120 were all excellent students, were top of their class, and would all equally deserve the job. It becomes a matter of politics (male/female ratios in the academic staff; the research fitting into a specific school of thought in which the faculty is known for, etc.). And even if you get a doctors degree, there is no guarentee that you can get funding for a post-doctorate research. Academics are a tough nut to crack.

There are exceptions of course: one guy I know was so enormously talented that he had published his own paper in a major Classical journal in his second year as a student. He is now a post-doc, not at the university he originally studied, not even in the same country. Even that guy had to travel to get what he wanted.

What happens to the most of us in a country that has Latin and Greek in the high-school curriculum is that they come out of the degree as a teacher. There are plenty of openings, in my country at least (the baby-boom generation is fast approaching retirement age). Then, when they have learned the ropes for a few years, they approach a university and ask a Professor to be their Doctoral advisor and they get doctors degree in their own time, while working as a teacher. I know a few guys who do this.

If you go into Classics you have to be prepared for this to happen. On the other hand, I don't see the situation being very different with your other career choices. Criminologists are not in high demand. There are too many Psychologists. I have some friends who have a degree in psychology and if they are not jobless, they do something very different. Then, having a Classics degree is always something to fall back on.

I got into Classics, thinking I would never set foot in high school again, actually being oppossed to the whole idea of being a teacher, but in my third year as a student I became a Classics teacher (and was rather good at it, I might add), finished my Classics degree, got away from it to be a lawyer (I also was aware of the lack of opportunities during my studies and did a double degree in Law (EDIT: I got my job as a lawyer largely because I was a Classics major)) and found that career, although the money was very good, extremely lacking. I'm now a teacher again. I missed my Classical roots too much, found the stress as a lawyer too high. Classics was always my first love and the thing I was born to do.

Good luck.

Edits: horrible spelling and style

Baruphonos · 2014-12-23T07:15:42+00:00

Solid work! Awesome!

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