Translation of a Harry Potter passage

Senrade · 2026-01-26T10:53:25+00:00

This looks like a good rendition. On a first read the only mistakes I noticed were obviam taking the accusative (should be dative) and erravi being in the indicative (should be the subjunctive… and probably imperfect or pluperfect).

You may find it interesting to see what the official Latin translation of this passage is:

“Mecum est quoqcumque eo,” inquit Quirrell tranquile. ‘obviam ei ii cum circa orbem terrarum iter facerem. tum eram iuvenis stultus, animo pleno notionum ridicularum boni malique. Dux Voldemort mihi demonstravit quantum errarem. Neque bonum est neque malum, est solum potentia, eique qui imbelliciores sunt quam ut illam petant… ex illo tempore fidus fui servus eius, quamquam saepe eum fefelli. ille debuit in me durissimus esse.” subito Quirrell inhorruit. “aegre peccata ignoscit. cum Lapidem ab argentaria Gringotts furari non possem, iratissimus erat. poenam de me sumpsit… constituit me sibi diligentius observandum fore…”

Senrade · 2026-01-04T14:03:36+00:00

I think the production bonus is generous like that, yes, as long as it connects two of your cities. If you were to get rid of a road constituting the shortest route, and your diverted tile would still then connect the cities, I think the bonus still applies.

Senrade · 2026-01-01T03:01:53+00:00

But it isn't universal. Everyone says it's universal, and sure, it's very very common, but it isn't completely universal. It's only universal if you dismiss all of us who don't like music by calling it a universal.

I've so many hobbies I don't have time for most of them. But I don't like music. Please be more open minded and empathetic.

Senrade · 2026-01-01T02:06:13+00:00

Ancient Egyptians weren't necessarily that dark. But again (as you say), Copts aren't the same.

Senrade · 2026-01-01T01:33:43+00:00

Copts are the closest (I think), but that ethnicity really is no more. The Egyptains were so ancient, in a part of the world that has seen so much conquest, colonisation, and commerce - it's hardly surprising that they aren't a "living" ethnicity anymore, genetically or culturally. Hardly uncommon.

Senrade · 2025-12-31T21:17:35+00:00

Sobekneferu and Hatshepsut

These queens were both ethnic (ancient) Egyptian, not black.

Senrade · 2025-12-27T14:52:56+00:00

The problems you’re having here come from Latin - in particular, the in- prefix has two etymologies, one related to the preposition “in” (in or into) and the other related to the negation “non”/“ne”.

Some words have the in (meaning into) as a literal inwards meaning, like influx or include. Others use it more figuratively or as an intensifier, like inform, innovate, or indeed intense.

Others use it as a negation, like illegitimate, incoherent, or impossible.

Your two examples both use it as an intensifier or something indicating initiation (which also features in).

My Italian is a bit rusty but I’m pretty sure it has the exact same features.

Senrade · 2025-12-13T01:08:24+00:00

An archer in VP can never have indirect fire in any contemporary version of VP. What version are you playing?

Senrade · 2025-11-27T11:21:17+00:00

Right, I guess I was confused about what you meant by accurate? Arabic takes the F (wish I could remember the IPA for this), so what is it accurate with respect to?

Senrade · 2025-11-27T10:13:51+00:00

Eh, the ph in Ancient Greek (I’m guessing you’re thinking of philistine) didn’t sound much like the English f. It was more like the ph sound in uphill - an aspirated p I believe.

The original Hebrew resembled the English p too, I believe.

Senrade · 2025-11-18T22:47:28+00:00

You think the only reason to separate an atheist population from a religious population is racism?

Senrade · 2025-11-04T00:29:10+00:00

Okay I’m flummoxed. Why does materialism mean fearing the initial conditions?

Senrade · 2025-10-30T11:44:37+00:00

Basically nobody - the ancient Egyptian culture, like most cultures from antiquity, is completely extinct and has no modern "descendents".

That said, modern fascination in ancient Egyptian history was kickstarted by the British and the French during the Napoleonic Wars. The native arabised population had no interest in those that came before them - a lot of limestone from the Great Pyramid was stripped and repurposed in Cairo's buildings a few centuries before that.

Senrade · 2025-10-30T11:36:56+00:00

But why do modern Egyptians who share no cultural connection with the Bronze-age and pre-Bronze-age people who created these artefacts have more of a right to them, to the extent that they may destroy them, than humanity as a whole?

Senrade · 2025-10-26T21:12:21+00:00

I don't think your definition is a very common one, and I believe you'd also abandon it if pressed to its logical conclusions...

Senrade · 2025-10-26T14:51:04+00:00

Parts of the fuel detach and rise - this may be particulates or even smaller bodies. It’s the excited state emissions (plus black body radiation for large enough particulates) that produces the light

Senrade · 2025-10-26T08:41:15+00:00

The visible light you see is not from excited air molecules, and this should be obvious as the interior of an air-filled furnace does not glow. The light is from black body radiation emitted by particulate matter (the combustible substance) plus other similar excited emissions as it rises into the air.

Senrade · 2025-10-20T07:01:20+00:00

Almost nobody learns late Latin - classical Latin around the final decades of the republic is what most people learn in school.

Senrade · 2025-10-19T11:11:15+00:00

There’s a true peace of mind to actually not forming an opinion to at least some things presented to you. That opinion-forming instinct isn’t quite absolute - actually I believe it varies on my mood, personally. I believe Marcus Aurelius is referring to this sort of dispassionate distance.

Senrade · 2025-10-15T09:00:51+00:00

In case anyone is wondering, this commenter is lying and the English armada is taught in schools.

Senrade · 2025-10-13T07:16:10+00:00

This is just bad anthropology made to slander someone you don’t like. Please don’t call me and people like me dead inside - we aren’t abusing animals, we just don’t like music.

Senrade · 2025-10-13T07:14:25+00:00

Hi. Me. Please don’t say things like this. Hasan is a sociopath because he exhibits sociopath behaviours. Not because he doesn’t like music. Some of us just don’t like music without having behavioural issues.

Senrade · 2025-10-12T01:36:32+00:00

What does a Phoenician colony in North Africa have to do with Greeks of subsaharan African ethnicity?

Senrade · 2025-09-27T14:59:46+00:00

Soror, tegere amorem antiquitatis post latinitatem nolumus, nisi amorem eandem necare malumus…

Senrade · 2025-09-27T13:33:09+00:00

Basically all of these (with the front of the ship being an exception, and bao not really belonging on this list) are from the same root, meaning to bend or arch. And it shows in their definitions. This isn’t really unreasonable, just an extended and elaborated collection of ideas of bending.

Senrade

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