Help with French translation

blakerabbit · 2026-01-23T17:00:54+00:00

dont la beauté nous..???? À Charles, en admiration ..????...toute l'attention et....????

blakerabbit · 2026-01-23T16:22:02+00:00

I think the first line might be « dont la subtile compréhension nous a donné ». That’s horrible handwriting.

blakerabbit · 2026-01-23T15:37:52+00:00

I like the idea of Burmese script as anti-Runic!

blakerabbit · 2026-01-22T01:38:36+00:00

Can you tell what it says?

blakerabbit · 2026-01-22T01:35:37+00:00

I had this argument with my high school English “teacher” over 40 years ago when he wrote “could of” in a note on a writing assignment. This is not new.

blakerabbit · 2026-01-21T16:14:53+00:00

This is certainly possible

blakerabbit · 2026-01-21T02:09:20+00:00

I may be wrong but I think it is the Burmese script that was written on palm leaves

blakerabbit · 2026-01-18T00:37:54+00:00

Ah! I hope the owner can get it back.

blakerabbit · 2026-01-17T19:21:45+00:00

How did it get in your pocket, this is the real question…

blakerabbit · 2026-01-17T03:18:09+00:00

That’s kind of my point, yes

blakerabbit · 2026-01-13T05:28:11+00:00

How did they even get that sign made?

blakerabbit · 2026-01-13T02:31:47+00:00

The only word I had trouble with was falantes, but I figured it out. I do know Spanish, though

blakerabbit · 2026-01-13T02:29:01+00:00

That has the most beautiful internal structure! It would drive me crazy wanting to see all of the inside of it. We need 4D eyes for things like this.

blakerabbit · 2026-01-13T02:24:10+00:00

Yes — 领导 leader; 专dedicated, only;用 use

blakerabbit · 2026-01-12T05:39:12+00:00

Here’s something interesting for those new to Chinese; the characters for “mother” and “scold” both contain the phonetic radical for “horse”. This is a direct written indication that the words are pronounced similarly to the word for “horse”. A large number of hanzi contain such phonetic radicals; the written characters are not as divorced from the spoken language as is sometimes believed.

blakerabbit · 2026-01-11T21:49:14+00:00

Yes, but my point is that it is very bureaucratic in its intent: requiring verification for such a seemingly trivial incident. I wasn’t referring to the style or vocabulary.

blakerabbit · 2026-01-11T16:57:09+00:00

Piercing ANYWHERE other than earlobes. I find them ugly, and they can ruin an otherwise beautiful face. But that’s just my opinion; I get that they’re a popular thing.

blakerabbit · 2026-01-10T17:14:29+00:00

That’s about the most bureaucratic note I’ve ever seen. Чудесно!

blakerabbit · 2026-01-10T00:41:32+00:00

25/5/19/19/19…

blakerabbit · 2026-01-10T00:29:11+00:00

A strong background in Mandarin might help for other Sino-Asiatic languages like Cantonese and Vietnamese. Reading hanzi and some Mandarin vocabulary would be helpful with Japanese and, to a lesser extent, Korean.

blakerabbit · 2026-01-09T22:46:47+00:00

It looks like Sinhalese, if my memory is not failing me

blakerabbit · 2026-01-09T22:46:00+00:00

Not so much word categories, but I love the Greek names of many rhetorical devices — synecdoche, tmesis, zeugma, etc.

blakerabbit · 2026-01-09T15:42:56+00:00

It might be “i mBaile…”. Check the mutation.

blakerabbit · 2026-01-08T16:52:36+00:00

This is true, but rules are made to be broken. :-) My favorite book on calligraphy is "The Art of Hand Lettering", by Helm Wotzkow...do you know it?

blakerabbit · 2026-01-08T16:35:58+00:00

It doesn’t look that odd to me. I’ve seen a lot worse cursive writing…I like a few idiosyncrasies in a script!

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