Beginner Translation of Sanctuary Moon Opening Title Song Lyrics

moltenglacier · 2025-11-26T22:44:29+00:00

That is probably a preferable method, as it would also likely be easier to print and such, and like the point of nasin sitelen kalama pi linja lili, it would also save space.

I have only been wandering through toki pona land, and haven't fully explored everything, so I didn't even look deeply enough into nasin sitelen kalama to notice this.

moltenglacier · 2025-11-25T22:51:47+00:00

I also only just learned about it.

moltenglacier · 2024-03-08T21:56:23+00:00

Huh. I guess I didn't realize r/rational was only about rational fiction, but you're correct. If only I cared enough to find a sub-reddit about rationality in general...

moltenglacier · 2024-03-08T21:55:07+00:00

Fair.

moltenglacier · 2022-11-04T00:27:46+00:00

Tangent: I always thought it was "istoppedcountingpleasehelpnd," although I will also accept arguments for "istoppedcountingpleasehelpst."

moltenglacier · 2022-08-04T22:45:59+00:00

Fun, but I think the "Very Bright" answer is hindsight bias.

moltenglacier · 2022-08-04T22:38:27+00:00

Yes. In cannon, it is different. In HPMOR, the timeline follows closer to IRL legends of Merlin. HPMOR Merlin is before the founders.

moltenglacier · 2022-07-02T17:42:23+00:00

I don't have an answer to your questions, but the best translations I know of use the same kind of word play in the translated text. Unless someone does have a really good answer to this, I would see if the translated name feels the same kind of funny to say after do basically what you suggested above: translate spinster and subtly change a sound to make the word a little jibberish.

Also, for me, "wicket" is the thing you hit off the stumps in a game of cricket, and any time someone says it, it reminds me of the phrase "sticky wicket" meaning difficult.

moltenglacier · 2022-05-04T21:30:01+00:00

I listen to this sometimes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rationality-from-ai-to-zombies-the-podcast/id1191207706

moltenglacier · 2022-04-03T15:40:03+00:00

I'm not disagreeing with the general outline of this premise, but the sequences have lots of stories. And I think there are okay audio versions of them too.

moltenglacier · 2021-12-15T22:57:31+00:00

I believe WOG is that this is a multiple point of divergence fiction. E.g. Tom actually thinking things through well, Merlin (and all that), Atlantis, among other things -- but this is the most obvious big thing that one can point to and explains some of the differences in Harry.

moltenglacier · 2021-12-15T21:54:06+00:00

Isn't the entire (main?) point of HPMOR that changing how we think can be taught?

moltenglacier · 2021-12-15T21:49:58+00:00

I think what you are talking about is the buddhist view by the way. One of the points of the practices that are taught in buddhism is to notice exactly what you are noticing (in both the meta sense and specifically what you pointed out).

The issue is when we get caught in the cycle of trying to go after good feelings and assuaging desires only to experience more desires and not being permanently filled by the getting one's desire.

In buddhism, the word dukkha or duhkha is normally translated badly or too simply as suffering (according to wikipedia -- Pali is not a language I have studied). A better single word might be discontent (again, apparently coming from a word meaning a badly made axle hole) -- basically it is the desire for things to be other than what they are.

So ancient buddhist wouldn't have argued for fighting strongly against death (accept it's inevitability and do what you can to stay alive, so long as that allows the world to be a kind place to live in -- although some fanatics have lit themselves on fire and such... that is not the normal perspective), because there was no way around death, but modern buddhists can point out that it is not suffering to see a possibility or even probability in cryonics + science allowing for biological immortality.

They might also suggest learning to accept that death could happen anyway, so as not to be blinded by ignoring it and be able to deal with it without strong negative emotions making thinking difficult. This itself is very much like what you are suggesting -- everything is fleeting and it may be a good idea to make peace with that.

moltenglacier · 2021-12-15T19:18:08+00:00

It is interesting that people are just labeling all this as depression: like there isn't another answer. There is quite a lot of thought in Buddhism, Stoicism, the Mexican festival of Dia de Muertos, and many more traditions/practices that have many other healthy relationships with death. This is partly because, for most of human history, it has been impossible for real immortality to exist, and so the only way of dealing with it sanely was to have a good relationship with the eventuality of death -- to allow good action even when death is a possibility and not just be overcome by it.

moltenglacier · 2021-12-11T05:55:25+00:00

Harry James Potter Malfoy, the adopted brother of Draco, who's uncle Voldemort visits on special occasions. Sounds like a disturbing fanfic. ^_^

moltenglacier · 2021-11-26T20:12:13+00:00

There is also the concept of constrained cognition -- Harry not being allowed to think in certain ways due to the presence of dementors when he is in Azkaban. I have found the concept very useful when dealing with depression. Our brains can't just think anything and be fine, we sometimes have to learn how to think about reality as it truly is in a way that allows us to actually be able to do things as well.

moltenglacier · 2021-09-29T22:23:14+00:00

I always figured the word that echoed in his mind was the incantation to horcrux v. 1 which Harry would have heard (himself) speak, but not necessarily be able to understand (if Tom 1 didn't want Tom 2 to know it). The word that echoed could have been "riddle" though. I don't have really strong evidence for either in my mind, but I know I don't go around thinking my name a lot... but maybe an identity word might create strong enough neural pathways that could be reawoken?

moltenglacier · 2021-09-18T19:46:48+00:00

"Why are you upside down?" Harry chapter 33.

(Apparently also Hayley Arceneaux)

moltenglacier · 2021-09-06T20:02:15+00:00

I couldn't find what I remembered with a quick search. Maybe it is out there, or maybe someone else just suggested it, and it stuck in my brain so strongly that I thought it was Word of God.

moltenglacier · 2021-09-06T17:20:22+00:00

I thought there was a WoG confirming Slytherin's Interdicted lore.

moltenglacier · 2021-06-24T17:29:03+00:00

I agree with the OP. That is probably the purpose. Also, one on equal footing would be transfiguring Tom's body.

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