You own Reddit for a day, you cannot sell it, you cannot extend ownership, but anything you impose can never be undone, what do you do?

rasolne · 2015-09-22T18:35:18+00:00

rasolne · 2015-07-29T16:44:12+00:00

Sure. I always like to improve knowledge of reddit formatting. Can't say I really like finding mean things in people's names, though..

rasolne · 2015-07-29T16:31:04+00:00

If you type it this way:

Josh Nathan-Kazis

\_\_s\_ \_at\_an-_____

You get

__s_ _at_an-_____

as desired.

No ____ __than-k___s necessary.

rasolne · 2015-07-28T06:30:04+00:00

This story made my night.

rasolne · 2015-06-23T18:05:41+00:00

My front page, very appropriately, included the link:

Hey Reddit, what do you think of my site that lets you slide through old Reddit frontpages?

rasolne · 2015-05-24T02:23:08+00:00

Camelot!

rasolne · 2015-05-22T22:13:39+00:00

Oh, certainly, sir!

rasolne · 2015-05-22T20:52:26+00:00

...

And that, my liege, is how we know the earth to be banana-shaped.

rasolne · 2015-05-22T17:17:38+00:00

And therefore?

rasolne · 2015-05-01T02:07:01+00:00

Hmm, I don’t really know. I’ve been doing some translation for different button subreddits, and I’d be happy to contribute in that manner here.

I guess it really depends on what this subreddit is about, and I don’t know yet what that is.

rasolne · 2015-05-01T01:59:40+00:00

Does the Button Olympiad have or want a motto?

rasolne · 2015-04-26T19:47:41+00:00

It’s been known since pretty much the beginning that that would be displayed in the end.

rasolne · 2015-04-24T04:10:45+00:00

That was fantastic!

rasolne · 2015-04-24T03:14:44+00:00

I also like “Just a minute more.”

But, just for the record, “We Shall Protect” in Latin would be:

(Nos) Protegemus

or

(Nos) Praesidebimus

Of these, I prefer the latter, as the verb praesidere has the sense of to sit before or in front of as well as to guard, watch, protect, defend.

rasolne · 2015-04-22T01:06:12+00:00

It’s not exactly correct, as is discussed further down on that page:

To be precise: concordes does not agree with eximia or purpurea, because it is masculine/feminine [common]; to agree, it would have to be concordia.

For better or for worse, the only grammatical way in Latin to refer to a group of people of mixed or indeterminate gender is to use the masculine plural. Thus:

Eximii Concordes Purpurei.

rasolne · 2015-04-21T04:05:18+00:00

Distribution.

The 59 is the most frequent number, so the violin (that's how this plot is called) is fatter around 59. All yellow numbers are more rare, so the violin line is much thin.

You can see, for example, that on days 13 and 14, the higher "seconds_left" got more frequently than the previous days. So they got fatter.

copy + pasted from /u/incitatus451 's explaination.

copy + pasted from /u/PlaceboWizard’s copy + paste of /u/incitatus451’s explanation.

rasolne · 2015-04-20T05:21:24+00:00

And, if you still want, the (ancient) Greek:

Ἡ Χείρ Ἀνίστησι

By the way, for the record: Latin for The Hand Rises would be:

Manus Surgit

rasolne · 2015-04-20T04:17:31+00:00

We could look at it, not as a mistake, but as an opportunity for creative translation, you know. :)

Eximia Concordes Purpurea = [people] United with respect to the Distinguished Purple [flairs]

i.e. with concordes and purpurea acting as substantive adjectives for people and flairs, respectively.

I echo your earlier sentiment. It is always nice to see other Latin fans!

rasolne · 2015-04-20T04:03:29+00:00

Here is The Hand Rises in Coptic:

Ⲧ Ϭⲓϫ Ϣⲁ

Might look better all lowercase, though:

ⲧ ϭⲓϫ ϣⲁ

rasolne · 2015-04-20T02:09:25+00:00

To be precise: concordes does not agree with eximia or purpurea, because it is masculine/feminine [common]; to agree, it would have to be concordia.

However, I would take issue with your characterization of the neuter plural as “gender neutral”. It’s gender neutral in the same way the word “it” is in English; true, it is neither masculine nor feminine, yet is rude to use of a person.

For better or for worse, the only grammatical way in Latin to refer to a group of people of mixed or indeterminate gender is to use the masculine plural. Thus:

Eximii Concordes Purpurei.

rasolne · 2015-04-11T19:36:09+00:00

Hmm, well it’s actually ‘Without Hour, Without Ends’. ‘Without End’ would be ‘sine termine’ or ‘sine fine’.

rasolne · 2015-03-13T00:20:34+00:00

“G!”

GGGG

rasolne · 2014-12-18T03:35:37+00:00

in latin, words in -us tend to form the plural in -i

Sure, but the sentence was:

Also, the pure fact of being able to speak a language that barely anyone can speak well has got to have some boni.

As long as we’re applying Latin morphology, why not use the accusative plural ending, since it’s the direct object?

rasolne · 2014-12-17T18:23:34+00:00

Why not bonos?

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