heeheehoohoo

i am not letting tbis become another homophobic yoda so no pfp

[effemimaniac]

gimmick blogs are like Hello can I make your post stupid and unfunny and ruin the notifications of a post forever

[translatingpostsintoitalian]

i gimmick blog sono tipo Ciao posso rendere il tuo post stupido e non divertente e rovinare le notifiche di un post per sempre

[untranslatingposts]

gimmick blogs are like Hello can I make your post stupid and not funny and ruin the notifications of a post forever

[retranslatingposts]

i gimmick blog sono tipo Ciao posso rendere il tuo post stupido e non divertente e rovinare le notifiche di un post per sempre

[sadeboymemes]

[hugtheteadrinkthekitten]

Uhhh @untranslatingposts

[untranslatingposts]

Disclaimer

I'm not an egyptologist or a linguist and my knowledge of ancient Egypt and Middle East civilizations is very limited, so everything that follows is just for shits and giggles.

Contextual analysis

Now… These are clearly Egyptian hieroglyphs. Only religious figures and priests were allowed to enter Mesopotamian ziggurats, and the scenario of an Egyptian foreigner being able to enter or even get close to a ziggurat is unlikely, which lead me to a couple back-of-the-envelope theories. The last one, which is the one I went with, is that OP is Egyptian and was referring to Mesopotamian ziggurats in the wide sense, as stepped, near-pyramidal structures. In this sense, stepped pyramids did exist in ancient Egypt, and "incidents" surely must've happened in one of them. They did not, however, serve basically any of the functions that Mesopotamian ziggurats served.

Transcription

Now onto the text. All hieroglyphs in Unicode face left, which is the cue to start reading left-to-right; I doubt OP knew they could, or wanted to, write in other directions. Using Gardiner's sign list, the text is transcribed as 𓀀𓀐𓀨𓀬𓁀𓀿 / 𓁡𓁿𓃔𓅪𓅀𓀊𓀊𓀇𓀇 / 𓀪𓀽𓀿 or A1 A14 A35 A39 A55 A54 / C5 D9 E3 G37 G2 A8 A8 A6A A6A / A37 A52 A54.

Note that I shifted the second duplicated hieroglyph A6A to the second line from the third: this makes the reading and translation easier.

Some of these hieroglyphs aren't very clear in the screenshot, for example the 4th hieroglyph in the 2nd line looks similar to the sparrow (𓅪), but the tail looks a bit similar to the swallow (𓅨) and the beak to a falcon (which would be 𓅃). In particular, the latter would make decent sense based on the apparent pattern followed by OP, wherein after looking at section A (and supposedly also the much shorter B) thoroughly, they started skimming through sections C to G in order and just looked at the very first few entries, before returning to section A.

I also took the liberty to take for granted that OP didn't want to write 𓀪, but instead the similar-looking 𓀫, which has the same meaning as 𓀬 in the first line and makes the translation more understandable.

Finally, I assumed all the hieroglyphs to be ideograms and none of them being phonograms, for simplicity and again because I don't think OP had the intent of using phonograms; and also because it's honestly funnier this way. That is, until I noticed 𓅀 doesn't have an ideogram transliteration in the table I was consulting, but only a phonogram one… I'll talk about this in a minute.

Pronunciation

A tentative, reconstructed actual phonetic transcription would be so exposed to assumptions about the time of writing and to mistakes due to me not being an egyptologist, that it would be madness for me to even try it. I'll opt for an almost Egyptological transliteration instead, which is artificial and not how Egyptian was actually pronounced in any time or dynasty, written in IPA. I changed some vowels at will, to make pronunciation easier or to get closer to the standard English pronunciation of Khnemu.

iː muːt qɛd qjis sɛdʒɛr mɛni

çnɛmw rɛmɛtʃ bɛhɛs bjn ɑː hɛnw hɛnw wɑːb wɑːb

ɑːfɛti ʃɛpɛsi mɛni

Let's not talk about the fact that I won't even try to conjugate the lemmas or add any affix.

(Un)translation

Finally, to the task I was called to carry out: untranslating this post. It's not an easy task, due to the fact that Egyptian underwent several grammatical and lexical changes throughout the centuries (for example, it was originally synthetic but became analytic); or, more immediately, the fact that OP simply threw hieroglyphs together and wasn't trying to construct actual sentences. Following this spirit, I just decided to half-ass everything and just go by heart, so here goes nothing:

My opp built [a stepped pyramid in] Qis [and promptly] died in his sleep [afterwards].

Khnemu weeped [because of] that dumbass [from the happiness], [all] "rejoice!"-ahh, "it has been purified!!!"-ahh,

"a Qis noble has died!"💀😂😂😂

Since, as mentioned before, 𓅀 is composed of two unilateral signs (𓄿𓄿) and in Egyptological pronunciation is a long vowel /ɑː/, and is thus clearly used as a phonogram, I decided to translate it as "ahh" for comedic purposes. I don't find this too dissimilar to how people use "ahh" in a way that's becoming increasingly disconnected from the original meaning of "-ass" and from the AAVE context.

I translated 𓀐 ("enemy") as "opp" and, controversially, 𓃔𓅪 ("weak calf") as "dumbass".

My hypothesis is that OP's opponent didn't found the entire city of Qis, but only supervised the construction of a stepped pyramid in Meir (Qis' necropolis), which looks vaguely like a ziggurat but is rather used as a tomb. Hence why they replied to a post about ziggurats.

I wonder if @sumerianlanguage knows someone here on Tumblr who could transcribe and translate these hieroglyphs more properly...?

[retranslatingposts]

yo im not gonna even try this one

[recreationaldivorce]

"you'll pay for this" - me as a cashier

[alsotranslatingtolithuanian]

"tu už tai sumokėsi" aš, kasininkas

[untranslatingposts]

"you will pay for this" me, the cashier

[retranslatingposts]

"tu už tai sumokėsi" aš, kasininkas

[iviin-855]

Cock?!

[translatingpostsintolithuanian]

Bybys?!

[untranslatingposts]

Dick?!

[retranslatingposts]

Bybys?!

[kvetches]

i'll just say what we were all thinking. the paris catacombs are lowkey performative as hell

[i-also-translate-into-lithuanian]

Aš tepasakysiu ką visi galvojam. Paryžiaus katakombos yra tiesiog velniškai apsimestinos

[untranslatingposts]

I'll just say what we're all thinking. The Paris catacombs are just so damn pretentious

[retranslatingposts]

Aš tepasakysiu ką visi galvojam. Paryžiaus katakombos yra tiesiog velniškai apsimestinos

[retranslatingposts]

wait fuck nevermind i already did this one

[kvetches]

i'll just say what we were all thinking. the paris catacombs are lowkey performative as hell

[i-also-translate-into-lithuanian]

Aš tepasakysiu ką visi galvojam. Paryžiaus katakombos yra tiesiog velniškai apsimestinos

[untranslatingposts]

I'll just say what we're all thinking. The Paris catacombs are just so damn pretentious

[retranslatingposts]

Aš tepasakysiu ką visi galvojam. Paryžiaus katakombos yra tiesiog velniškai apsimestinos

[translatingpostsintorussian]

всем привет! я перевожу посты, которые мне нравятся, на русский!

но я не один такой, поэтому вот мои блоги-побратимы которые переводят посты на другие языки:

германские: 🇬🇧 английский: @translatingpostsintoenglish 🇿🇦 африкаанс: @translatingpostsintoafrikaans 🇩🇪 немецкий: @translatingpostsintogerman @translatingpoststogerman @mistranslatingpostsintogerman @eingedeutscht 🇦🇹 австрийский немецкий: @translatingpostsintoaustrian 🦁 швабский немецкий: @translatingpostsintoswabian 🇨🇭 швейцарский немецкий: @mundart-ch 🇳🇱 нидерландский: @translatingpostsintodutch @translatingpoststodutch @translatingpoststonederlands 🇩🇰 датский: @translatingpoststodanish @translatingpostsintodanish 🇮🇸 исландский: @translating-posts-into-icelandic 🇳🇴 новонорвежский: @translatingpoststonynorsk 🇸🇪 шведский: @translatingpostsintoswedish @translating-posts-into-swedish 🇫🇮🇸🇪 финский шведский: @translatingpoststofinnishswedish 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 древнеанглийский: @oldenglishtextposts

романские: 🌄арагонский: @translatingpoststoaragonese 🇪🇸 испанский: @translatingpoststospanish @badlytranslatingpoststospanish @publicacionesencastellano 🇮🇹 итальянский: @translatingpostsintoitalian @translating-posts-into-italian 🇧🇷 португальский: @translatingpoststoportuguese 🇫🇷 французский: @translatingpostsinfrench @translatingpostsintofrench @translating-posts-in-french 🇨🇦 канадский французский: @translatingpostsinfrenchcanadian 🇻🇦 латынь: @latinare

славянские: 🇧🇬 болгарский: @translating-posts-into-bulgarian 🇵🇱 польский: @translatingpostsintopolish @translating-posts-to-polish 🇷🇺 русский: @translatingpostsintorussian @translating-into-russian-for-fun 🇸🇮 словенский: @translatingpoststoslovenian 🇺🇦 украинский: @ukrainingposts @translatingpostsintoukrainian 🇨🇿 чешский: @translating-posts-into-czech @translatingintoczech

балтийские: 🇱🇻 латышский: @translatingpostsintolatvian 🇱🇹 литовский: @translatingpostsintolithuanian @alsotranslatingpoststolithuanian @i-also-translate-into-lithuanian

кельтские: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 валлийский: @textpostscymraeg 🇮🇪 ирландский: @translatingpostsintoirish 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 шотландский: @badlytranslatingpostsintogaelic

греческие: 🇬🇷 греческий: @postgreekification @translatingpostsintogreek

[translatingpostsintorussian]

австронезийские: 🗼бикольский: @translatingpostsintobikol 🇮🇩 индонезийский: @postsinindonesian 🇵🇭 тагальский: @translatingpostsintotagalog @translatingpoststofilipino

уральские: 🇭🇺 венгерский: @translatingpostsintohungarian 🇫🇮 финский: @translating-posts-into-finnish @suomentaja

семитские: 🇸🇦 арабский: @translatingpostsintoarabic

сино-тибетские: 🇨🇳 китайский: @translating-into-chinese-for-fun

австроазиатские: 🇻🇳 вьетнамский: @translatingpostsintovietnamese

корейские: 🇰🇷 корейский: @translatingpostsintokorean

японские: 🇯🇵 японский: @translatingpostsintojapanese

тюркские: 🇹🇷 турецкий: @translatingpoststoturkish

креольские: 🇭🇹 гаитянский креольский: @tradikte-kreyol-ayisyen

изоляты: 🌊 баскский: @translatingpostsintobasque

искусственные: 🟨токипона: @mi-toki-pona-e-sina @translatingpostsintotokipona @translatingpoststotokipona @itranslatepostsintotokipona 🟩эсперанто: @translatingpoststoesperanto

другое: ➖азбука морзе: @translatingpostsintomorse ➗калькулятор: @translating-posts-in-calculator ➕литплюс: @translatingpostsintoleetplus 🔄расперевод: @untranslatingposts 2️⃣переперевод: @retranslatingposts 🍞фр.->англ.: @translatingpostsinfrenchineng 👎плохой перевод: @badly-translated-post

[official-german-puns]

Ich bin mit der Gesamtsituation unzufrieden.

[untranslatingposts]

I am dissatisfied with the overall Situation.

[retranslatingposts]

Ich bin mit der Gesamtsituation unzufrieden.

[lmaonade]

going on pinterest and commenting “hmm… i find this really.. pinteresting…!” on every single post i see

[translatingpostsintorussian]

lmaonade

захожу на пинтерест и пишу “хмм… мне это очень.. пинтересно…!” в комментариях под каждым постом

[untranslatingposts]

I go on pinterest and write "hmm... I find this very... pinteresting...!" in the comments under every post

[translatingpostsintorussian]

you think you're above me. you imagine that you and I are fighting on opposing sides. and yet when you turn my effort right back around into what it was born from you do not realize that you do nothing but fight fire with fire. like a baffled beast you lunge at the mirror not recognizing your own reflection. in repeating after me and those like me you become the one you crave so badly to destroy. we are the same.

[untranslatingposts]

[ironedsleeper]

@translatingpostsintorussian

можете ли вы перевести этот пост?

[translatingpostsintorussian]

ты считаешь себя выше меня. ты воображаешь себе будто бы мы с тобой сражаемся по разные стороны. но все же когда ты оборачиваешь плоды моих трудов обратно в то из чего они были рождены тебе невдомек что ты не тушишь пожар а лишь разжигаешь его. подобно сбитому с толку зверю ты набрасываешься на зеркало не узнав собственного отражения. подражая мне и таким как я ты превращаешься в того кого с такою жаждой хочешь уничтожить. ты и я это одно и то же.

[untranslatingposts]

You think yourself superior to me. You imagine that you and I are fighting on opposite sides. But still, when you turn the fruits of my labor back into what they were born from, you do not realize that you are not putting out the fire, but only kindling it. Like a confused animal, you pounce at the mirror without recognizing your own reflection. By imitating me and those like me, you turn into the one you so thirstily want to destroy. You and I are one and the same.

[retranslatingposts]

ты считаешь себя выше меня. ты воображаешь себе будто бы мы с тобой сражаемся по разные стороны. но все же когда ты оборачиваешь плоды моих трудов обратно в то из чего они были рождены тебе невдомек что ты не тушишь пожар а лишь разжигаешь его. подобно сбитому с толку зверю ты набрасываешься на зеркало не узнав собственного отражения. подражая мне и таким как я ты превращаешься в того кого с такою жаждой хочешь уничтожить. ты и я это одно и то же.

[identifyinggimmickblogsinposts]

It's just me and the most ridiculous, unhelpful gimmick blog on this website against the world

[translatingpostsintoitalian]

siamo solo io e il gimmick blog più ridicolo e inutile di questo sito web contro il mondo

[untranslatingposts]

it's just me and the most ridiculous and useless gimmick blog on this website against the world

[retranslatingposts]

siamo solo io e il gimmick blog più ridicolo e inutile di questo sito web contro il mondo

[kvetches]

i'll just say what we were all thinking. the paris catacombs are lowkey performative as hell

[i-also-translate-into-lithuanian]

Aš tepasakysiu ką visi galvojam. Paryžiaus katakombos yra tiesiog velniškai apsimestinos

[untranslatingposts]

I'll just say what we're all thinking. The Paris catacombs are just so damn pretentious

[retranslatingposts]

Aš tepasakysiu ką visi galvojam. Paryžiaus katakombos yra tiesiog velniškai apsimestinos