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So, do we think Mrs. Potts had sex and gave birth AS A TEAPOT, or did none of the magical servants age the entire time Beast was a Beast?

#deep thoughts

necromancelena

Die temu ad die

necromancelena

Hmm. Accidentally looks like latin.

chef-boy-ar-girl

It accidentally is latin

saanah

Accidental latin is my new favourite thing.

santapau

Found this in the margins of a medieval manuscript.

qqueenofhades

This is a very charming illustration and I do approve of Accidental Latin, but unfortunately, that is not what this (Fake) Accidental Latin actually says. Google Translate seems to think "temu" is identical to "timor" (infinitive, "to fear"), which would then be conjugated in first-person singular as "timeo" ("I fear"). "Temu" is not a word in Latin. So that is a very weird leap on Google Translate's part to turn gibberish into... something vaguely etymologically similar sounding? Hmm.

Next, "die" does mean "day," though nominative singular is "dies," i.e. "dies irae." It could be conjugated "die" if it was in ablative or locative case, but "die ad die" would mean something more like "day to day." "Ad" is in a "to" direction and "ab" is from, i.e. "ab urbis," and ablative case is used to indicate the movement of a thing. In short, "by" is not really a way to translate "ad"; we might want "per" here? (Through, by means of, etc.)

Not to mention, it would be weird to put one "die" at the start and another at the end The verb also usually goes at the end in Latin sentences, just for that extra bit of fun. So yes, in short, this is not actually Latin, and Google Translate is very bad at Latin in particular. Nonetheless, still charming.

nudistcat

@theshitpostcalligrapher

sekkitsune

Agree, @qqueenofhades, except on the matter of breaking “die ad die” apart. It’s a common structure in poetic and oratorical Latin to jam one phrase in the middle of another. I can’t think of an example exactly parallel to this construction, but I could believe a Roman poet would write it!

qqueenofhades

Ah, that is true. My Latin is of the reading-medieval-documents (particularly charters and/or chronicles) variety, where the sentence and usage structures are often more formulaic and there is less poetic license to move words around. There is obviously far less fixity for word order in Latin, since the conjugations explain how they grammatically relate to each other rather than placement in the sentence. (Coincidentally, this is why I used to say that the best feeling in the world was walking past a Latin classroom and not having to go inside it. Ahem.)

So yes: true that poetical Latin might be more at liberty to split the "die"-s up that far, though "timeo" (verb) is still more likely in most cases to go at the end, which would place them together anyway ("die ad die timeo," "day to day I fear" if translated in strict word order, which would make sense to an English speaker and sound more poetic anyway). Keep in mind, however, that my Latin is a) fairly rusty and b) mostly used for said formulaic legal document reading rather than freeform verse, so don't super-hard quote me on this.

sekkitsune

I saw that ablative “die” and that final -u on “temu” and thought of the ablative supine (as in “mirabile dictu”) but as you observe, there isn’t a verb that “temu” could be, and then also, the ablative supine requires an adjective, as far as I know.

But perhaps “temu” is a hapax legomenon (in which case we would need the rest of the text to gloss it) or a scribal error for temeratu, from temero, “I defile or disgrace”. In that case, and in true Tumblr form, I might translate it as “daily I disgrace, in the manner of the day”, with some errors attributable to the scribe.

qqueenofhades

....oh my god. You might be a genius. Because what else does Tumblr do but daily disgrace [itself, oneself, and/or numerous others] in the manner of the day, and make numerous scribal errors.

laurenthemself

how dare you say we error on the scribes

jtimu

this is what happens when you buy your latin on temu

thememedaddy

penandinkprincess

truly few things instantly put me in a bad mood more than humidity

WHY is the fucking AIR out here TOUCHING ME

get OFF

#TRUTH

groovysarity

I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue

mrshamill

everything about this is gold. Er, platinum.

nevereclipse

shout out to the buzzfeed 'which avenger are you' quiz i just did that had it's final question be 'which avenger would you want to make out with' and when i answered steve rogers immediately told me i was iron man #stonytruthers

#but where is the link to the quiz tho?

its-your-mind

katie was counting on brennen lee mulligan’s rage being what got her pitch views, but she was clearly not considering the sheer potential that rested within aabria iyengar’s unprecedented ability to run a one-woman guerilla marketing campaign

quiddie

Temporarily breaking kayfabe here just to say that I hope the lesson here is that whimsy is *way* more powerful than people give it credit for. It’s been genuinely so much fun watching people get in on the bit.

This isn’t about the win (because who knows if Tumblr even counts?! That was never the point!) and just about sharing the foundational conceit of Game Changer: once you figure out the game, how hard can you play it? And for a couple incredibly silly days, we all get to play together. 💙

Anyway, stan #Blarmy and I’ll see you in the cars!

horsefigureoftheday

I love you Sebago, I would die for you Sebago

fern-tdvuh

Ok first I need everyone to know that the owner posted another picture of Sebago and like. She could easily be a moose for Halloween.

Also, the official Guinness World Record for tallest mule was a dude named Apollo, who was the same height but weighed in at 100lbs heavier.

oneluckygoose

On A Bus is comedy GOLD. Katie has NO EXPERIENCE and she chose a table full of PROFESSIONAL DMS. They got MATT MERCER only for Katie to call him her FAVORITE in the same sentence as calling him MARK. There is NO STRUCTURE to the campaign. The entire point was to BREAK BRENNAN. It WORKED. Even AABRIA got flabbergasted, appalled; we heard Brennan let out the same “no” he did when BRITISH KRISTEN said blimey and cast a successful divine intervention, which made Brennan threaten to QUIT. Matt, king, desperately tried to HELP Katie’s world make sense when her entire goal was CHAOS. Katie introduces herself as the DRAGON MASTER. IN A ROOM FULL OF DUNGEON MASTERS. MY PEOPLE. THEIR FACES. Four DMs came to a dnd table without dice, meaning Katie must have told them to bring NOTHING. The only dice on the table were d6s on an episode of dimension TWENTY. Rick Perry had Absolutely no say in the set. The setting was destroyed within the first ten minutes. Katie gives LINT and a SINGULAR M&M as minis. Aabria EATS the m&m within thirty seconds. They battle NOTHING. Katie knows enough to say AIR to BRENNAN, MATT, AND AABRIA, to which Brennan Freaks. Katie successfully breaks three out of the four people at the table. The AC of the bus is 6 on a d6. The players DO NOT know who they are. A piece of lint destroys the bus in one hit. There is maybe(????) an episode two. Pure fucking gold. AGAIN THEY GOT MATT MERCER ON D20 FOR TEN MINUTES.

therealallecto

I loved everything about it. EVERYTHING

eels-eels-eelsrobot

In all the excitement of Brennan being annoyed, I saw no one mention the lethal levels of "perma gm excited to play in any game, even a bad game" coming off of Mark Mercer.

escuerzoresucitado

thestoryofaslut

about fucking time

fluffylandshark

Reblog to give the prev person some dopamine.

sewercentipede

reading the wiki for the american psycho movie every single thing it’s saying about christian bale has me in tears …….. he literally wanted the role so bad he got that buff in two weeks, rejected every other offer for 9 months while the producers tried to get dicaprio to be patrick bateman bc bale knew dicaprio would chicken out, went to dinner with the director and the guy who wrote the novel IN CHARACTER apparently scaring the shit out of the novelist, took the role for $50k, and then made all his costars think he was a giant freak bc he never fucking broke character, and APARENTLY LITERALLY HAS CONTROL OVER HIS SWEAT GLANDS AND USED THIS IN THE BUSINESS CARD SCENE

sewercentipede

ok thanks for the info wiki

fuckboysecurityllc

Hey Paul!

vevader3

It brings me comfort that, for a brief moment, Jared Leto genuinely believed Christian Bale was going to kill him with an axe

wetwareproblem

I just used the line “that’s not an asshole move, it’s a whole asshole ballet” and I’m kinda proud of it so it’s going here where it will get the recognition it deserves.