question for mcb??

[presbyter]

Մենք հիբերնացիայում ձմռան համար ենք ՞

[musicus]

Presbyter, if you must post in Armenian, please provide an English translation.

[Southern Comfort]

Ω δούλος...

[presbyter]

Մենք հիբերնացիայում ձմռան համար ենք ՞

Are we (the forum) in hibernation for the winter?

Ω δούλος

O slave....

Will that do?

[Southern Comfort]

Will that do?

Not really.

[presbyter]

Will that do?

Not really.

Hmmmm - δουλοσ - manservant - δουλη - maidservant - and presumably for the (possibly overweight) Ethiopian catechised by Philip - δουλον - I give up!

[mcb]

Մենք հիբերնացիայում ձմռան համար ենք ՞
Are we (the forum) in hibernation for the winter?

I was getting there! Got as far as we are and hibernation... My friend Google, who usually helps with translating from languages I don't speak, wasn't co-operating over the rest of it, so I was (shock horror) going to have to look it up in a book. But Mr Bear's in charge round here, and oddly, he doesn't seem to take kindly to talk of hibernation. I'm beginning to think he's not a real bear.

[presbyter]

My friend Google, who usually helps with translating from languages I don't speak

Google not very good at Armenian, nor twenty of the thirty-two languages spoken across the range of the children in the parish primary school ..... no, no ... that went up to thirty-three today .... Latvian was added. I suppose the LMS would suggest I celebrated all school Masses in Latin ...... no-one would understand.

[SOP]

Equal misery for all.

[nazard]

... I suppose the LMS would suggest I celebrated all school Masses in Latin ...... no-one would understand.

I trust that you would.

[mcb]

I trust that you would.

Really? Presbyter is evidently a prodigious polyglot, but even he, I imagine, might falter over the readings, antiphons, Prayer over the Gifts, and what have you, at first hearing. It would take some pretty amazing school kids to do any better. Giving them a Mass all in Latin would give them a powerful signal that it doesn't matter what we're talking or singing about as long as it's pretty.

[presbyter]

Presbyter is evidently a prodigious polyglot, but even he, I imagine, might falter over the readings, antiphons, Prayer over the Gifts, and what have you, at first hearing.

Never mind in Latin - I'm going to do the above with the revised English (whenever we get it).

[Southern Comfort]

Presbyter is evidently a prodigious polyglot, but even he, I imagine, might falter over the readings, antiphons, Prayer over the Gifts, and what have you, at first hearing.

Never mind in Latin - I'm going to do the above with the revised English (whenever we get it).

Good luck, mate! What will you do when you find you can't actually pray these texts, or perhaps even believe in them?

[musicus]

Can somebody please tell me what this thread is all about?

I doubt it.

[keitha]

It's about certain regular contributors (ably and linguistically led by Presbyter) noticing that nothing much has happened on this forum for as long as I can remember and making something happen. I had assumed that there was something wrong withe site, and have been spending too much time comparing meerkats (about which, more news soon) to have time to post.