Awww those pon and zi drawings are too cute! If you don’t already know them you should check out the link Loe posted. I also just found the myspace page of the guy that drew them, and turns out he deliberately didn’t specify genders so they could relate to everyone…and he’s gay too, so, cool!
As the title suggests I am again procrastinating. I’ve got my final exam on Wednesday and it’s a real killer. It’s the one I mentioned before where I have to translate Old High German, Old English, and Gothic texts, as well as identify phonology changes in the languages, and write 2 essays relating to Comparative Germanic Philology.
I so cannot wait for this exam to be over. All these dead languages are making my head explode. This is most likely going to be the worst exam I’ve ever taken, and given that I’ve been taking exams every year since I was 16, that’s saying something. There’s just so much to revise, everyone I’ve spoken to is finding it really difficult to revise everything we have to..some people are just leaving out the whole translation bit cause it’s just basically impossible and it’s only worth 25% of the whole exam. I’ve done the least work on it out of all the sections too, but I’m still hoping I’ll manage to get some marks for it.
On a final note, I thought I’d give everyone a treat and post an example of Mark’s Gospel ala Wulfila, in Gothic. First person to correctly translate it wins a prize 😀 (ok that’s a joke…)
Make a sound version of it, pleeease 😀
Meanwhile I’m in complete awe. That anyone could read it in the olden days is already beyond me, and they even spoke it. That you can read it is just wow.
*proud girlfriend moment*
My best guess would be that it is the bit about the man in the synagogue with the unclean spirit?
Jah en dan iets over de Farizeeers en over Jesus in de Sinai woestijn…
Kat told me over the phone that I wasn’t correct..no prize for me LOL
And yes Niels, those are the only words I can read too haha. Synagogue, Galeilaia, Farasees, Jesus and Herodotus…
Also, I think this Mark disciple was secretely a Jamaican Goth. Line 3: “Jah {qath du thamma} mann! Relaaax!”
LOL! ‘jah’ actually means ‘and’ in Gothic which is very confusing! Well, I’ll put you out of your misery and tell you it is from the beginning of Chapter 3. http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=48&chapter=3&version=31