<![CDATA[Latin nerds, I need you]]>Latin nerds, I need you!
Offering Elvish nerdery in return πŸ‘‡

Trying to translate "keep it secret – keep it safe" to , which I know is tricksy. Looking at verbs like servare and conservare, and adjectives for "safe" like tutus/salvus/securus...??

If you can help, I will write your phrase of choice in Tengwar (Elvish script)! Here's a sample of one way I write it – though I'll do straight lines πŸ˜…
I'll write them on a livestream and link image files for you.

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/7d07a255-bd18-41d2-a0e8-43c4d8b2985a/latin-nerds-i-need-youRSS for NodeTue, 14 Apr 2026 19:11:30 GMTMon, 13 Apr 2026 03:22:17 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Latin nerds, I need you on Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:23:31 GMT]]>@jeroen94704 Ooohh, a challenge in return!! To clarify, I mostly write the script – I know only a little Quenya/Sindarin, from very long ago, but am happy to dig into this a bit. Excellent quotation from an amazing band: worth it. πŸ™‚

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/alexglow/statuses/116395724714613823https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/alexglow/statuses/116395724714613823Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:23:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Latin nerds, I need you on Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:20:17 GMT]]>@alexglow

I'd love to have "A little learning is a dangerous thing".

I started my PhD thesis with the first two lines of this poem...

https://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/Classic%20Poems/Pope/a_little_learning.htm

And it's so very apt for many, many discussions!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/svw/statuses/116395712036593459https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/svw/statuses/116395712036593459Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:20:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Latin nerds, I need you on Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:07:46 GMT]]>@alexglow Either @phistorians or @Minimus might know the best way to do this

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://neuromatch.social/users/SRLevine/statuses/116395662788345005https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://neuromatch.social/users/SRLevine/statuses/116395662788345005Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:07:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Latin nerds, I need you on Mon, 13 Apr 2026 04:49:26 GMT]]>@alexglow An elvish translation of my favorite quote would be awesome! It's by Pink Floyd: "It doesn't have to be like this. All we need to do is keep talking".

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/jeroen94704/statuses/116395590723695701https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/jeroen94704/statuses/116395590723695701Mon, 13 Apr 2026 04:49:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Latin nerds, I need you on Mon, 13 Apr 2026 04:47:02 GMT]]>@alexglow that’s amazing. 🀩 man the best I can do is some Circular Gallifreyan but I have to have the chart open in front of me

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.art/users/jeffzugale/statuses/116395581299670936https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.art/users/jeffzugale/statuses/116395581299670936Mon, 13 Apr 2026 04:47:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Latin nerds, I need you on Mon, 13 Apr 2026 03:57:44 GMT]]>@alexglow Best I could come up with is "AbscondΔ• hoc, prōtΔ•gΔ• hoc" which translates to "Hide this, protect this." I'm 75% sure there's a more elegant way to phrase this, but it's been a minute since I've done any Latin translation.

Hope this helps!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodo.neoliber.al/users/Legit_Spaghetti/statuses/116395387400564244https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodo.neoliber.al/users/Legit_Spaghetti/statuses/116395387400564244Mon, 13 Apr 2026 03:57:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Latin nerds, I need you on Mon, 13 Apr 2026 03:50:11 GMT]]>This rainstorm has, as usual, gotten me excited to dig into the fancy writin' stuff – so please feel free to request words/phrases even if you don't know Latin. πŸ™‚

I've been writing notes/journals in Elvish *letters since I was a teenager, so am doing a little refresher to write more standardized script. For contrast, here's some of my usual chicken scratch.

I think it's cooler with the tehtar (diacritics), like above, but my writing is more legible with separate vowels, so I stick to that...

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/alexglow/statuses/116395357742620550https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/alexglow/statuses/116395357742620550Mon, 13 Apr 2026 03:50:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Latin nerds, I need you on Mon, 13 Apr 2026 03:36:24 GMT]]>@alexglow securus is more like securely, but I've seen tutus(tutum) used like that before, I think that's a good bet!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://merveilles.town/users/neauoire/statuses/116395303536200400https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://merveilles.town/users/neauoire/statuses/116395303536200400Mon, 13 Apr 2026 03:36:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Latin nerds, I need you on Mon, 13 Apr 2026 03:31:47 GMT]]>@alexglow Interesting. Give me like 20 minutes.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodo.neoliber.al/users/Legit_Spaghetti/statuses/116395285379118117https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodo.neoliber.al/users/Legit_Spaghetti/statuses/116395285379118117Mon, 13 Apr 2026 03:31:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Latin nerds, I need you on Mon, 13 Apr 2026 03:27:05 GMT]]>Honestly surprised that I can't find a full translation of LotR to Latin! There's one of The Hobbit: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/hobbitus-ille-the-latin-hobbit-j-r-r-tolkien

And a few seemingly abandoned projects: https://web.archive.org/web/20150123220432/https://www.eldalie.ch/~earendilyon/

Plus a couple of short clips: https://youtu.be/2FQWhPfhRwU

...but yeah, nope :0

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