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Hoe? o.o; .... >.> .... it all looks like squiggles mating to me.... ^^;; I think once upon a time I got as far as the first two words before my brain exploded. *nod* ^.^
I guess it shows how far I've come that it doesn't look like squiggles to me? heh eh...
I'd have to pull out my dictionary for some of it, but what I can tell just now is it has the ornament number followed by (I think) a notation that it's based upon some work by Aleksei Kochupalovii (and I totally just fucked up his name >_< I suck). Then that last sentence I can't make out at all.
Stupid cases and declensions. Yeah, my degree takes me places. ^_^
Could be worse. ^^ I bought an antique German book for a friend who'd taken German in HS and she was attempting to read it in the car... What she said was: "A... P.... um... .... spermie?...." I almost crashed. ^^;;;
Awww... ;_; I was hoping it had the story to go with the picture on the front... *pout* Aleksei, huh? >.> ... One of you Derr sisters needs to use that in a story. It's pretty. ^^;
o.O; Woah, waitasec... that upside-down v is an L?!? x.x;; *dies* No wonder I couldn't look anything up...
I'd imagine it's taken from a folk tale of some sort. The illustration is of that nature. The title is "The Magic Three"; which doesn't sound readily familiar, but then, I haven't read every Russian fairy tale. Yet.
Oh, I probably will at some point. It's one of my favorite Russian names.
Heh. It really did look like one too! I don't think we ever figured out what letter it was supposed to be, because neither of us could look at the book without laughing. ^^;;
o.o .... *supersleuths off in search of mysterious fairytale*
YAY! ^__________________^ Wasn't there a similarly named guy(prince?) in one of the Ivan tales...? 9.9 Hmm...
;_; I have a cute little transliteration guide at the front of both of my dictionaries, but... but... those letters looked nothing like the letters on the prettydangly! x.x Stupid cursive...
Good luck in your search. My googling keeps giving me shit about "magic beans".
I wanna say he's in like "Ivan and the Wolf," actually. And probably a bunch of others. Lyosha and Vanchka get around a lot in the fairy tales. ^_^
Ha, you should see the cursive I had to write. You start looping Мs and Лs and <>И</>s and damned if you know what the fuck you just wrote anymore. I'll have to get a snapshot of some of my work sometime.
Just be glad it wasn't Old Church Slavonic. A quarter of those letters don't exist at all and the rest you're willing to doubt on principle. The script in your dangly thing is a good impression of Old Church, actually.
Well... it's wasn't my intent to turn you away from your studies. ^^;
Old Church Slavonic is more or less the alphabet as it was when originally conceived. You mostly see it any more in churches, on icons, or fancy... things. The scripts style used for your dangly is of a similar style as Old Church, though the letters themselves are very much modern Cyrillic.
They just use the style 'cause they're out to get me it looks prettier.
Cursive Japanese is the most evil thing ever created by man, with the possible exception of cursive Chinese. x.x It actually makes less sense than Arabic. :P
*nods blankly and pretends she understood a word of that* ^_____________________^;;
It's really old writing that looks really good, but no one except monks with little to do the fill the hours anyway can read. And then they borrow the font to use with the modern letters to make everything look "better".
Kinda like when we get happy with the fancy calligraphy on certificates.
I fsking hate calligraphic Japanese. It's pretty...but I dont' think even the Japs can read it. They lie through their fucking teeth. "Oh, it means 'by the shadow of the moon, I wait for thee" or some crap when all it probabl says is "Your mama was here and she rocked all night"
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Date: 2006-08-25 01:50 am (UTC)o_O Little dangly thing?
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Date: 2006-08-25 02:01 am (UTC)^^;;; Dangly thing. Pretty, ne? ^^;
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Date: 2006-08-25 02:13 am (UTC)bah it's in that dratted script. x_x Stupid Russian's getting fancy with the calligraphy... *grumblegrowl*
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Date: 2006-08-25 02:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-25 02:22 am (UTC)I'd have to pull out my dictionary for some of it, but what I can tell just now is it has the ornament number followed by (I think) a notation that it's based upon some work by Aleksei Kochupalovii (and I totally just fucked up his name >_< I suck). Then that last sentence I can't make out at all.
Stupid cases and declensions. Yeah, my degree takes me places. ^_^
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Date: 2006-08-25 02:32 am (UTC)Awww... ;_; I was hoping it had the story to go with the picture on the front... *pout* Aleksei, huh? >.> ... One of you Derr sisters needs to use that in a story. It's pretty. ^^;
o.O; Woah, waitasec... that upside-down v is an L?!? x.x;; *dies* No wonder I couldn't look anything up...
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Date: 2006-08-25 02:52 am (UTC)I'd imagine it's taken from a folk tale of some sort. The illustration is of that nature. The title is "The Magic Three"; which doesn't sound readily familiar, but then, I haven't read every Russian fairy tale. Yet.
Oh, I probably will at some point. It's one of my favorite Russian names.
yeah, в is a "v" and н is an "n".
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Date: 2006-08-25 02:59 am (UTC)o.o .... *supersleuths off in search of mysterious fairytale*
YAY! ^__________________^ Wasn't there a similarly named guy(prince?) in one of the Ivan tales...? 9.9 Hmm...
;_; I have a cute little transliteration guide at the front of both of my dictionaries, but... but... those letters looked nothing like the letters on the prettydangly! x.x Stupid cursive...
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Date: 2006-08-25 03:12 am (UTC)I wanna say he's in like "Ivan and the Wolf," actually. And probably a bunch of others. Lyosha and Vanchka get around a lot in the fairy tales. ^_^
Ha, you should see the cursive I had to write. You start looping Мs and Лs and <>И</>s and damned if you know what the fuck you just wrote anymore. I'll have to get a snapshot of some of my work sometime.
Just be glad it wasn't Old Church Slavonic. A quarter of those letters don't exist at all and the rest you're willing to doubt on principle. The script in your dangly thing is a good impression of Old Church, actually.
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Date: 2006-08-25 03:18 am (UTC)Mmm.. Ivan and the Wolf... Ivan and Ailill.... *.*
@.@;; Kay. Note to self. Put off learning cursive Japanese for as long as humanly possible...
;_; But.. but... the stupid thing is only 16 years old... why would they write in some funky system if it's relatively new? *whiiiiine*
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Date: 2006-08-25 03:24 am (UTC)Old Church Slavonic is more or less the alphabet as it was when originally conceived. You mostly see it any more in churches, on icons, or fancy... things. The scripts style used for your dangly is of a similar style as Old Church, though the letters themselves are very much modern Cyrillic.
They just use the style 'cause
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Date: 2006-08-25 03:27 am (UTC)*nods blankly and pretends she understood a word of that* ^_____________________^;;
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Date: 2006-08-25 03:34 am (UTC)It's really old writing that looks really good, but no one except monks with little to do the fill the hours anyway can read. And then they borrow the font to use with the modern letters to make everything look "better".
Kinda like when we get happy with the fancy calligraphy on certificates.
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Date: 2006-08-25 03:37 am (UTC)*shakes head* The world is a strange, strange place...
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Date: 2006-08-25 03:43 am (UTC)Indeed, it is.
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Date: 2006-08-25 03:49 am (UTC)The should just sell those things year round
then I'd never have a reason to stick to my diet.no subject
Date: 2006-08-25 03:51 am (UTC)*.* For me, it'd be Cadbury Creme eggs... *.* *.* *.* OMG good...
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Date: 2006-08-25 03:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-25 04:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-25 09:51 am (UTC)I fsking hate calligraphic Japanese. It's pretty...but I dont' think even the Japs can read it. They lie through their fucking teeth. "Oh, it means 'by the shadow of the moon, I wait for thee" or some crap when all it probabl says is "Your mama was here and she rocked all night"
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Date: 2006-08-25 10:22 am (UTC)