{"id":31578,"date":"2012-12-17T02:08:41","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T02:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/12\/17\/omolara-oolong-thegoddamazon\/"},"modified":"2015-02-21T09:30:21","modified_gmt":"2015-02-21T09:30:21","slug":"omolara-oolong-thegoddamazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/12\/17\/omolara-oolong-thegoddamazon\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-31578 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/12\/17\/omolara-oolong-thegoddamazon\/attachment\/31579\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/files\/2012\/12\/tumblr_mevvxqT0dJ1qehul1o1_1280-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/omolara-oolong.tumblr.com\/post\/38113824994\/thegoddamazon-nyreen-kandros-cassandrugs\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">omolara-oolong<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/thegoddamazon.tumblr.com\/post\/38112204594\/nyreen-kandros-cassandrugs-tseecka\">thegoddamazon<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/nyreen-kandros.tumblr.com\/post\/38049295630\/cassandrugs-tseecka-samandriel-dajo42\">nyreen-kandros<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/cassandrugs.tumblr.com\/post\/38049081549\/tseecka-samandriel-dajo42-can-i-touch\">cassandrugs<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/tseecka.tumblr.com\/post\/38027922822\/samandriel-dajo42-can-i-touch-your-butt-in\">tseecka<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/samandriel.tumblr.com\/post\/38021494627\/dajo42-can-i-touch-your-butt-in-elvish\">samandriel<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/dajo42.tumblr.com\/post\/37732027213\">dajo42<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cCan I touch your butt\u201d in Elvish.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is so useful<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>No, this is not \u201cCan I touch your butt\u201d in Elvish. This is \u201cCan I touch your butt?\u201d in English, transcribed using the letters of the Elvish alphabet. There is a difference.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In Elvish, the letters of the alphabet correspond to sounds, not to words. The above text spells it out using one symbol to represent one letter of the original English, which is incorrect:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>c-a-n \u00a0i \u00a0t-o-u-c-h \u00a0y-o-u-r \u00a0b-u-t-t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you really want to spell out an English phrase using the Elvish alphabet, you would do so phonetically, which would basically equate to one symbol per phoneme (sound):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>c-a-n \u00a0a-i \u00a0t-u-ch \u00a0y-o-r \u00a0b-u-t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you actually wanted to write \u201cCan I touch your butt?\u201d in Elvish, one (very rough) translation\u00a0would be:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Annog nin daf pladan tele ci?<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Which, in Sindarin Elvish, roughly translates to, \u201cWould you give me permission to touch your rear?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Written in tengwar (the Elvish alphabet), it would look like this:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"image\" height=\"143\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/kNq4F.png\" width=\"777\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sorry for the blurry quality.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>damn, the lotr fandom doesnt fuck around<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tumblr.com\/tagged\/im-SORRY-but-that-post-was-nerdy\">#im SORRY but that post was nerdy<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tumblr.com\/tagged\/even-by-tumblr-standards\">#even by tumblr standards<\/a><span><\/span><a class=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tumblr.com\/tagged\/its-like-one-of-the-most-nerdy-things-ive-seen\">#its like one of the most nerdy things ive seen<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tumblr.com\/tagged\/and-im-just-ccrracking-the-fuck-up-about-it\">#and im just ccrracking the fuck up about it<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>THE BOLDED<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Damn. That was some hardcore nerding.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>omolara-oolong: thegoddamazon: nyreen-kandros: cassandrugs: tseecka: samandriel: dajo42: \u201cCan I touch your butt\u201d in Elvish. This is so useful No, this is not \u201cCan I touch your butt\u201d in Elvish. This is \u201cCan I touch your butt?\u201d in English, transcribed using the letters of the Elvish alphabet. There is a difference.\u00a0 In Elvish, the letters of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/12\/17\/omolara-oolong-thegoddamazon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3772,3771],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31578"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31580,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31578\/revisions\/31580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}