Comment on xkcd #2869: Puzzles

kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Glyphord@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My head cannon is that it’s being interpreted by Mouth who is adding his own artistic flair to the text. So the “ye” this and that are just him playing around with the words.

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  • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Him playing around makes sense the first time he’s translating the Spanish in the attic. It makes less sense when he keeps doing it after they’re running for their lives from the Fratelli’s, dodging booby traps and are facing yet another trap that is a full pipe organ made of human bones. And he’s clearly scared when he translates it. But, maybe he just has weird defense mechanisms, I don’t know.

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    • kakes@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Maybe he was just committed to the bit by that point.

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      • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        We’ve all been guilty of carrying the bit too long before

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Is your head cannon a front-loader?

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• Dumbkid@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Also “ye” in olde English is just pronounced the. It’s wasn’t a y it was used for the letter thorn which made the th sound. They never said ye. So there’s no way the Spanish would translate to fake old english

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  • Pipoca@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ish.

    There’s ye as in “hear ye, hear ye”. That’s a y. It’s an inflected form of you, much as they had both thee and thou.

    Then there’s writing þe as ye.

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s called “thorn”

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  • athos77@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Eh, technically, if the word following 'the' starts with a vowel sound, you're supposed to say tge-with-a-long-e - the apple, the orange, the event, etc.

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• palordrolap@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The dead pirate captain's name is literally a penis joke. I don't think anything in that movie is supposed to be legit.

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