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
Comment on xkcd #2869: Puzzles
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Now, I don’t want to be the asshole that shits on a nearly 40 year old classic movie… but why would the Goonie’s map, written in Spanish, rhyme when translated to English? And why would it translate into “Olde English” with a bunch of “ye” this and “ye” that?
Dumbkid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Pipoca@lemmy.world 11 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.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s called “thorn”
athos77@kbin.social 11 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.
palordrolap@kbin.social 11 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.
Glyphord@lemmy.world 11 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.
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 11 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.
kakes@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Maybe he was just committed to the bit by that point.
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 11 months ago
We’ve all been guilty of carrying the bit too long before
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Is your head cannon a front-loader?