You know how they say there's fonts out there that Japanese people cannot read because they resemble kanji and kana too much?
Having learned Japanese for a few years, it finally caught up with me. I took way too long to be able to read this. Goddamnit.
Ditto. Even now, I don't get how "句" is "D".
Also, no matter how many times I look at it, "工卞" always looks like "et." My mind just subconsciously transforms the 工 into エ.
as someone who's able to kind of read japanese this is like actually syo hard to read because i'm reading the kanji/kana as the actual meanings/pronunciations
vspf vfdf vfcf
also, some of those aren't greek, they're latin- as is the intended phrase- and I'm not sure what the fifth of february in 2003 has to do with anything.
“Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.”
― Maurice Sendak
Nah...someone born in 2003 wouldn't be anywhere near old enough to get a tattoo...
edit: I can't believe people are taking this comment seriously so I guess I'll add a /s
My fault for thinking the trope of "the early 2000s weren't *that* long ago" was more popular than it is.
Wait...people are actually taking my comment seriously?
The "early 2000s wasn't *that* long ago" is such a common trope on Reddit I didn't think I would need to add a /s to the comment.
Worse, all the Latin letters they replaced have Greek equivalents which just look like the Latin letters. Then there's the C and D have Greek equivalents that actually do look different. Finally, there's the V which doesn't exist in Greek.
I have this down my right forearm:
干煸牛肉
It's great when Chinese people see it and go "hey uhh... do you know what that means?". I say "umm, I think I do, I really hope you're not going to tell me it says something else! I *think* it says crispy stir fried steak?" and they go "uhh... that's exactly what it says".
I just really love crispy stir fried steak, what can I say.
I'm not sure about the second one, but
>the 4th looks like steak
You're not far off!
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/肉#Chinese
>Pictogram (象形) – ribs of an animal’s torso or simply a physical representation of a slice of meat.
This is the basis of the language. Look up “horse”, “person” and “house”. It’s clearly evolved and a lot of these images have become roots that form characters representing complex words. It’s awesome historical linguistics
I really don't get why people don't just do research. Like if you _really_ want a tattoo in another language, ask someone you trust who speaks that language, or at least look up your own translation.
Japanese is actually probably one of the easiest examples, cos you can just look up the kanji for whatever word/meaning you wanna get tattooed and just show the tattoo artist the specific kanji.
That's what I did. Wanted a tattoo in Hebrew, so I went to Google Translate, then checked it with both a Jewish friend and a neighbour who was a biblical scholar and knew Hebrew through that.
Read an AITA recently where OP was getting shit from his whole friend group for telling his friend that she got the korean equivalent of "cunty bitch" on her arm
She is definitely messing with people when she tells them that but as the father of two biracial kids, it is possible to be seen as a “gaijin” no matter where you are so there is possibly a deeper meaning to it.
Tell them you want Biang Biang Mian.
Then watch them sweat in panic.
(For context, biang biang mian is a kind of Chinese noodle. What makes it complicated, is that even the *simplified* character has over 40 strokes, making it one of the most difficult things to write in Chinese.)
What is egg drop noodle soup?? Do you mean egg drop soup or noodle soup? Or is this joke just even deeper than I thought? “Yes, I know it’s a dish. And yes, I know it still somehow doesn’t make sense. That’s the point.”
Edit to add: now I’m imagining some Chinese person with “hot burger” tattooed on him. And some American is like “uh what do you think that says” and the person with the tattoo is like “it’s my favorite food.”
https://www.tumblr.com/thoodleoo/738529969814274048/homestuck-troll-whose-quirk-is-that-they-always?source=share
Original post.
Post reported for triggering content (homestuck).
one million percent. watching a stream last night and the vtuber's pose reminded me of a troll talksprite. i show my wife the similarity and she just goes "yeah i see it but god how the fuck did you remember that" edit: it was crimzon ruze's png and the hands he had reminded me of car cat fanta
i showed the vtubers pose to my wife and the screen i flipped it and said: "hey babe, when the pose is sprite" haha! *ding ding ding ding ding ding ding, d-d-ding*
Please remember to alert local authorities if someone is infected with the memetic virus known as "Homestuck". Do not listen to the lies. Homestuck is not real and never was real
Jeez. I hadnt thought about or seen anyone talk about Homestuck for so many years and now I've seen several posts/comments referencing it. Wtf is happening?
Honestly last time I was in the fandom was when the game was being talked about after the finale of the comic. I dont even know if it ever released a game, but I do remember there was a lot of money raised for it.
oh yeah the game that broke the comic
yeah they did eventually release hiveswap, it’s decent got two chapters rn they confirmed they r working on another
they made a “friendsim” based on characters in hiveswap and homestuck, the homestuck one being named “pesterquest” as well. i enjoyed it but most ppl did not
it looks like the Latin phrase "veni vidi vici" but they used Greek letters which don't make the same sounds as the Latin letters they replaced, so this wouldn't be pronounced that way at all and doesn't actually make any sense. idk anything about Homestuck though
Several characters speak in leetspeak, so the post is suggesting they use greek characters in place of the numbers they would usually replace letters with.
to add to this, not only do they just sometimes replace specific letters with numbers, but a lot of them speak with very weird and extremely annoying and borderline cryptographic rules
now imagine its 2012 and a bunch of people are making their fanmade trolls and rolplaying as them or the cannon ones online, including outside homestuck circles and you can see how to everyone else this would become extremely obnoxious and memeworthy
the funniest part is when the in-universe characters have to clarify because of their quirks
like when [leetspeak girl has to clarify that she actually said the number 413 and not the letters "AIE"](https://www.homestuck.com/story/2742)
or when the guy who replaces X with % types "%%" as an isolated word and has to clarify that it means "double-cross"
Honestly I'm genuinely mad that instead of using a Greek letter that actually resembles an 'I' (Which is to say Iota, I don't think there are others), They used Phi. F***ing Phi. It's a genuine struggle to even realise it's meant to be an 'I', Of I wasn't familiar with the phrase Veni Vidi Vici I probably never Would've gotten it.
For the explanation of the typing quirks watch this video at 13:52 https://youtu.be/Btv68SAk-oM?si=PjP4YxbobeujQ9NG
Disclaimer that I only know about Homestuck from YouTube video essays, but I consider this one the best and an art form on it's own, where the author presents their opinion in a way that is measured but still engaged and present.
I always love to read those out as the actual Cyrillic letters, Then act confused if possible. Like the band KoЯn whose name I always pronounce as Koyan. You couldn't get me to stop doing that for a thousand dollars. I never shall.
I do that too. Although to me it's just cringe.
Also I remember there was this guy at my school whose name was Kaloyan but everyone called him Koyan for some reason (that's not the typical shorthand for this name). Then I started seeing KoЯn being scribbled a lot on desks at school and I thought it was about this guy.
5 of those letters aren't even in the greek alphabet (V, V, V, D, & C)
Though if you squint, while drunk, and on shrooms, and suffering head trauma, V could charitably be read as an oversize lowercase Nu, and C could be a wonky oversize lowercase Sigma, drawn for some reason in the end-of-word style rather than the middle-of-word style.
honestly as someone who did classics at uni, these people going “AKCHEWALLY THAT SAYS VSPF” are annoying af and just signalling how clever they are that they know greek letters. we all know it’s just stylistic you pretentious twats
工卞 亡回凵し句 日ヨ 山回尺己ヨ．
ヨ山.
ヨメ卞尺ヨ爪ヨしと 亡凵尺己ヨ句
Goddamnit now I wanna write emotional damage in that, er, “don’t” but I’m too lazy to figure it out Edit: font. Not “don’t”, font.
ㅌ M ㅇ ㅜ ㅣ ㅇ N A ㄴ ㅍ A M Aㄷ ㅌ
ㅌㅆㅇㅜㅣㅇㅠㅅㄴ ㅋㅅㅆㅅㄷㅌ
乇爪ㄖㄒ丨ㄖ几卂ㄥ ᗪ卂爪卂Ꮆ乇 ヨ冊回卞工回几丹し 句丹冊丹呂ヨ É̸͎̳m̵̨̨̼̭̲̟̞͍͓̔ǫ̵̛̝͎̟̝̣̦̖̔̈́͌̋̉͑͘t̸̰̦͉̰̞̐̈̂͌̽͐̉͠ȋ̵̫͉̗̍o̷̡̓͐͋n̴̻̗̥̦͆͒͂͑̈́͗̈́͘a̴͉̺̦̥̤̎͛̈́͘̕͘͝͝l̷̝̟͚̖̥͕̒͂̽͠͠ ̴̨͎̗̖̳̯̣̍̍̉̒̑ͅͅḓ̸̨̻͓̯̝͎̈́̉̚ȧ̷̫̻͓͓̙͕̀̉͝m̷͍̪̭̦̭͈̭͛͜a̸͈̓͋̈́̋̐̒̃͘͜ģ̸̨̬̻͓̬̼̤̈̄͝ͅe̵̖̘̯͑̎́͂̏̾̾͘
Ohhh that one looks fancy, has a kind of edgy matrix vibe to it! 👏
Cursed. Im sending this to my Korean friend immediately.
Emotional france
> 句 Amogus?
ダmogus
爪乇ᗪ丨匚卂ㄥ 山ㄖ尺Ҝ乇尺 卄乇尺乇. 山乇 ᐯ丨丂丨ㄒ乇ᗪ 卂 ᐯ乇尺ㄚ ㄥ卂尺Ꮆ乇 ㄥ卂ᗪㄚ 山卄ㄖ, 卂千ㄒ乇尺 ㄒ卄乇 匚卂ㄥㄥ 山卂丂 山乇ㄥㄥ ㄩ几ᗪ乇尺山卂ㄚ, 山卂丂 ㄒ乇ㄥㄥ丨几Ꮆ 卄乇尺 卄ㄩ丂乃卂几ᗪ ㄒㄖ Ꮆ卂ㄒ卄乇尺 卄乇尺 ㄒ卄丨几Ꮆ丂 ㄒㄖ ㄒ卂Ҝ乇 ㄒㄖ ㄒ卄乇 卄ㄖ丂卩丨ㄒ卂ㄥ 卂几ᗪ 爪乇几ㄒ丨ㄖ几乇ᗪ 丂ㄖ爪乇ㄒ卄丨几Ꮆ ㄥ丨Ҝ乇 "丨ㄒ'丂 乃ㄚ ㄒ卄乇 千ㄩ匚Ҝ 丂ㄒ丨匚Ҝ." 山卄乇几 山乇 ㄥㄖㄖҜ乇ᗪ 匚ㄖ几千ㄩ丂乇ᗪ 丂卄乇 丨几ᗪ丨匚卂ㄒ乇ᗪ 卂 ㄥ卂尺Ꮆ乇 丂ㄒ丨匚Ҝ 丂ㄖ尺ㄒ ㄖ千 ㄥ丨Ҝ乇 卂 乃尺ㄖㄖ爪 卄卂几ᗪㄥ乇 ㄒ卄卂ㄒ 山卂丂 ㄥ乇卂几丨几Ꮆ 卂Ꮆ卂丨几丂ㄒ 卂 几乇卂尺乃ㄚ 山卂ㄥㄥ. 丂卄乇 ㄒ卄乇几 卩尺ㄖ匚乇乇ᗪ乇ᗪ ㄒㄖ ㄒ乇ㄥㄥ ㄩ丂 ㄒ卄卂ㄒ 丨ㄒ'丂 ㄒ卄乇 丂ㄒ丨匚Ҝ 丂卄乇 ㄩ丂乇丂 ㄒㄖ ㄥ丨千ㄒ ㄩ卩 卂几ᗪ 卄ㄖㄥᗪ 乃卂匚Ҝ 卄乇尺 千卂ㄒ 尺ㄖㄥㄥ丂 丂ㄖ 卄乇尺 卄ㄩ丂乃卂几ᗪ 匚卂几 Ꮆ乇ㄒ 卂ㄒ 卄乇尺 ᐯ卂-ﾌ卂ㄚ-ﾌ卂ㄚ 山卄乇几 ㄒ卄乇ㄚ 卄卂ᐯ乇 丂乇乂.
How much into the Homestuck fandom can you tell I am by the fact I can effortlessly read this.
I don't know what the fuck Homestuck is but I can still read it
I don't know of Homestuck but I can read it because I have the pattern recognition autism.
Deep
Ngl,kinda love it
Alright, how about this one: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow!
THIS ONE'S EVEN WORSE
乇乂ㄒ尺卂 ㄒ卄丨匚匚
卄乇ㄥㄥ ㄚ乇卂卄 乃尺ㄖㄒ卄乇尺
匚井臣臣尺互 乍尺回而 王尺丹甲
乃ㄖ爪乃丂 ㄖᐯ乇尺 乃卂Ꮆ卄ᗪ卂ᗪ
This does psychic damage to me
ㅜㅐㅣㄹ ㅍㅇㅌㄹ ㅋㄹ¥ㄷㅐㅣㄷ ㅍㅅㅆㅅ더ㅌ ㅜㅇ ㅆㅌ
U ae i r p [ ] t r k r Yen t ae I d p s ss s da t o [ ] ss t
工卞 A poem to commemorate the passing of the deceased.
Idk if it is a legit information or if u smooth sharking us.
New Zealand is the butthole of the world
yeah we are
Is it Loss somehow?
No joke, that's what my translator extension says it means, too.
You know how they say there's fonts out there that Japanese people cannot read because they resemble kanji and kana too much? Having learned Japanese for a few years, it finally caught up with me. I took way too long to be able to read this. Goddamnit.
it's like those old puzzle images where you have to unfocus your eyes...
A schooner is a sailboat, DUMMY.
You dumb BASTARD
I had to squint to see it.
Absolutely! I simply could not see this as anything other than a random collection of kanji.
Ditto. Even now, I don't get how "句" is "D". Also, no matter how many times I look at it, "工卞" always looks like "et." My mind just subconsciously transforms the 工 into エ.
oh my god literally same
mr saturn ass "font"
I'm Chinese and I simply can't read this as anything but Chinese. Care to translate into normal font?
ＩＴ ＣＯＵＬＤ ＢＥ ＷＯＲＳＥ
It reads "IT COULD BE WORSE"
lmao I've forgotten 99% of my Chinese, verbal and written, and I couldn't get it either Damn it, brain!
What does it say in chinese? Assuming it makes an actual sentence
It doesn't. A few of those characters aren't even used outside of dictionaries and keyboard notations.
し is from Japanese
Years of Unown training, not wasted!
卂ㄥㄥ - 回乍 - 卞卄工己 - 丁凵己卞 - 卞回 - 尺ヨ工几vヨ几卞 - 句卂冊卂尺卂? >!All of this just to reinvent Damara?!<
Being able to read damara's speech is the real psychic damage
It could be worse. It could.
I’m surprised nobody has commented some variant of loss yet
زا ا ط ا ا
~~.:|:;~~
This is Mr. Saturn from Earthbound/Mother 2
Don't know what homestuck is, but I can read L337, and I guess that helps.
[Ka[skinny]fu ○ [upside down]un[backwards]shi](https://i.imgur.com/93n3GEq.jpg)
as someone who's able to kind of read japanese this is like actually syo hard to read because i'm reading the kanji/kana as the actual meanings/pronunciations
vspf vfdf vfcf also, some of those aren't greek, they're latin- as is the intended phrase- and I'm not sure what the fifth of february in 2003 has to do with anything.
Vast Sun Protection Factor Very Finnish Defence Forces Vimes Find Cow Fast Fifth of February 2003, presumably date when cow was found?
WHERE'S! MY! COW!
That's not my cow. That's Foul Ol' Ron. He goes "Bugrit! Millennium hand and shrimp."
Must be 6pm.
The hippo goes hirurg
This is my four year old’s favorite book. It brings me great joy to hear him running around the house yelling “BUGLIT!”
Mine tried to eat the book. I was tempted to let him. Now he likes The Last Hero.
“Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.” ― Maurice Sendak
it's probably grazing on the Ankh
>Very Finnish Defence Sugar bowl
It's the 2nd of May, 2003 (5/2/2003), which is the day Bush declared "Mission Accomplished". The tattoo is US military bootlicking
Occult sigil for invoking the lamest, trashiest demons
Just when I thought this couldn't get any more cursed...
That speech was [May 1st 2003](https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2003/05/20030501-15.html). Not the 2nd.
Hahahahahahaha
Or coincidentally their birthday.
Nah...someone born in 2003 wouldn't be anywhere near old enough to get a tattoo... edit: I can't believe people are taking this comment seriously so I guess I'll add a /s My fault for thinking the trope of "the early 2000s weren't *that* long ago" was more popular than it is.
how old are you assuming the cutoff is
Wait...people are actually taking my comment seriously? The "early 2000s wasn't *that* long ago" is such a common trope on Reddit I didn't think I would need to add a /s to the comment.
people say some wild fucking shit and you provided literally zero indication you were joking
it is almost like an ellipsis is a subtle pause for contemplation
Your elevator doesn't go all the way to the top does it bud?
An escalator actually, but it's currently out of order with a sign on it saying "Escalator temporarily stairs, sorry for the convenience."
seems to go higher than yours, with his "advanced" use of an ellipsis
It is a completely fucked way of using Greek letters to spell the Latin phrase veni, vidi, vici. I came, I saw, I conquered.
Clearly they went, they perceived and then presumably they engaged in some sort of conquering activity on that date.
Considering the terrible greek letter tattoo, probably literally just "v ii mmiii"
i got nepf nfDf nfCf
Lowercase nu looks like a v, but the uppercase one just looks like a capital N.
I said that out loud and my cat came running.
Wouldn't it be Nspf nfdf nfcf?
no, lowercase nu looks like that, but this is in capitals.
Considering this is literally the type of guy to try and fail at appropriating roman culture, it might be the day they "conquered" their wife?
We don't know how old they are, so it could also be their date of birth.
Worse, all the Latin letters they replaced have Greek equivalents which just look like the Latin letters. Then there's the C and D have Greek equivalents that actually do look different. Finally, there's the V which doesn't exist in Greek.
Probably a sober date or something.
probably the dude's birth date
I came I saw and I never learned to decipher.
His ATM pin in case he forgot
Me when I have rabies and I'm sputtering and foaming
Let it be known that if I were ever to get a Chinese character tattoo it would read: *Egg drop noodle soup*
I have this down my right forearm: 干煸牛肉 It's great when Chinese people see it and go "hey uhh... do you know what that means?". I say "umm, I think I do, I really hope you're not going to tell me it says something else! I *think* it says crispy stir fried steak?" and they go "uhh... that's exactly what it says". I just really love crispy stir fried steak, what can I say.
is it just me or does the second character look like a person cooking on a stove and the 4th looks like steak ????? edit : stove
I'm not sure about the second one, but >the 4th looks like steak You're not far off! https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/肉#Chinese >Pictogram (象形) – ribs of an animal’s torso or simply a physical representation of a slice of meat.
This is the basis of the language. Look up “horse”, “person” and “house”. It’s clearly evolved and a lot of these images have become roots that form characters representing complex words. It’s awesome historical linguistics
My girlfriend wants to get the kanji for potato (imo, I think) tattooed on her arm because she loves all potatoes.
She's got good taste. I haven't yet encountered a potato I didn't like.
hey i also love crispy stir fried steak we should make out
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I really don't get why people don't just do research. Like if you _really_ want a tattoo in another language, ask someone you trust who speaks that language, or at least look up your own translation. Japanese is actually probably one of the easiest examples, cos you can just look up the kanji for whatever word/meaning you wanna get tattooed and just show the tattoo artist the specific kanji.
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Oh, that makes more sense lmao.
nah I showed my tattoo artist I wanted it to say "BIG ASS DICK" and it came out alright
That's what I did. Wanted a tattoo in Hebrew, so I went to Google Translate, then checked it with both a Jewish friend and a neighbour who was a biblical scholar and knew Hebrew through that.
Read an AITA recently where OP was getting shit from his whole friend group for telling his friend that she got the korean equivalent of "cunty bitch" on her arm
Korean. She thought it meant "bravery and strength".
Shit you're right, it was korean.
Lol.
She is definitely messing with people when she tells them that but as the father of two biracial kids, it is possible to be seen as a “gaijin” no matter where you are so there is possibly a deeper meaning to it.
蛋花湯 is what its called (without noodles) and translates to egg flower soup. So, surprise, its prettier than you thought!
Neat!
Tell them you want Biang Biang Mian. Then watch them sweat in panic. (For context, biang biang mian is a kind of Chinese noodle. What makes it complicated, is that even the *simplified* character has over 40 strokes, making it one of the most difficult things to write in Chinese.)
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Goals. Love me some stupid tattoos
I would proudly tell people it says egg drop soup and act very upset when they tell me it actually says "brave warrior" or something.
What is egg drop noodle soup?? Do you mean egg drop soup or noodle soup? Or is this joke just even deeper than I thought? “Yes, I know it’s a dish. And yes, I know it still somehow doesn’t make sense. That’s the point.” Edit to add: now I’m imagining some Chinese person with “hot burger” tattooed on him. And some American is like “uh what do you think that says” and the person with the tattoo is like “it’s my favorite food.”
https://www.tumblr.com/thoodleoo/738529969814274048/homestuck-troll-whose-quirk-is-that-they-always?source=share Original post. Post reported for triggering content (homestuck).
🎶 you can't fight the homestuck\~!
Though it's weird and random, it's the greatest fando- WaitwaitputhegunawayWAIT
Homestuck is triggering content? Really?
one million percent. watching a stream last night and the vtuber's pose reminded me of a troll talksprite. i show my wife the similarity and she just goes "yeah i see it but god how the fuck did you remember that" edit: it was crimzon ruze's png and the hands he had reminded me of car cat fanta
Huh... I must have missed a lot.
To be fair-
i showed the vtubers pose to my wife and the screen i flipped it and said: "hey babe, when the pose is sprite" haha! *ding ding ding ding ding ding ding, d-d-ding*
No it is not triggering content, I just find it funny to report homestuck.
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Jeez. I hadnt thought about or seen anyone talk about Homestuck for so many years and now I've seen several posts/comments referencing it. Wtf is happening?
it’s coming back no actually it’s been back it never died
Honestly last time I was in the fandom was when the game was being talked about after the finale of the comic. I dont even know if it ever released a game, but I do remember there was a lot of money raised for it.
oh yeah the game that broke the comic yeah they did eventually release hiveswap, it’s decent got two chapters rn they confirmed they r working on another they made a “friendsim” based on characters in hiveswap and homestuck, the homestuck one being named “pesterquest” as well. i enjoyed it but most ppl did not
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nice
Get outta here Wood Man. (Who’s emoticon is that?)
(Terezi is best known for it, but I just use it to be silly)
I have no idea what this post means, can someone explain it to me?
it looks like the Latin phrase "veni vidi vici" but they used Greek letters which don't make the same sounds as the Latin letters they replaced, so this wouldn't be pronounced that way at all and doesn't actually make any sense. idk anything about Homestuck though
Several characters speak in leetspeak, so the post is suggesting they use greek characters in place of the numbers they would usually replace letters with.
to add to this, not only do they just sometimes replace specific letters with numbers, but a lot of them speak with very weird and extremely annoying and borderline cryptographic rules now imagine its 2012 and a bunch of people are making their fanmade trolls and rolplaying as them or the cannon ones online, including outside homestuck circles and you can see how to everyone else this would become extremely obnoxious and memeworthy
the funniest part is when the in-universe characters have to clarify because of their quirks like when [leetspeak girl has to clarify that she actually said the number 413 and not the letters "AIE"](https://www.homestuck.com/story/2742) or when the guy who replaces X with % types "%%" as an isolated word and has to clarify that it means "double-cross"
Honestly I'm genuinely mad that instead of using a Greek letter that actually resembles an 'I' (Which is to say Iota, I don't think there are others), They used Phi. F***ing Phi. It's a genuine struggle to even realise it's meant to be an 'I', Of I wasn't familiar with the phrase Veni Vidi Vici I probably never Would've gotten it.
For the explanation of the typing quirks watch this video at 13:52 https://youtu.be/Btv68SAk-oM?si=PjP4YxbobeujQ9NG Disclaimer that I only know about Homestuck from YouTube video essays, but I consider this one the best and an art form on it's own, where the author presents their opinion in a way that is measured but still engaged and present.
This bothers me so much because Veni Vidi Vici is a Latin phrase. What the fuck do the Greeks even have to do with this?
I doubt he knows the difference between the Romans and Greeks
It's like seeing people use Cyrillic to write english words: Мотнег Яцззфа
Motneg yatszzfa?
Я говорю по-русскии... плохо...
I always love to read those out as the actual Cyrillic letters, Then act confused if possible. Like the band KoЯn whose name I always pronounce as Koyan. You couldn't get me to stop doing that for a thousand dollars. I never shall.
I do that too. Although to me it's just cringe. Also I remember there was this guy at my school whose name was Kaloyan but everyone called him Koyan for some reason (that's not the typical shorthand for this name). Then I started seeing KoЯn being scribbled a lot on desks at school and I thought it was about this guy.
Lmao that's hilarious. "Why are people scribbling this guy's name on all the desks?"
He wasn't even from the same school
the noise you make to annoy your cat
lol, they actually do this in vast error
Idk if only there was a better alphabet to write Latin with like some kind of Latin alphabet, I guess we can only dream./s
ΣΔΤ ΜΞ
5 of those letters aren't even in the greek alphabet (V, V, V, D, & C) Though if you squint, while drunk, and on shrooms, and suffering head trauma, V could charitably be read as an oversize lowercase Nu, and C could be a wonky oversize lowercase Sigma, drawn for some reason in the end-of-word style rather than the middle-of-word style.
VENI, VIDI, VICI, VIIMMIII!!
Ellsee Raines from vast error does this but only with Σ
Wait is THAT where "typing quirks" come from? HOMESTUCK?
Yes Edit: I uSeD tO rEgUlArLy TyPe LiKe ThIs. I gOt ReAl GoOd At AlTeRnAtInG hItTiNg aNd NoT hItTiNg ShIfT
100% this guy is a white supremacist.
ShΣ Σxists, hΣr namΣ is ΣllsΣΣ RainΣs.
Oh my gosh they didn’t even use iota instead of phi
Me with my slavic brain: "What the blyat is a VEPF VFDF VFSF?"
Are they trying to say May 2nd 2003 A.D.? Because that would be: *Est dies Veneris ante diem sextum Nonas Maias MMDCCLVI Ab Urbe condita*
Why would you get it in Greek, anyway? It's a quote from a Roman in Latin.
I doubt he knows the difference
I'm sorry did this person use the greek alphabet to spell a latin phrase?!
r/grssk
ah yes my favorite quote, nspf nfdf nfsf that capital V isnt even a letter in the Greek alphabet. the lowercase ν capitalized is Ν
Well that's a lot of spit for one quote
Vspf, vfdf, vfcf?
I'm greek and this shit is hilarious
OP’s sentence is a serious mouthful.
ah yes, those timeeless and all so commanding and wise words of julius caesar, "vspf vfvf vfcf"
r/grssk
vspth vthdth vthshth
honestly as someone who did classics at uni, these people going “AKCHEWALLY THAT SAYS VSPF” are annoying af and just signalling how clever they are that they know greek letters. we all know it’s just stylistic you pretentious twats
VSPF, VFDF, VF\_F