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eldin raigmore

τέλος δεδωκώς, Χθύλου, σοί χάριν φέρω. --- Θεόδωρος Φιλήτας

I can't log in to zbb any more because www.spinnoff.com's DNS has expired.

Can anyone translate this for me?

langover94 · Joined: 21 Aug 2007 Posts: 509 Location: USA

this is what an online translator came out with...

finally [dedokos], [Chthyloy], kin thanks to I bring. --- Theodoros [Filitas]

im guessing that means

"Finally ________, _________, i bring thanks to your kin. --- Theodoros [Filitas]

although, i cannot say that this is actually what it means. you may have to ask someone who knows greek.
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halyihev · Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 1:00 am Post subject:

No wonder I dislike machine translations!

The last bit is "I bring you grace", or perhaps "I thank you" might be more colloquial. Chthulou and Theodoros Philetas are names. Telos is certainly "end", the only one that I can't make out is dedokos, which is an adverbial past participle but I'm not sure of what verb.

My Greek is fairly minimal, I'm afraid. But I definitely don't think the machine translation is accurate.
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langover94 · Joined: 21 Aug 2007 Posts: 509 Location: USA

honestly i have no idea...

but i have to say that i did enjoy looking at the zbb... even if i wasnt a member.

and i hate online translators too!!! i just thought that i would give that one a try because i didnt have anything else that i could use.
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Serali · Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 3:10 am Post subject:

I have so much history there. And so many good things there......I miss the pretty scripties. Crying or Very sad

I'm sorry I just can't take this.....

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eldin raigmore · Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 9:32 pm Post subject:

http://www.translatum.gr/forum/index.php?topic=353.msg1236
and
http://www.rpggr.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=48
were found by CONLANG-L members.
Here are some of their proposed translations:

"Having at last been given [to you], Chthylus, I offer you [my] gratitude."

"[as a] close dedicated [creature]", or even "[as the] last dedicated [creature], Cthulhu, I have gratitude for thee", or "I hold thee in [high] esteem".

"Having been given [to you] as a fulfillment/consummation..." - or it (telos) is an adverb meaning "at last"

"Cthulhu, being one of your dedicated creatures, I offer my gratitude for you".

Apparently Olaus Wormius was a real person (though he never wrote that Latin "Our Cthulhu which art in the sea, hallowed be Thy name; Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in R'lyeh as it is in Y'ha-nthlei" or whatever it was, sorry, the weird names' spellings escape me).

Ray Brown thought Theodoros Philetas was a real person, who lived at a time when the dialect of Greek the above fragment is in was either not yet spoken or no longer spoken. But Wikipedia and every place else on the Web Google shows me, says Theodoros Philetas was fictional (though the bishop who (fictionally) burned his (fictional) works was a real person).