To the moon, troll, to the moon!

[sionnsar]

They’ll be threatened with Serious Bodily Harm and Bible Recitation.

Not the Bible Recitation!?! How could you even think such a thing...?

[Tax-chick]

Ghastly, isn’t it? They can call Social Services, “Mom made us sit in chairs and listen to her repeat psalms in English AND Spanish!”

[sionnsar]

Oh. Well that's not so bad then if it's only English and Spanish. It's not as if you gave it to them in Gaelic (Na Sailm Gaidhlaige):

1 Is e Dia fèin a's buachaill dhomh,
cha bhi mi ann an dìth.
2 Bheir e fa'near gu'n luidhinn aios
air cluainibh glas' le sith
Is fòs ri taobh nan aimnichean
thèid seachad sios gu mall,
A ta e ga mo threòchrachadh,
gu min rèidh anns gach ball.

3 Tha 'g aisig m'anam' dhomh aìr ais:
's a' treòrachadh mo cheum
Air slighibh glan' na fireantachd,
air sgàth 'dheadh ainme fèin.
4 Seadh fòs ged ghluaisinn eadhon trìd
ghlinn dorcha sgàil' a' bhàis,
Aon olc no urchuid a theachd orm
ni h-eagal leam 's ni 'n càs;

5 Air son gu bheil thu leam a ghnàth,
do lorg, 's do bhata treun,
Tha iad a' tabhairt comhfhurtachd
is fuasglaidh dhomh a'm' fheum.
6 Dhomh dheasaich, bord air beul mo nàmh:
le h-oladh dh'ung mo cheann;
Cur thairis tha mo chupan fòs,
aig meud an làin a t'ann.

7 Ach leanaidh maith is tròcair rium,
an cian a bhios mi beò:
Is còmhnuicheam an àros Dè,
ri fad mo rè 's mo lò.

[fanfan]

You’ll get it done.

;-)

[Tax-chick]

That sure is a glarby-looking language.

[NicknamedBob]

"I meant that Wednesday will sit next to me and read Tacitus, if nothing better offers."

See if you can interest her in Beverly Cleary's "The Mouse and the Motorcycle". It's a good read.

[sionnsar]

Yup. Second one done. All but one of these are new versions of documents I’ve been through before, ~80 pages or so.

[fanfan]

There’s got to be a better way...

[sionnsar]

Well, the orthography is quite different from English — it’s quite precise in capturing the phonetics, but the rules are relatively simple.

[sionnsar]

There is: I have marked-up copies but I don't entirely trust them because they haven't given the baseline for markup and some of these have been through several changes since I last reviewed them. It's just best I look at the about-to-be-published versions and compare against my report from the last time I reviewed these.

I'll easily finish all the rest of the re-reviews tomorrow, and probably the review of one just put out for public review too.

[sionnsar]

So do you have snow yet? The weather here has been unusually warm the last few days.

[sionnsar]

Guess that stopped things.

[NicknamedBob]

Maybe they have snew.

[fanfan]

We have grief.

Here

:-(

[sionnsar]

Ugh. I am sorry.

[Monkey Face]

Life is good. And I’m going to bed. Y’all be good, now!
See you tomorrow!

[sionnsar]

G’night.

[NicknamedBob]

Must every world in the Galaxy be infested with termites?

N = N* fp ne fl fi fc fL

This is the Drake Equation. The L term at the end refers to the length of time a civilization remains able to communicate to another possible civilization.

We're running out of time.

[sionnsar]

We're running out of time.

NnBob, could you pick up some more, please, next time you're by the supermarket? Gotta keep the spices replenished.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

I grew up in the city, and I still hate socks and shoes...LOL...