emilyenrose:

fadeverb:

emilyenrose:

theshitpostcalligrapher:

crunchbuttsteak:

theshitpostcalligrapher:

this one’s a shitpostgenerator folks, we’ve gone full circle

I kinda wish this was in Greek so I could say that this was posted outside Troy in circa 1179 BC.

My friend if you could get me a reliable translation into ancient Greek I would be happy to put a shitload of effort into making it into a small clay inscription sign 

CHALLENGE ACCEPTED.

μνημειον τι φιλιον· ὁι ἱπποι μεγαλοι και ὑποπτοι οὐκ ἐνθαδε μενειν ἐξεστιν.

mnemeion ti philion: hoi hippoi hypoptoi kai megaloi ouk enthade menein exestin.

Literally: [a] friendly thing-to-remember: it is not possible for [the category of] large and suspicious horses to remain here.

The accentuation is beyond me, but in my defence the actual ancient Greeks didn’t bother writing accents either. I’m cross that tumblr won’t render the breathings properly, though: the ones that are representing an h sound should curve to the right like (, and the others should curve to the left like ).

At last! The semester of Greek comp comes in useful! The semester in which we were marked off for every single error in accent use! Accentuation, if one wishes to bother with it, would be as such:

μνημεῖόν τι φίλιον· ὁι ἵπποι μέγαλοι καὶ ὕποπτοι οὐκ ἐνθάδε μένειν ἔξεστιν.

I’d be inclined to put the horses in the dative, since it’s not permitted to them to remain,and ἔξεστιν usually takes dative of person allowed plus the infinitive  of allowance; but I’m not sure if it works differently for inanimate objects, and don’t have the Giant Dictionary at hand.

I feel a little uneasy about the ordering of the adjectives, but frankly, I have always overcorrected for tucking everything between the article and the noun when it comes to those sorts of things.

oh shit no you’re right the horses should DEFINITELY be in the dative that’s really embarrassing. so it should be:

μνημεῖόν τι φίλιον· τὁις ἵπποις μέγαλοις καὶ ὕποπτοις οὐκ ἐνθάδε μένειν ἔξεστιν.

except that probably makes the accents wrong again. I was always shit at accents. please fix them for me!

the adjectives are ok where they are imo. I’m pretty sure there are some rules about adjectives of size vs adjectives of quality which i’m handwaving by turning them into a cute little kai phrase, but it’s all attributive so it’s all good.