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Where I live there is a local legend about witches arriving on easter.
They take all of the naughty kids to blåkulla island where they boil them alive and eat them.
It is classic 'obey your parents' stuff.
These two are not children. But they have certainly been naughty.
And I am sure that they will taste just as good.
This is a slightly rushed easter picture. I have not had much time for art recently. But I felt that I should get SOMETHING out before the holiday fully ends.
So here is a small thing based on a tradition that nobody has heard about.
The first person who tells me what the witches are saying will get.. something. Or nothing.
In truth I just wanted to put a secret message in there.
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Posted by demonbunny3po 2 years ago Report
Something about raw seaweed.
What I got translated was:
"Did seaweed die raw?"
"Ouch! Go down!"
This did not translate well and I feel I am missing context on cultural things.
Nice picture though. Love seeing a witch over a cauldron.
Posted by VEkdal21 2 years ago Report
Thank you!
It is not only written in another language. I do not think that a translator will be able to do it.
Posted by VEkdal21 2 years ago Report
I will say that I am suprised about how much meaning the translator got from the resulting nonsense..
'Dog tång i rå?' would truly translate to "did seaweed die in raw?"
Posted by demonbunny3po 2 years ago Report
It recognized it as Sweedish, but I also did some checking in Norwegian and Danish. Got something that looked like it might mean something.
Sad I didn't see your reply before someone else figured it out.
Posted by Cruich 2 years ago Report
"Good catch this year?"
"Yes! Truly!"
Posted by VEkdal21 2 years ago Report
We have a winner!
Posted by Cruich 2 years ago Report
Your hint helped. When you said "It is not only written in another language" I knew what to look for. :)
Posted by VEkdal21 2 years ago Report
That is fair.
Posted by Any_ILL 2 years ago Report
I still don't quite get it. Like "Dog" and "Aj" are pretty clearly written backward, and I think the language is swedish (which I've never studied) but the rest of the words don't seem to work when written backward in Swedish. I'll try to work on it more to figure out what you did xD
Posted by c4nn1bunny 4 months ago Report
Try not fully backwards but a little bit backwards, something that still reverses 2 and 3-letter words completely.
Posted by c4nn1bunny 4 months ago Report
Oh my fuck! I have been puzzling on this for hours, trying to find some kind of mapping from english to the words they are saying. Because I assumed that's what "not another language" meant.
If only i took your solution and pasted it onto a translator, just to check, you know? :P
I even caught that tångsf is an anagram of "fängst", which is "(you) catch" in German. But that gotta be a coincidence, right?? XD
The "Nerklingev" messed with me so much, because it's the one word where the syllables and vowels didn't match up at all, and I couldn't think of any remotely plausible transformation rule.
Posted by c4nn1bunny 4 months ago Report
Un tev gaj ruh nam rlörtaf dem aöts räxoh! Ted ande tta aörg un rä tta aäral gis avensks!
(I hope Google translate has been kind to me :P )
Oh and please don't think I'm upset. It was a good puzzle, I was just making too many assumptions and was a bit unlucky. ^_^;
Posted by Cruich 4 months ago Report
I think I've got this one. Should I say it here?
Posted by c4nn1bunny 4 months ago Report
Shouldn't be any harder than the last one (unless I made some mistakes :P ), but feel free to share it if you wanna! :3
Posted by Cruich 4 months ago Report
"Now I know how to interpret their crazy nonsense! The only thing left now is to learn Swedish!"
Posted by c4nn1bunny 4 months ago Report
Uhh, applying the rule, and Google-translating it back, I get:
"Now I know how to flirt with cute witches! The only thing to do now is to learn Swedish!"
Now I'm really curious what you did. o:
Posted by Cruich 4 months ago Report
I fudged a bit -- wasn't sure about some of it.
Posted by c4nn1bunny 4 months ago Report
Ah. Do you speak Swedish, btw? Because that may explain some things. :D
Posted by Badviper 2 years ago Report
Casual banter between preds? Much love. ^^