How Much is "Mormon Interpreter" Worth?

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Re: How Much is "Mormon Interpreter" Worth?

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Sethbag wrote:Have it hand-copied on velum by ascetic monks in a secret monastery at the top of a cliff on an island in Greece, bound in the white leather made from an albino cape buffalo. Oxford Press? Pfft!


Let's engrave it on tumbago plates, put them in a stone box, and bury them on a hill for some future farmboy to translate. Maybe we can enlist those hardworking gents bcspace, Droopy, and Pahoran to dig the hole for the box. If one of them dies in the process, we will have our treasure guardian!
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Kishkumen wrote:
Sethbag wrote:Have it hand-copied on velum by ascetic monks in a secret monastery at the top of a cliff on an island in Greece, bound in the white leather made from an albino cape buffalo. Oxford Press? Pfft!


Let's engrave it on tumbago plates, put them in a stone box, and bury them on a hill for some future farmboy to translate. Maybe we can enlist those hardworking gents bcspace, Droopy, and Pahoran to dig the hole for the box. If one of them dies in the process, we will have our treasure guardian!

First we have to have someone translate it into Reformed Pig Latin, transliterated using Cyrillic characters. Other that that, I'm with you. If we pay some Java programmer to whip up a Chiasm Generator and run the text through that first, well that's just a bonus!
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Re: How Much is "Mormon Interpreter" Worth?

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Doctor Scratch wrote:Who will be the first person to post a Customer Review on Amazon? I don't think I need to remind you that this is your chance to make Mopologetic history....

I think that you should do the honors, Scratch! Copy/paste your review of DCP's article that you posted here in another thread. :biggrin:

I have to admit, I was disappointed when I went to the Customer Reviews and saw that there wasn't anything there. I was sure you would have posted something.
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Re: How Much is "Mormon Interpreter" Worth?

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I wish there was an applause emoticon. This thread is priceless. :biggrin:
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Re: How Much is "Mormon Interpreter" Worth?

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Before you bury it I would tear out a page or two so in the future someone can claim something really important was in that spot. It would be cool if it could be rolled into a 1 1/4" Denver International Airport circumference. That would allow for up to forty feet of missing articles that could be made up later. Who knows maybe it contained the heretofore unknown Book of Daniel, an eclectic collection of internet gems long thought lost. . :lol:
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Re: How Much is "Mormon Interpreter" Worth?

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Sethbag wrote:... transliterated using Cyrillic characters ...

Don't do it!
Use Hungarian Rune Script instead!
(see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_runes)

1. There are many people who can read cyrillic, so the writings would be criticized by many antis.
2. The Hungarian Runes are not known even by us. (In the last decades, there are attempts to reuse it, for example as road signs. Our ultra-right party seconds the motion. )
An accomplished fact: once their representative moved to use welcome signs with the name of the place. The mavericks showed three panels and asked which of them is the name of that locality. No answer - so it wasn't passed...
3. Its original name is rovásírás, from the verb 'to carve', 'to score' since the letters were usually carved on wood or sticks. (Iron rod would be better, I know. Maybe with a magical knife...)
4. Hungarians are Martians (or other ETs), so the Kolobian Card could be played.


Welcome sign in Old Hungarian script for the town of Bugac (Hungary, 2010)
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Re: How Much is "Mormon Interpreter" Worth?

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Ludwigm, that Hungarian Rune Script sounds complicated. All of the Provo Runes can be found on an ordinary 10-key adding machine.
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Re: How Much is "Mormon Interpreter" Worth?

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moksha wrote:Ludwigm, that Hungarian Rune Script sounds complicated. All of the Provo Runes can be found on an ordinary 10-key adding machine.

Is this complicated?

To gather information about the transliteration's pronunciation, see Hungarian alphabet.
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(As usual, You could echo it - having balls...)


You (English speakers) pronounce "i" as in fill, find, first...
You (English speakers) pronounce "c" as "k" or as "s" (and not as in tsar or tsunami)...
You (English speakers) pronounce "a","e","u" as Europeans the "e","i","a"...

...and Hungarian Rune Script sounds complicated?

I am crushed. Desolated.

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- Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message. - Umberto Eco
- To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin. - Cardinal Bellarmine at the trial of Galilei
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