Random Thoughts Sechs: Eeeeehhhh...

[Kyriakos]

Do you have any way of determining how widely it has been read? Had the Greek-speaking world been dying for a translation of Lovecraft? Seems niche on two levels. And then, some one of those readers would have to bother writing up a review. Dunno. Hope you get some props.

It is still early days, not even a month since publication ^_^
At least i don't have to worry whether or not it is the current best edition - despite the editor, who changed some stuff, but fortunately not the spirit or most of the text.

Anyway, at least all 48 footnotes survive, along with specific attribution (that i wrote them). I think the book can sell ok, cause the publisher is quite well-known and financially secure.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I was doing a survey, and I guess the researcher had goofed up, because I was asked whether I agree or disagree with "Placeholder Question."

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I was doing a survey, and I guess the researcher had goofed up, because I was asked whether I agree or disagree with "Placeholder Question."

In that case, there's no wrong answer, is there?

 

[Takhisis]

You had better agree with there being a placeholder question.

And notify them of it.

 

[metatron]

@haroon has listed as a location: Dunya.

Now... i understand what "dunya" means just fine (relatively speaking).
But i apparently had forgotten about this google maps feature.
So, yeah, if you click on a user's "location" google maps will try to find it.
Which is how i have just discovered "Up!Yours Internetmarketing" in Arnhem.

Anyway... google maps thinks "dunya" clearly, obviously, ooobviously refers to "Dunya Döner" in Hanover Linden-Limmer.
Duh.
By pure coincidence this is where Hannah Arendt was born.
I mean the neighborhood, not the exact Döner store, obviously.

 

[H4run]

Anyway... google maps thinks "dunya" clearly, obviously, ooobviously refers to "Dunya Döner" in Hanover Linden-Limmer.
Duh.

You don't know what happened when I click the location of one of the poster here I'm in a total panic, after I click google just directs it to some place that strangely very related to me, then I realize it is not only related to me but also near to me, but in the end I look at it carefully it is actually where I live! And I realize, it is because there is no such town called Glasgnopolis, so no valid target to point to, google map points back at me.

Dunya mean "earth", I want to change it later to something else, also I'm thinking about giving myself a good sig.

 

[Arakhor]

Huh. I didn't know about that feature. If I click on "dunya", it pops up various shopping locations in the UK (and, bizarrely, a couple in the Netherlands).

 

[Kyriakos]

For me google just directs to Thessalonike ^_^ Not sure if others would see the same, though.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

We do. However, it says you are not in the Byzantine Empire. Google needs to go read a history book.

 

[metatron]

For me google just directs to Thessalonike ^_^ Not sure if others would see the same, though.

We do. However, it says you are not in the Byzantine Empire. Google needs to go read a history book.

Well, there's the "Byzantine Bath" on Theotokopoulou.
Right next to Konditorei Ο φούρνος της Αγίου Δημητρίου, apparently.

There's apparently also "Lemon's House".

 

[Arakhor]

The oven of St Demetrios? I'm not sure I want to know.

 

[Kyriakos]

The oven of St Demetrios? I'm not sure I want to know.

Lol.
It refers to the street (which is named after the cathedral ). Apparently it is just a bakery there.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

The oven of St Demetrios? I'm not sure I want to know.

The story of Hansel and Gretel had to come from somewhere...

Or maybe Demetrios just made really good bread. People get made saints for all kinds of reasons. There's a guy in the SCA who was dubbed "St. Geoffrey of the Hot Tub" by a grateful king; seems he had the foresight to bring a portable hot tub to a Crown Tournament, much to the delight of everyone who participated in the lists that day.

 

[Arakhor]

Kings in the SCA can canonise people? Impressive.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Kings in the SCA can canonise people? Impressive.

Hey, if Henry VIII could decide to create his own church...

The SCA is religion-neutral, so there aren't any popes. Since somebody has to do these things, it might as well be the kings (or queens; some women enter the lists, win, and become Queen in their own right). Besides, it's clearly understood that the persona of Geoffrey Whoever-he-was (I never did know the rest of his real SCA name) had been canonized. The person who portrayed St. Geoffrey of the Hot Tub had no claim whatsoever to sainthood in his mundane life.

On a much lesser scale, in my SCA life I'm minor aristocracy, having been granted an Award of Arms and the right to be addressed as "Lady." Of course this has no bearing on my mundane life.

Kings and Queens reign for only 6 months, btw (they spend 6 months after winning the tournament learning the job; they're known as the Crown Prince/Princess, and after that they take over from the outgoing monarchs). Crown Tournaments are held every 6 months. Most decrees such as canonizing someone are upheld by future monarchs as a matter of courtesy, unless the decree results in problem situations or was always intended to be just temporary.

I remember one decree that stated that we weren't allowed to refer to our costumes as costumes; we had to say "garb" - and we weren't allowed to call our cars or trucks by any other word except "wagon." Of course in our local part of the Knowne World, we shrugged, said, "We don't care; we'll do what we always do" and ignored it (same as when the Board of Directors in California decided that weddings could no longer be celebrated since they were deemed to be religious activities; we basically said, "Screw the BoD, we're having weddings anyway").

 

[metatron]

The oven of St Demetrios? I'm not sure I want to know.

But it's a Konditorei. Says google maps.

Lol.
It refers to the street (which is named after the cathedral ). Apparently it is just a bakery there.

No, no, no...

You probably mean:
Ο φούρνος της Αγίου Δημητρίου on Agiou Dimitriou 121
But i meant:
Ο φούρνος της Αγίου Δημητρίου on Theotokopoulou 6

The latter one is right accross the street from the Byzantine Bath, which is where google maps sent me when i clicked on your "location".
(Well it placed me at a high zoom level and recommended both the Byzantine Bath and the Byzantine Museum).

Btw... i get a bit of an impression that Thessaloniki has a lot of bakeries.

 

[Kyriakos]

Well, it isn't exactly impossible that the bakery is named after the larger street nearby, assuming it isn't just a glitch on google map.
Cities tend to have a lot of bakeries.

No surprise it recommended the byz museum or byz other stuff, given my location says "The Byzantine Empire".

 

[Takhisis]

@haroon has listed as a location: Dunya.

Now... i understand what "dunya" means just fine (relatively speaking).
But i apparently had forgotten about this google maps feature.
So, yeah, if you click on a user's "location" google maps will try to find it.
Which is how i have just discovered "Up!Yours Internetmarketing" in Arnhem.

Oi! Quit stalking me unless you want to contribute to my German education! I have an international exam in December y'know!

We do. However, it says you are not in the Byzantine Empire. Google needs to go read a history book.

Indeed. To the very end it was called the Roman Empire.

Well, there's the "Byzantine Bath" on Theotokopoulou.
Right next to Konditorei Ο φούρνος της Αγίου Δημητρίου, apparently.

There's apparently also "Lemon's House".

The oven of St Demetrios? I'm not sure I want to know.

Lol.
It refers to the street (which is named after the cathedral ). Apparently it is just a bakery there.

I'd better explain the theory behind it so that Mr. K. doesn't trap you next time, Mr. Arakhor.

Spoiler :

It should clue you in that it says ‘της’ Αγίου Δημητρίου there and της is the genitive form of the feminine definite article (the masculine is του). If it is

Ο φούρνος της Αγίου Δημητρίου​

then there's an elided ‘οδού’ street in the middle:

της οδού Αγίου Δημητρίου​

-or another grammatically feminine word e.g. πλατεία (square) or εκκλησία (church)-
which still doesn't clear up which of the various streets or on near the street and/or church of St. Demetrios it is.

Kings in the SCA can canonise people? Impressive.

You're not going to think that all the saints venerated by the various Christian Churches have been canonised on merely theological grounds, are you?

 

[Arakhor]

You're not going to think that all the saints venerated by the various Christian Churches have been canonised on merely theological grounds, are you?

I'd like to think so, but the answer is almost certainly, "What a grand and intoxicating innocence! How could you be so naive?"

 

[Takhisis]

My answer to your being predisposed to thinking so certainly is ‘what a grand and intoxicating innocence!’.

But please do not make use of those uncouth colonial neutral ivnerted commas.