Satisfactory Comics: If Sauron had won...

Thursday, May 15, 2008

It's all on!

Isaac said...: Can you translate the labels in that diagram? Please tell me that "Büntudat" doesn't mean "foot hair."; May 16, 2008 at 4:25 PM
Mike said...: Hmm...I can't tell you that "Büntudat" doesn't mean "foot hair," because I can't tell what it means.

"Finom íz" probably means something like "tasty crunch" ("finom" is tasty, I'm guessing on "íz").

"Keksz" means cookie (or "biscuit," according to the non-Americans at Lonely Planet).

"Engedj neki" I think means something like "Indulge yourself" (literally, it's something more like "You have permission" or "Allow yourself")

That's the best I can do. (And I appreciate that you probably weren't really asking, but you know me...) It is funny how much Hungarian sounds like the Black Speech of Mordor, though.; May 18, 2008 at 9:49 AM
Isaac said...: Hm... Mordor ~ Magyar?

I could imagine that. Isn't there some sort of early-20th-century-European-politics allegory swimming behind the races and clans of Middle Earth, anyway?

As a so-called modernist, I should know more about this than I do.; May 18, 2008 at 1:22 PM