Excellent — it’s even gender-neutral, so I can send it to my wife. You can send it to your beloved, no matter who they are!
Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
Excellent — it’s even gender-neutral, so I can send it to my wife. You can send it to your beloved, no matter who they are!
try this mnemonic to recall this phrase when needed:
A toilet brush chases the snake, flying over a pillow, into the quivering bird while the rat and grilled fish watch.
It’s saying things like that to my beloved that is the reason he hasn’t spoken to me for over a year now. Apparently there are different standards when your love is unrequited. Deeply unfair if you ask me.
Great, now we need to figure out which apostles and saints were gay.
@2 Cartomancer
The modern Egyptiological pronunciation would be
/nɛfɛr wi pɛħuːi kiː/
Or for English pronunciation, roughly: “nefer wee pekhooee kee”.
What if it’s a typo and they really said “how beautiful are your bullocks”?
I suppose they have mapped Egyptian hieroglyphs so well that mistakes like that no longer happen.
I had a neighbor as a kid who’s name was Nofret or Nofred. It means beautiful or in his case handsome. They were Egyptian
Will that get a more positive reaction than the line I’ve been using?
Currently, I’m going with, “Truly, yours is a butt that won’t quit!” delivered in a haughty tone with some dramatic gesticulations.
Are you sure it’s gender neutral? Egyptian was a gendered language.
Classic! ;-)
Or maybe protoclassic given the era I guess?
@ 8. ionopachys : It was? Okay did not know that. Thanks.
@8 ionopachys
In this case it is since a more literal translation would be
“What a nice ass”
There are no pronouns or adjectives referring to a person in the sentence.
[esoterica]
In English English — and Australian English, for that matter — an ‘arse’ refers to buttocks and an ‘ass’ refers to… an ass.
Mind you, English English does use ‘ass’ for a, um, incompetent person.
A donkey.
(In Oz, a ‘donk’ is slang for the engine of a car)
Badmoonraisin got it right. Others? Well, for certain dialects, I suppose they did.
[PS]
feralboy12, a ‘butt’ is the stub of a cigarette (or the end of a log) whereas in some places whereas in other places (ahem) it’s a ‘bum’. Not referring to an indigent, either.
(Ah, translations)
[ah, editing errors]
If we didn’t have any cigarettes, we used to “bum” one from someone who did.
Because I am me, I had to go and find a font and type this up. https://mjn.host.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/egyptian/fonts/newgardiner.html and https://mjn.host.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/egyptian/unicode/tablemain.html are really good ways to waste an afternoon.
I think the phrase is:
oar, horned viper, mouth, quail chick, two diagonal strokes, hind quarters of a lion, basket with right handle, two diagonal strokes
Using my handy “Up Pompeii” translator, I think it means something like this:
Oh er, missus, your asp is making me very horny, I must say, can I stroke your little chickadee? I’d like to lie by your hind quarters and handle them right enough and give them a couple of strokes and all.
I have heard of this before. Wasn’t this a god speaking to someone? I forgot which god, the Egyptians had a lot.
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And speaking of gods, I am reading the latest novel in the “Rivers of London ” series.
The author is very inclusive, with every aspect of LBGTQ included among the characters.
Oh Calcutta!
Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_Callipyge