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[fan_elune]

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What Type of Villain are You?

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Moriarti, now I can't help picture him like in Young Sherlock Holmes, a fairly entertaining movie with a delightful villain. Oh yes. (Makes me think, yesterday I had a look at a few Jude Law galleries - the word scrumptious came to mind (and I never use that word). I still can't believe how downright ugly he was in Road to Perdition. Guy's a v. good actor.)

Anyway. Wanted to read more OLS, but I put the Mononoke-Hime soundtrack on and it's tickling the muses for my fairy-related original story. Have just spent some time looking for Icelandic names, since the list I'd made is on Kaylee. Hopefully I'll get some of the first scene down tonight (sorry, heikki_cheren, that does mean I'm not writing those K'Immies just yet - I don't want to ignore those muses for fear they ignore me later on). Just those names are enough to tickle my fancy... Lilja, Valdís, Brynjólfur, Hrafn, and so many others.

Hmm, I wonder whether I have what it takes to type those letters the Icelandic use for the two "th" sounds.

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[heikki-cheren.livejournal.com]

> I put the Mononoke-Hime soundtrack on

Ah, since you just reminded me of it. Joe Hisaishi, who composed that soundtrack, and a bunch of Miyazaki and Kitano soundtracks, was asked to make a whole new soundtrack for a 1926 Buster Keaton movie, which had previously no sound. The DVD is being released, and I think it's gonna aire in some theatre too.

I might go see it. Just for Joe Hisaishi (and, well, ok, never saw a Buster Keaton movie, it'll be the opportunity to try one). Nah, I'm not obsessed with the guy. Ok, just a bit.

[fan-elune.livejournal.com]

With good reason.

Ah, should do myself a Mononoke icon one of these days. I already know what picture I want, with what text. Ah, I love that film. I ought to watch it again before I leave, if I have time.

[heikki-cheren.livejournal.com]

> Hmm, I wonder whether I have what it takes to type
> those letters the Icelandic use for the two "th" sounds.

Yup, you do. You have fingers. And me. ;-P
And said "me" is giving you that url http://www.bris.ac.uk/help/html/htmlcard.html and telling you to search the page for "thorn".
The second column hold the html codes for eth (Ð / ð)and thorn (Þ / þ), the two letters you're looking for.

That will do for html use. If you need it in Word or something, there's that http://www.isholf.is/halfdanh/alphabet.htm, but, huh, I couldn't test it, seems I can't do ASCII code on my laptop keyboard. You can use copy/paste, though... ;-)

[fan-elune.livejournal.com]

Sweet, thanks a lot. That just widened the scope of names I can use... *checks her list* No, actually it already enables to use names I had picked. Definitely big thanks.

[heikki-cheren.livejournal.com]

You're welcome.

But from now on, don't ask anymore language/alphabet related questions when I'm on a slow connection, it's cruel, I couldn't res-... Hmmm, ok, never mind, that was lots of fun, you can do so whenever you want. :-P
Arh, it's hard to be a language junkie sometimes... ;-)

[fan-elune.livejournal.com]

Ah, I feel your pain. ;)

And I'm really not as much of a junkie as you are. One of the characters I wanted to refer to as "Old Hallbjörn," with the "Old" in Icelandic, so I looked up old, but then I realised there were inflections. And I just decided to keep old in English. Inflections are such. A. Pain. I don't see why all those languages kept them when clearly, English has been doing just fine without them!

Yes, I'm lazy.

[heikki-cheren.livejournal.com]

Hmm, inflexions? (yeah, languages junkie, but just en amateur, I'm a scientist :-P) Are they stuff that looks like accents?

There's a solution to your problem. You can both be lazy and have the correct "Old". The Replace All function is a lovely feature. ;-)
Personnally, I would prefer the Old the Icelandic way, just for the visual aspect, but well, your story, your choice.

[fan-elune.livejournal.com]

Inflections are... "déclinaisons"? You know, when a word changes function, it changes the ending of the word?

So, no the replace all feature does very much not work. I'd need to pay attention, each time, to what the "Old Hallbjörn" is in the sentence, and then figure out (and hopefully not completely screw *that* up, which isn't sure, 'cause grammar sites aren't always clear and stuff) what inflection I should put on the adjective.

Again, I'm lazy.

[heikki-cheren.livejournal.com]

Ah. Déclinaisons.... (well, I did some Greek for 6 years, so yeah, I'm quite familiar with the notion ;-)).

My turn to feel your pain. And I now approve the laziness.

[fan-elune.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I bear them no small hate. Blargh.