I'm carving this into the pyramids where it doesn't belong, to throw archeologists for a loop
So who's going to post the unicode characters so we can copy paste it?
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How do you write "YMCA" in hieroglyphics?
Hieroglyphics, let me be specific: I wanna be down in your South Seas
But I got this notion that the motion of your ocean means "Small Craft Advisory"
So if I capsize on your thighs high tide, B-5, you sunk my battleship
Please turn me on, I'm Mister Coffee with an automatic drip
So show me yours, I'll show you mine, "Tool Time," you'll Lovett just like Lyle
And then we'll do it doggy style so we can both watch "X-Files"
I see at least 5 hieroglyphs and now that I know what they mean I'd like to have them parsed in detail, thankyouverymuch.
I know literally nothing about hieroglyphs, but I found all the individual symbols (I think):
𓄤 𓆑𓂋𓅱𓏭𓄖𓎡𓏭
Cool! Putting these in a search engine one by one, I get
- The first three are used to describe “beautiful,” “perfect,” or “good:” 𓄤𓆑𓂋 1
- 𓅱 = quail chick, used also for the plural word ending (I'm going with this, because the other meaning is "Field, district, region")
- 𓏭 = plural, majority, collective concept (e.g. meat, jwf), duality. Can be used as a replacement for signs perceived to be dangerous to actually write. (I can't really make sense of this one, maybe it's just some sort of stress)
- 𓄖 = Hindquarters of leopard or lion <= aha!
- 𓎡 this apparently only has a phonetic value of 'k'???
I learned a little about hieroglyphics today. Just enough to realize they are both complex & well researched.
Late response, but Wiktionary puts cat's ass and plural quails together to mean buttocks (I wish I'd found this before manually looking up each symbol!):
🥖🐍🦜🐌🛶
Which one means butt? The bird, the ladle, or the squash on an 80° angle?
Could be none of them on its own. Egyptian hieroglyphs had a meaning as a word but could also be used as letters.
They often also had a meaning as a part of a word or as a syllable!
nonsense script isn't used that way
Lol
𓃘 or 𓀗 or 𓀐 are all good substitutes until we can find out.
Could be a fun tattoo.
Except it probably really says "mutton soup with cabbage"
The old fashioned English makes it sound way more formal than it probably was
I don't know Egyptian, but I'm guessing that phrasing is somehow closer to the original? "Thy" is sometimes used in translations to emphasise that the original text used informal 2nd person pronouns
Hieroglyphics were always formal language I thought
Can anyone confirm this? And maybe explain it in simple terms?
Sounds very Monty Python.