FORKNI-L
Digest - 4 Feb 2010 to 5 Feb 2010 (#2010-27)
Fri, 5 Feb 2010
There are 5 messages totalling 159 lines in this issue.
Topics of the day:
1. "Feeding the Beast" (3)
2. Sims skins? (2)
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Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 16:31:52 -0700
From: Walt Doherty <wdoherty5@c.......>
Subject: Re: "Feeding the Beast"
> --- On Tue, 2/2/10, BrandyKitt@a....... <BrandyKitt@a.......> wrote:
>
>> In the vision Nick has of LaCroix,
>> Nick is surrounded by two
>> lists. Are they in Arabic, and what do they say?
>
> I always saw it as an abstract form of script. I assumed they were to
> intimate a listing of the 12 Steps. But just as the show didn't call the
> group by an official 12 step group name, they couldn't use the actual
> twelve steps.
>
> Laurie of the Isles
In looking at the writing on the lists, it's certainly set up
to immitate the posters that are at the actual meeting site.
The script looks to be Arabic (possibly Farsi as someone
said); it's not the traditional Devanagari script usually used
for Sanscrit. (Devanagari letters have a straight line across
the top for almost all of the letters so they are usually easy
to distinguish.) The writing also appears to be centered so
that it's impossible to tell it's to be read left to right or
right to left. Arabic would be read right to left.
But why would anyone translate 12 steps into Sanscrit?
Although, for all that, why would they translate them
into Arabic? Still, if they couldn't use the actual 12 steps,
perhaps someone on the set in the art department who
knew one of the Indian or Arabic languages just wrote
it out to look good. For all we know, unless someone
has translated it, it could be the Ten Commandments,
although for those in an unholy vampire state, this
would seem unlikely. :-)
Walt Doherty
wdoherty5@c.......
Phoenix, AZ
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Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 19:36:06 -0500
From: gaelinwade@a.......
Subject: Re: "Feeding the Beast"
Arabic-speaking Alcoholics. The Book has been translated into Arabic and
there are meetings held throughout the Middle East.
Why Sanskrit? It's still an official language in India. :-)
Gaelin
-----Original Message-----
From: Walt Doherty <wdoherty5@c.......>
But why would anyone translate 12 steps into Sanscrit? Although, for all
that, why would they translate them into Arabic?
wdoherty5@c.......
Phoenix, AZ
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Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 18:22:18 -0700
From: Walt Doherty <wdoherty5@c.......>
Subject: Re: "Feeding the Beast"
Oh, yes, I understand. I didn't mean to denegrate anyone
speaking Arabic, but rather in this situation of an American-
Canadian TV show, why would someone translate the steps
into Arabic. It seems that that would be a lot of work to go
threw for something that few people would notice.
Maybe someone had a bunch of 12 step programs
available in several different languages and this one just
looked good.
And yes, Sanscrit is an official language of India, and there
is a movement to bring it back to be a "living" tongue much
like was done with Hebrew. It has a very small population
base though. Plus, it has been written with just about
every script available in India, so that the writing in the
background of the scene could, indeed, be Sanscrit.
W
----- Original Message -----
> Arabic-speaking Alcoholics. The Book has been translated into Arabic and
> there are meetings held throughout the Middle East.
>
>
>
> Why Sanskrit? It's still an official language in India. :-)
>
> Gaelin
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Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 22:33:16 -0800
From: Megan Hull <mistrydder@y.......>
Subject: Sims skins?
Hi! (Yes, I'm still alive, if anyone remembers me, just generally busy.)
I was dinking around with my new copy of Sims3 it occurred to me to wonder
if anyone had created FK skins, I know there were skins for Sims2 floating
around. Honestly, I'd do it myself, but I'm no designer.
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 -Megan (crossing her fingers she doesn't
get hit with funny symbols in this missive)
"Eternal nights too short,
How quickly melt away,
With all the love we shared once,
Forever in a Day."
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Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 22:37:55 -0800
From: Megan Hull <mistrydder@y.......>
Subject: Re: Sims skins?
D'OH!
--- On Thu, 2/4/10, Megan Hull <mistrydder@y.......> wrote:
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=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 -Megan (crossing her fingers she doesn't
get hit with funny symbols in this missive)
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