Slithy toves and sich like critters
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Sat Sep 25 17:46:51 EDT 1999
At 4:21 PM -0400 9/25/99, Jay Stigdon wrote:
>
>
>"Carl W. Conrad" wrote:
>
>>Perhaps it might be more "profitable" to get a good translation of
>>"Jabberwocky" into Koine Greek--or at least more fun, but we have to get
>>our fun where we can and we have to follow our noses when it comes to
>>research interests.
>>
>>
> FABULOUS idea!!! ....but how do we translate "slithy toves" into
>Koine?
> Or "mimsy", for that matter...?
You are welcome to consult the archives; this was Jonathan's idea for a
lazy Saturday afternoon's cooperative enterprise in December of 1996. To be
precise it was Saturday, December 7, 1996, and there were a couple
follow-ups on the next day. My own version began as follows:
HN BRILLIG, hAI D' APOSTROFAI
GURWSAI OUABON HSTRAPTON:
hHSUXASAN MEN BORGOBOI,
MWMREIS D' EXESTHSAN.
I think one of the scholiasts suggested that "slithy toves" bore some
remote resemblance to apostrophes; as for "mimsy," some hold that this is a
variant for "mumsy" as in "mumsy's the wordsy," For that reason, it
appeared that "be mimsy" --or at least its putative equivalent, "be mumsy",
might reasonably be conveyed by hHSUCAZW.
Carl W. Conrad
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