Posters from alternative universes

cursuswalker · #1 by **cursuswalker** » Feb 05, 2011 7:03 pm

: NO IRISH POTATO FAMINE; devolution for Ireland now!.jpg (327.69 KiB) Viewed 440 times

: THE CONFEDERACY WINS; BOYCOTT THE CSA!.jpg (247.56 KiB) Viewed 440 times

: THE ENGLISH WIN THE BATTLE OF HASTINGS 1000 years on...; great english people! great england! great scandinavia!.jpg (223.21 KiB) Viewed 440 times

cursuswalker · #2 by **cursuswalker** » Feb 05, 2011 8:20 pm

: THE ARMADA TAKES THE ISLE OF WIGHT; KEEP WIGHT SPANISH!.jpg (191.64 KiB) Viewed 370 times

: NEANDERTHAL MUSEUM POSTER

First public display of fossils of extinct Homo Sapiens, just discovered in Southern Africa.

North African Territories, 20,000 CE; homo sapiens museum.jpg (191.13 KiB) Viewed 419 times

cursuswalker · #3 by **cursuswalker** » Feb 05, 2011 9:16 pm

: NAZI GERMANY DOES NOT INVADE RUSSIA

Resistance poster, 1983; DER FUHRER IST TOT.jpg (235.91 KiB) Viewed 418 times

jparada · #4 by **jparada** » Feb 05, 2011 10:33 pm

cursuswalker wrote:
KEEP WIGHT SPANISH!.jpg

That sentence looks weird for Spanish.

cursuswalker · #5 by **cursuswalker** » Feb 05, 2011 11:34 pm

jparada wrote:
cursuswalker wrote:
KEEP WIGHT SPANISH!.jpg

That sentence looks weird for Spanish.

please advise

cursuswalker · #6 by **cursuswalker** » Feb 05, 2011 11:49 pm

: BRITAN WINS THE AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE

Philadelphia, June 1785; whereas.jpg (643.32 KiB) Viewed 395 times

Animavore · #7 by **Animavore** » Feb 05, 2011 11:53 pm

cursuswalker · #8 by **cursuswalker** » Feb 06, 2011 12:05 am

Animavore wrote:

LOL

cursuswalker · #9 by **cursuswalker** » Feb 06, 2011 12:23 am

: 152.jpg (14.52 KiB) Viewed 390 times

jparada · **#10** by **jparada** » Feb 06, 2011 4:46 am

cursuswalker wrote:
jparada wrote:
cursuswalker wrote:
KEEP WIGHT SPANISH!.jpg

That sentence looks weird for Spanish.

please advise

Well, for a start, "keep" is actually written "mantenga", more exactly "mantengan" if plural is intended. Now, "Vighte" is a weird spelling if what is intended is rendering "Wight" in a Spanish form. I searched for old accounts of the activities of the Spanish Armada and found the spelling "Vize", which is more consistent with the spelling rules of Spanish. Last but not least, the Spanish word for island is feminine, which means any adjective refering to an island will take the feminine form, "española" in this case. So, summing up, the sentence rendered in more correct Spanish would read:

Mantengan a Vize española.

"a" is a preposition roughly with the same meaning as the english "to", but is as well used to link the subject and the object of a sentence if the subject is perceived to have some sort of individual identity, roughly speaking. I don't really know how to explain that bit, it's something you acquire by exposition to the language.

To end, i would remark that an expression like the above would rarely be found in common usage by Spanish speakers, if ever. Most probably, a Hispanophone would use the shorter expressions "Vize es española", or "Vize española", meaning simply, "wight is spanish".

I hope this little exposition has been useful

cursuswalker · **#11** by **cursuswalker** » Feb 06, 2011 9:37 am

jparada wrote:
cursuswalker wrote:
jparada wrote:
That sentence looks weird for Spanish.

please advise

Well, for a start, "keep" is actually written "mantenga", more exactly "mantengan" if plural is intended. Now, "Vighte" is a weird spelling if what is intended is rendering "Wight" in a Spanish form. I searched for old accounts of the activities of the Spanish Armada and found the spelling "Vize", which is more consistent with the spelling rules of Spanish. Last but not least, the Spanish word for island is feminine, which means any adjective refering to an island will take the feminine form, "española" in this case. So, summing up, the sentence rendered in more correct Spanish would read:

Mantengan a Vize española.

"a" is a preposition roughly with the same meaning as the english "to", but is as well used to link the subject and the object of a sentence if the subject is perceived to have some sort of individual identity, roughly speaking. I don't really know how to explain that bit, it's something you acquire by exposition to the language.

To end, i would remark that an expression like the above would rarely be found in common usage by Spanish speakers, if ever. Most probably, a Hispanophone would use the shorter expressions "Vize es española", or "Vize española", meaning simply, "wight is spanish".

I hope this little exposition has been useful

VERY

I shall be changing it today.

lyingcheat · **#12** by **lyingcheat** » May 07, 2011 10:17 am

Here's a couple from an alternate universe...

Tyrannical · **#13** by **Tyrannical** » May 07, 2011 10:38 am

cursuswalker · **#14** by **cursuswalker** » May 08, 2011 4:31 pm

Tyrannical wrote:

A brilliant film

lyingcheat · **#15** by **lyingcheat** » May 14, 2011 1:05 pm

MacIver · **#16** by **MacIver** » May 20, 2011 11:06 pm

Sgt Kelly · **#17** by **Sgt Kelly** » May 25, 2011 9:26 am

Did the Italians fill up the Mediterranean ?

Shrunk · **#18** by **Shrunk** » May 25, 2011 10:20 am

MacIver wrote:

Why did Canada remain unaffected?

cursuswalker · **#19** by **cursuswalker** » May 25, 2011 11:37 am

Because it's.....Canada

MacIver · **#20** by **MacIver** » May 25, 2011 1:10 pm

Sgt Kelly wrote:Did the Italians fill up the Mediterranean ?

The Nazi's did, they closed the Gibraltar straight and drained it to create farmland to feed Europe.

Shrunk wrote:Why did Canada remain unaffected?

I'm not sure. :think:

It's been a while since I read the book.

There are other interesting parallels in the novel. Such as the use of rockets instead of jets in modern aircraft.