{"id":24741,"date":"2019-07-02T07:55:52","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T12:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=24741"},"modified":"2019-07-02T08:23:18","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T13:23:18","slug":"be-careful-that-your-internet-translation-does-not-start-a-reign-of-unholy-terror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/02\/be-careful-that-your-internet-translation-does-not-start-a-reign-of-unholy-terror\/","title":{"rendered":"Be Careful That Your Internet Translation Does Not Start A Reign of Unholy Terror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook is very cautious.  It thinks this is German:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/cthulhuuntranslated.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Translated to English by Facebook, this text says:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/cthulhutranslated.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>That, as you know, gentle reader who probably also delves into eldritch tomes by the mad Arab, is not the real translation, which is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In his house at R&#8217;lyeh, dread Cthulhu waits dreaming.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I was finta say that Facebook is being overly cautious here in hiding the meaning of unholy phrases, and that Big Tech is a conspiracy to keep this knowledge from the masses, and that no dictionary sites offer pronunciations for these words <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/09\/in-my-defense-i-pronounced-it-correctly\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">to help those who&#8217;ve only read them<\/a>, but&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sOA5Chz3iU4\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>never mind.<\/p>\n<p>Every time you watch that video, you strengthen the cult magic that seeks to raise the Great Old One.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook is very cautious. It thinks this is German: Translated to English by Facebook, this text says: That, as you know, gentle reader who probably also delves into eldritch tomes by the mad Arab, is not the real translation, which is: In his house at R&#8217;lyeh, dread Cthulhu waits dreaming. I was finta say that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24741"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24747,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24741\/revisions\/24747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}