Wait, which line did you have trouble with? The only one I couldn't quite figure out was Hervey's first line, with the German flag and the arrow and the vomiting. (He's disgusted at the thought of Germans fighting Germans? Not sure.) Everything else made sense. I particularly enjoyed the pig with the bow-and-arrow, a genius emoji translation of boar-hunting! :D
Re: Hervey - that was my attempt to translate “Germans are the worst”, a feeling that keeps coming up in his memoirs every time he talks about G2 involving himself in continental politics, and “these two are as bad as each other”., which he says about G2 and FW more than once.
Boar hunting was indeed what I had in mind, though belatedly it occured to me that there’s another pig association possible with. FW - the “Fröschlinge”, which as Felis deduced probably translates into “Frischlinge”, i.e. piglets - he released in the castle to amuse the kids that one time according to Stratemann. (I bet SD was very unamused.) However, context is everything, so I was reasonably sure you’d figure out which FW distracting activity was intended. :)
I didn't quite understand that Seckendorff and Caroline were trying to distract their respective monarchs. Once you mentioned that, then I understood what was going on :)
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Re: Unsent Letters?
Date: 2021-02-10 12:34 am (UTC)Wait, which line did you have trouble with? The only one I couldn't quite figure out was Hervey's first line, with the German flag and the arrow and the vomiting. (He's disgusted at the thought of Germans fighting Germans? Not sure.) Everything else made sense. I particularly enjoyed the pig with the bow-and-arrow, a genius emoji translation of boar-hunting! :D
Re: Unsent Letters?
Date: 2021-02-10 03:42 am (UTC)Boar hunting was indeed what I had in mind, though belatedly it occured to me that there’s another pig association possible with. FW - the “Fröschlinge”, which as Felis deduced probably translates into “Frischlinge”, i.e. piglets - he released in the castle to amuse the kids that one time according to Stratemann. (I bet SD was very unamused.) However, context is everything, so I was reasonably sure you’d figure out which FW distracting activity was intended. :)
Re: Unsent Letters?
Date: 2021-02-10 06:32 am (UTC)