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Question about Sorceress Poses and Props for Genesis 3 and 8 Female(s)— what does it say?

DamselDamsel Posts: 406
edited March 2019 in The Commons

I did this cover, but the art director questions whether the Greek lettering says anything dubious. Does anyone have any idea what it actually says?

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  • Matt_CastleMatt_Castle Posts: 3,246

    It would help if you could link to the original product, with an unobscured image of the text.

    While it's not especially difficult to type Greek into a translator, I really don't know enough about Greek to guess what any half obscured words should be.

  • jardinejardine Posts: 1,223

    what's the magical prop used for this cover image? 

    j

  • DamselDamsel Posts: 406

    The prop is from Sorceress Poses and Props for Genesis 3 and 8 Female(s). 

  • DamselDamsel Posts: 406
    edited March 2019

    Here’s the prop image.

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  • Matt_CastleMatt_Castle Posts: 3,246
    edited March 2019

    Seeing it in full, it's clear it's not proper Greek but is transliterated English.

    Your art director was correct to question it. EDIT: Originally I couldn't work out some of it, but reading again, I think in full it's supposed to be (from 12 o'clock, reading clockwise): "The Boy who lived, Whatever. And why Ron, she is too hot for him. Harry Potter is a lame poser. My magic is much cooler" (Some of this isn't even that hard to read even if you don't really know Greek letters).

    ... so yeah, one could argue that it's "dubious".

     

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  • DamselDamsel Posts: 406

    Well, crap. Ok, I’ll blur the hell out of it.

    AK

  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,874

    Well it looks like they used the Greek alphabet as substitutes for Roman letters in a 1 to 1 fashion according to which Greek letter looks most like which Roman letter, as one of the words looks to be intentionally the word The and another looks to intentionally by why. The rest I'm not is such a mood to try and decipher. 

  • DamselDamsel Posts: 406

     I get that it's a joke. But I had to fix it by running it through a radial blur. When my art director cautioned me about it, I thought, "Hey, no Daz PA would intentionally make a customer look stupid."

    AK

  • DamselDamsel Posts: 406

    Here's the edited version.

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  • James_HJames_H Posts: 1,114
    edited March 2019

    Ok

    I can't read it all but from the left:

    lame poser  .. magic is m.. ..er the bo.. ..who liwed (boy who lived?) whatever and why

    (and I then lost interest)

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  • Matt_CastleMatt_Castle Posts: 3,246
    Damsel said:

     I get that it's a joke. But I had to fix it by running it through a radial blur. When my art director cautioned me about it, I thought, "Hey, no Daz PA would intentionally make a customer look stupid."

    I have on occasions used things like Latin translations of Stairway to Heaven lyrics as Lorem Ipsum or magical incantations, because that's the kind of thing that if someone works it out, it's a neat "Easter Egg" for them, but I would only do that having personally "signed off" on the fact I was happy for someone to work it out. A petty huff about Harry Potter isn't really something that people should be unwittingly putting into commercial renders.

    I would argue there's grounds for a complaint to customer service there, as it's already resulted in wasted time and could have caused a lot of embarrassment and/or additional expense to sort out had it gone any further.

     

  • James_HJames_H Posts: 1,114
    jash147 said:

    Ok

    I can't read it all but from the left:

    lame poser  .. magic is m.. ..er the bo.. ..who liwed (boy who lived?) whatever and why

    (and I then lost interest)

    OK, now seen the prop thingy

    Starting at 10 o'clock

    My magic is much cooler; the boy who lived whatever; and why ron she is too hot for him; harry potter is a lame poser

  • SimonJMSimonJM Posts: 6,100

    I tried using GIMP to 'redo' the text, but my ability to get GIMP to understand I am trying ti place text along a path I created seems to be nil crying

  • miladyderyni_173d399f47miladyderyni_173d399f47 Posts: 3,090

    I like the final version better, myself.

     

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