Can anyone else read & write in ancient dead languages? I know about as much latin as a catholic priest...

Oh. Honestly, I used my 5inch phone screen and only googled runic alphabet to choose a pic for this thread, I didnt even expand the picture to read it whatsoever.

I dont correspond the runes to English, I read the ancient dictionary when I was a baby, it didnt have pronunciation so I came up with sounds from what I overheard on the TV in the other room. I used to exclusively think in that language.

Which language?

Elder runic. If i were to speak the sounds I assigned to the runes it would sound totally retarded, its random bullshit from shit on TV in 1995.

You don't know shit. Having a dictionary around does not mean you know the language at all.
Can you even speak ANY 2nd language?
And I mean for real, not just knowing a few words.
Go ahead, prove me wrong by answering in any language other than English. And be aware that Google Translate is easy to spot.

Btw, I'm not very good at languages, but I grew up in a region with 2 native languages, and studied English and French as third languages at school, just like everyone else. So don't be too proud if you just learned a few Spanish words with Dora.

Ok, you have a lot of useless knowledge

Congratulations

Speak? No, maybe a thousand phrases and words in dead latin but you said that doesnt count.

I could speak the sounds I came up with for runic, but it would be impossible for anyone else to understand. If I had my computer keyboard which qwerty was replaced with runes id be able to type the response in ancient norse, but the keyboard is locked in my gun safe at my uncles house.

How did you learn grammar from a dictionary?

Also, Latin is not dead. It has continuously survived as a spoken language as monastic Latin. Classical Latin has also always been known and documented and a revival of speaking classical Latin has occurred throughout the 20th century.

He didn't. He just replaces one English word with one Norse word, or whatever. So...he has no idea of that lang.

I didnt know that about latin. The big old book I read four thousand and eight hundred pages of a word in Runic followed by an explaination in both English and runic.

Reading it, along with lots of PDFs of old books like stories of King Arthur's round table.

Ok, let's imagine you get a Spanish dictionary and memorise it completely and perfectly.
Do you think you'd know Spanish? No, not really. You wouldn't understand the grammar or any expression.
And Spanish and English are somewhat closely related, which makes things easier.

Now do the same with a Japanese dictionary. Would you know Japanese? Not even at the basic level.
Japanese is much more different from English, and you wouldn't know even the most basic syntax and grammar.

Now, back to your dictionary. Even if you had eidetic memory and could recall every single word, you wouldn't know anything about the language, only a collection of words you can't put together in a sentence.
You'd end up with something like:
> I speak English very good, because to me has learned much of his words.
(I wrote that in other language and replaced every word with the English equivalent. The result isn't really English.)

Elder Runic is not a language you idiot. Fuþark is an alphabet. This is like saying "Oh, I speak Abcde."

This is peak Dunning-Kruger, kids. Some idiot has looked through a book and now thinks he knows a dead language.

The book had 4,800 pages... This book, about the Norse runes, is longer than the Lord of the rings trilogy, five times over.

I demand to know the name of this ruinously large tome.

pics or you don't have such a thing

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OP is a faggot.

There isnt a letter to letter translation, runes are closer to a word than a letter.
Your imaginary keyboard doesnt make any sense

I can confidently say, this supposed dictionary does not exist. For one, nobody prints a 4,800 page book, unless it's a novelty. I don't think op realizes how huge something like that would be. For comparison, The Merrimack-Webster is ~800 pages. If such a dictionary did exist, im pretty sure I would recognjse it.

I don't believe a single word from OP either, but if I were to believe him, he probably meant an Encyclopedia.
I have a very old one (in my language) which contains about 20 tomes, and its probably close to that length, so it doesn't sound too outrageous.

No, that's not really true. The Futhark was a proper alphabet, and while you might assign some special meaning to an individual rune (Týr, for example being the name for the epynomous god of sacrifice), most are used as components to make up a word in a manner similar to our modern languages.

Norse isn't moonspeak you fucking mong.
While the runes have meanings om their own they where used as phonetic (I think is the word) letters as well.
R rune is reido/raido meaning to travel/ride. But it is also the sound reh rah roh etc. Which is why runestones are relatively easy to read of you know some norse and know which futhark the stone uses.

>I dont think anyone on Earth knows how to
You are a fucking retard. At best you have 1800s fanfic

I understand, and might be willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, except given that I do have some working experience of the subject matter, and cannot recall any such multi-volume encyclopedia that matches OPs description.

>imagine getting so angry you have to reply twice

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