Haltangabben

[cccpxepoj]

According to the HotGB, Haltengabben( roughly translated as stand and deliver ????) is the name of the high priestess of Éla in Grabentod.
If i remember the "Deutch" right halt means stop and gabben= to get.
Can wee do something about this name, i feel like idiot every time i need to pronounce it ???

[kgauck]

She is known only as Haltangabben, presumably to people outside her inner circle, people outside the guild, something like that. Give her a proper Brecht name and then make it clear on her page that she is known as Haltangabben.

There are several guilders who keep their true identities secret and only go by some obviously invented identity. A priestess of thieves fits right in.

[Green Knight]

It's HaltEngabben

[AndrewTall]

Like 'robin hood' translates as 'robbing hoodlum'?

I'd see her name as either a title or a nickname used to conceal her true identity. Somehow I can't see a mother calling her kid halterngraben - although given some of the names bestowed by the victorians it isn't so bad...

[kgauck]

Sorry, I cut and pasted from the thread name.

[cccpxepoj]

It's HaltEngabben

Lapsus Calami, but i corrected myself later in the text.

[AndrewTall]

Lapsus Calami, but i corrected myself later in the text.

Drop the squid?

Hmm, I always think of it as haltengrabben - clearly being too fond of pidgin foreign.

[Green Knight]

Drop the squid?

Hmm, I always think of it as haltengrabben - clearly being too fond of pidgin foreign.

Me too! Stop 'n steal :p

[Thelandrin]

Lapsus Calami, but i corrected myself later in the text.

Calamus or calami is a reed, stalk, pen or pipe. I believe that you're after calamitosus, which means disastrous, ruined or blighted.

[AndrewTall]

Me too! Stop 'n steal :p

Instead of 'stop and chat' which may be accurate but lacks the underlying threat.

[cccpxepoj]

Calamus or calami is a reed, stalk, pen or pipe. I believe that you're after calamitosus, which means disastrous, ruined or blighted.

It's a pen, lapsus calami means "error of a pen" ( usual writing tool in roman days)

[Thelandrin]

Ah! I see. You meant the Latin equivalent of a typo, whereas I thought you meant a different version of mea culpa ("my mistake"). Mea culpa, indeed! :)