Plans for Minna's Birthday!

[Aierdome]

Exactly!

Brilliant! 

[OrigamiOwl]

Sc0ut: Well played sir! She also mentioned being very fond of a marshland nature reserve near where she lives, and riding bicycles. Minna also talked about a hiking trip she did last summer with her mother and aunt, the trip where she put up photos on her blog, and her art shows how much she loves nature, and how observant she is of its fine detail. Not sure why, but she does give the impression of liking poetry and music. And of course folklore!

I think she might also like dragons maybe? I think remember there being a lot of dragons in her older art...? Also anthropomorphic animals ;3

[Gwenno]

Aaaaaand, I think it's time to bring this thread back to life! Minna's birthday is January 9th. I don't think I'll be able to coordinate this one like the secret santa or advent calendar (so if anyone feels like volunteering please say so), but we may as well get this thing (t)rolling!

*Insert suggestions here*

[Buteo]

So - lowkey celebration this year, just a few gazillion comments on Monday's page, tweets and Facebook posts wishing Minna a Happy Birthday...?

Next year, when we all haven't just had to live through 2016, maybe something more elaborate, eh?

[Róisín]

Sounds like a great idea. And let us all hope that 2017 is a better year all around!

[thegreyarea]

For Minna's 30th birthday (2020-01-09) Minnions from all over the world posted, on the comments section for page 213 (Adventure 2) their wishes of Happy Aniversary in 45 languages*. Here is a table with those wishes (ordered by language)

I tried to include everybody, but it's a lot and I may missed someone's reply... If that happened contact me and I'll do my best to fix it :-)

(It's a long table, so the image is too small. You can click here to see it full-size https://postimg.cc/RW9CQnyN)



Note: Updated to v1.1c to include 6 Minnions and 2 languages (Estonian and Hokkien), raising the number to 45! :-)

* that includes 39 human languages, 5 fictional ones and Binary. The last 2 on the table are just for fun and weren't counted.

[Windfighter]

oh no I missed it! I was gonna write the swedish birthday-song like we've done other years!

Anyway I see someone else stepped in and wrote n swedish, nice!

[Jitter]

Great, thank you thegreyarea!

Hopefully someone on Twitter could tweet this to Minna, or let her know on the stream tonight!

[wavewright62]

Could I please add the Estonian Häid sünnipäeva! ?

[thegreyarea]

Updated the list (in the original post) to add wavewright62 (with Estonian), Windfighter (Swedish), Galaxyfox and Bobert (English), and Temteno (Finnish) :-)

Windy, I've never seen the song. Could you post it here, or in the comments, anyway?

[Vulpes]

This was lots of fun, thanks for organizing it, thegreyarea. And I can't believe I forgot this version of Happy Birthday:

HIPY PAPY BTHETHDTH THUTHDA BTHUTHDY

As written by Owl (rather appropriately) in Winnie the Pooh.

[thegreyarea]

Thanks, Vulpes! It was a pleasure.

You won't be mad at me if I don't include that last one, right? I've just made another update and have (another) important thing to do... Can we save that for next year?

[Windfighter]

It's pretty repetive but here you go (with translations because I'm nice like that):

Ja, må hon leva! Ja, må hon leva! (Yes, let her live! Yes, let her live!)
Ja, må hon leva uti hundrade år! (yes, let her live for 100 years)
Javisst ska hon leva! (Of course she shall live)
Javisst ska hon leva! (Of course she shall live)
Javisst ska hon leva uti hundrade år! (Of course she shall live for 100 years)

Och när hon har levat (And when she has lived)
Och när hon har levat (And when she has lived)
Och när hon har levat uti hundrade år! (And when she has lived for 100 years)
Ja, då ska hon skjutas (Yes, then she'll be shot (this is a pun in swedish I can't translate correctly))
Ja, då ska hon skjutas (Yes, then she'll be shot)
Ja, då ska hon skjutas på en skottkärra fram! (Yes, then she'll be pushed on a wheelbarrow)

Och när hon har skjutits (And when she's been shot)
Och när hon har skjutits (And when she's been shot)
Och när hon har skjutits på en skottkärra fram (And when she's been pushed on a wheelbarrow)
Ja, då ska hon hängas (Yes, then she'll be hanged)
Ja, då ska hon hängas (Yes, then she'll be hanged)
Ja, då ska hon hängas på en häst bakåfram! (Yes then she'll be hanged backwards on a horse)

Och när hon har hängits (And when she's been hanged)
Och när hon har hängits (And when she's been hanged)
Och när hon har hängits på en häst bakåfram (And when she's been hanged backwards on a horse)
Ja, då ska hon dränka (Yes, then she'll be drowned)
Ja, då ska hon dränkas (Yes, then she'll be drowned)
Ja, då ska hon dränkas i en flaska champagne! (Yes, then she'll be drown in a bottle champagne)

And one last verse that I've never heard but apparently is quite popular:
Och när hon har drunknat (And when she's been drowned)
Och när hon har drunknat (And when she's been drowned)
Och när hon har drunknat i en flaska champagne! (And when she's been drowned in a bottle champagne)
Ja, då ska hon firas (Yes, then she'll be celebrated)
Ja, då ska hon firas (Yes, then she'll be celebrated)
Ja, då ska hon firas med jättelång låt! (Yes, then she'll be celebrated with a really long song)


...I honestly don't get the horse-thing but eh, is a great song! The text is a little different and it lacks most of the verses, but for the melody may I offer this handy youtube-link? (most of the youtube videos only sing the first verse because they are COWARDS)

[thegreyarea]

Thanks! Very interesting, and the translations are really nice! :-)

And I can understand their cowardice... :-)

That's the song that you sing in Sweden on children's birthday? So that's what Minna heard when she was a young girl?

[Mebediel]

Ah, my reply must have gotten marked as spam Disqus, but it looks like SytheOrSycle got the Mandarin covered, so that should be fine