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HEY GAL posted:Looks like it. OM LAKSHMI THRAKODAIAT ("bright and beautiful") is the bit above; the stuff in the box says "hare Krishna hare." This seems kind of New-Agy? The placard is literally the worst attempted transliteration (except it's transliterated into Sanskrit script  ) of "aum" I've ever seen.Like, I had to peer at it for a while until I figured out that it was them committing word crimes, not your roommate's translation being weird.
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Nov 18, 2014 02:55
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I don't know why they included the first letter, even in an "obviously this works like English" pre-Wikipedia Wikipedia transliteration. Taken literally, it comes out as something like "mah-oh-oom." Assuming the bottom-squiggles on the second and third letter aren't intended to be vowels. "Ah-oh-oo-m", in other words if we ignore the weird first letter (or assume they completely screwed up engraving "a"; this is probably the case, because a confused "a" makes way more sense than a gratuitous "m" that you then screw up slightly), which is how you might arrive at "aum" if you didn't really get Sanskrit vowels and/or the fact that it has its own letter.
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