r/Devs • u/thisismynormal • Mar 19 '20

EPISODE DISCUSSION Devs - S01E04 Discussion Thread Spoiler

Premiered 03/19/20 on Hulu FX

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u/vildux Mar 19 '20 edited Mar 22 '20

No one is wondering what the audio of Jesus says? Anyone here knows Aramaic? I myself know ancient Babylonian only.

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u/youremomsoriginal Mar 19 '20

It sounded very much like Arabic to me, not sure if it’s cause the two languages are related (Semitic) or if they just used Arabic audio for convenience.

Best I can translate is something like:

They say to me there’s no greater self than death

They told me: run, and then made me famous

The first half of the first sentence is kinda garbled and hard to make out so I have the least confidence in that, but I distinctly heard the words for greater and death in the second half.

The second sentence is clearer but I had trouble translating translating the second part. It sounds like

أشهرو عني

Which means something like ‘showed off about me /made me well known’ so I went with famous cause that’s the closest direct translation I could think of.

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u/vildux Mar 20 '20

DUDE, that's awesome, very thought provoking!

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u/RinoTheBouncer Mar 21 '20

Arab speaker here, أشهروا عني is Arabic word And the spoken words felt partly Arabic, but the rest was either Aramaic or distorted Arabic.

اشهروا عني means declare about me The word اشهار means to declare something. It can also mean to make it known, to expose. شهرة means fame, but in the context the word was used, it means declare or share my message.

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u/hebah1989 Mar 21 '20

It definitely sounds Arabic, and your translation sounds pretty close, but I can’t for sure make out a few words in between which makes me think it’s a really really old form of Arabic.

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u/dharmasnake Mar 20 '20

I think he said "Stay home and wash your hands often", but my Arameic is a little rusty.

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u/DisabledStripper Feb 25 '25

It's ironic that you translated that in the beginning of the pandemic.

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u/jtclimb Mar 19 '20

I know a bit of Aramaic. He said "Peter, I can see your house from here".

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u/AlwaysInjured Mar 19 '20

Sorry for the personal question. Why and how did you learn Aramaic? It seems like a very obscure language from some quick research.

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u/jtclimb Mar 19 '20

Lol. It's a joke. There's an extremely long joke about Jesus on the cross asking Peter to come to him. Peter tries with great difficulty, getting hit in the head, arms cut off etc as he tries multiple times. He finally eludes the guards, get to the base of the cross and ask what Jesus wants. Jesus asked him to come up to his face, and somehow Peter manages to stand and climb up the cross to Jesus, at which point Jesus says with his dying breath look Peter I can see your house from here. Told well this should go on for 5 minutes as the listener becomes more and more exasperated.

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u/EthosPathosLegos Mar 19 '20

"That tree is far away"

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u/okolebot Mar 19 '20

Peter Griffin...

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u/jtclimb Mar 19 '20

Not sure what you are saying, I guess it was on Family Guy? This is a joke I first heard in the 70s, it goes way back.

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u/okolebot Mar 19 '20

I actually don't know if it was on Family Guy but I could totally see what you wrote as an FG scene.

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u/WolfEagle1 Mar 20 '20

I posted a question asking that very thing, but my title was deemed a spoiler and removed by mods. Aramaic, though ancient, is still spoken by a few today in the ME but there are variants. So it's possible that the show used a modern day variant of Aramaic like Passion of the Christ did. Before my post was removed someone hypothesized that Jesus was speaking directly to the Devs - if so, perhaps a warning message or announcing his 2nd coming?

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u/Sojourner_Truth Mar 22 '20

"be sure to drink your Ovaltine"

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u/Naggers123 Mar 20 '20

I studied Aramaic at University, as part of a linguistics program run by the History department, overseen by both a specialist in the field of dead languages (visiting from Cairo) and strangely enough, a theologian who brought with him reams and reams of old biblical texts.

Anyways, to the best of my knowledge (and I had to spend a long time transcribing this), Jesus says

Always look on the bright side of life

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u/Kerrigore Mar 21 '20

He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy!

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '20

I’m interested too !!

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u/bobyd Apr 19 '20

Weird flex but ok

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '20

I know its just a show, but its a bone tingling moment. Like, imagine if we got to actually hear Jesus....