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Geek Culture / The trouble with Klingons...

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MrTAToad
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Posted: 26th Jun 2003 14:32
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Probably wise to start breaking out the English to Klingon phrase books...
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OMG! ... lol that's insane

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Joeyjoejoe Shabadoo
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Eddie Gordo
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Posted: 26th Jun 2003 16:31
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mmm...gagh...serpents served live

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ok maybe i've seen to much star trek for my own good

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Ian T
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'Moreover, we've had a growing number of cases involving mental health patients where Klingon is the only language they would speak.'

LOL

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Kanzure
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I heard they were translating Gilgan's Island and Seasme Street into Klingon once =D


I almost searched the net for the Klingon dictionary, but I decided no...i'm not that desperate ^^!

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Shadow Robert
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lol... i can barely cope with the amount of REAL language i've had to learn - spanish still isn't exactly my strong point.
it is really insane, if people are gonna speak a fake language in an emergency room then they should be left to bleed to death - (probably not a very hipocratic view though )

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Kanzure
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Fake or not, I want them to release NERD! Not the 1337 that all those AOL n00bs use, but actual nerd talk.

*thinking* Finally! I can communicate with my friends!

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Mattman
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wow, scary

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MrTAToad
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Shame Klingons dont speak Esperanto really - then you would have a good reason to learn a new language.

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Ian T
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Posted: 26th Jun 2003 18:14
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At least it's not l33t that's taking over

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Kanzure
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Actually..it is...

Notice how theres TONS of AOL n00bs more and more often. Its scary, and all of them talk l33t. Its very freaky, then they think they are better then you, and then you get to screw there puters YAY!

eh..I got carried away

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Shadow Robert
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Morph the name is LEET... there is no call to use thier name for that dumbass crap - although a fake language like Klingon taking is a bit disturbing, atleast it is an entire language not some stupid nerd crap that people think is cool but really they're just being idiots.



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Ian T
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That's what he said. And it's l33t because it's l33t in l33t. *yawn*

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bitJericho
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lol...i hear klingon is a very interesting language...wouldn't waste the time to learn it myself tho...

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LEET is not a language its a bunch of moronic losers replacing E with 3 and such, its retarded, i'de rather learn klingon than type a paragraph of LEET.

and if a LEET user calls himself a hacker, as i notice more often, then he doesn't know how to say

Quote: "i was disapointed that a "feature" i used was fixed by a patch"


or

Quote: "i patched some binary code the other day...while it was running...on another computer...somwhere else"


damnit LEET people piss me off its so stupid

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Ian T
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I know.

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My friend has a Klingon/Engilsh dictionary, he's a hard core Trecker.

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Good for him!

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there should be a job as a part-time Matrix programmer

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Quoth's online confession #2234:

*smokes cigarette*
I'm really a Klingon...

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Shadow Robert
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Quote: "there should be a job as a part-time Matrix programmer"


the matrix might look all techy and hard, but they just scroll downt eh japanese (katakana) standard alphabet (not even the extended set) ... its a piss-o-piss to read and write with ime

and Eddie you think Leet peeps piss you off?
i had to read my girlfriend talk to me like that for like 3months, plus my sister who started it just to piss me off, and most of the people i talked to on the net.
was insane and drove me barmy!

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Thus, the dancing doll in your signature, eh?

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I don't know which annoys me more, the l33t or the dancing pillowcases

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Joeyjoejoe Shabadoo
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Really katakana, there are only 42 simbols though and I saw a few that wernt Jap defently. Otherwise the add for the Matrix (prenouced like rugtrix grr) here in Japan wouldve been picked up. I think they modeled the bases of the simbols off that, Any way they used the simbol "ka" as far as I can remember, will have another look when the add comes back on.

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MrTAToad
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Some are reversed normal characters too...

As for the dancing pillowcase - the animation looks a trifle disjointed - he has three different dances, and they dont really gell together.

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Shadow Robert
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Katakana has 6 vowels, 32 seperate letters plus another 32 triple symbols as well as another 6 for the hard letters (K R W X G T)
not to mention the words symbols.

and you also have hiragana which has about the same again plus more word symbols
its sucha lovely simple language lol

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As for the 50,000 kunji dont go there. Even though the Japanese only know about 4,000 it makes it easyer (yeah right). Kunji is the most evil f****** that walked the face of this earth. Unless you kow it then it is really usefull coz it takes out alot of reading time on comics.
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Just had a look at a matrix pic. Looks at all the kana!! I didnt notice that before. Most of it is reversed though, what a cheap rip.



Reversed the image, if you know any Japanese simbols have a look. Only Katakana and some Kanji and some numbers that they just flipped around, dissapointing really:



(On the up side, now I can make an accurate matrix screen saver)
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MrTAToad
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What is it with that animation ???

Anyway, try learning Klingon - should be fun for you!

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Hey Rose, how ya doing?

I leanr a few Klingon phrases ages ago

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hah, signature does not allow any HTML

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lol... (^_^) its amazing the totally trivial points you notice when watcing a film eh

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Indeed...

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