So why did none of you tell me about Google in Klingon?
You like ships. You don't seem to be looking at the destinations. What you care about is the ships, and mine's the nicest.
Kaylee ,'Serenity'
Natter 43: I Love My Dead Gay Whale Crosspost.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Fay - Apr 07, 2006 8:43:56 am PDT #9469 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Toddson - Apr 07, 2006 8:49:28 am PDT #9470 of 10001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I heard somewhere that in California the mental health agencies have had to have Klingon translators on call, if not on staff, because of the number of people who turn up believing they're Klingons and can't speak English (or any other terrestrial language).
erikaj - Apr 07, 2006 8:53:19 am PDT #9471 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
OMG.
Jessica - Apr 07, 2006 8:56:25 am PDT #9472 of 10001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
The original article stated plainly that "in reality, no patient has yet tried to communicate in Klingon," and noted that the county health department wasn't actually spending any money to hire Klingon interpreters but simply adding Klingon to a list of languages for which interpreters might be needed someday.
Toddson - Apr 07, 2006 8:57:22 am PDT #9473 of 10001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
bah! one again reality overcomes the fun of fiction!
tommyrot - Apr 07, 2006 8:57:34 am PDT #9474 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I almost want to learn Klingon, just so I can read the porn....
tommyrot - Apr 07, 2006 9:00:53 am PDT #9475 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I found an online Klingon translator: [link]
Sorry there is no translation in our database for Fuck me hard..
Sorry there is no translation in our database for The penguins have escaped..
Bah. What's the point?
sumi - Apr 07, 2006 9:03:23 am PDT #9476 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Klingon is obviously not a natter-friendly language: is there Klingon for Pandas? Ponies? Pirates?
Jessica - Apr 07, 2006 9:06:24 am PDT #9477 of 10001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
What good is a language that has no word for penguin, I ask you?
Perhaps they have only a word for space-penguin.
tommyrot - Apr 07, 2006 9:07:09 am PDT #9478 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
is there Klingon for Pandas? Ponies? Pirates?
Not for 'pirate' or 'pony.'
IOLanguageN: Word of the day: Froschmausekrieg
OK, it's German (sort of), but like schadenfreude, schnitzel, and schnauzers, it's easily adopted. George Dyson explains:
My favorite (descriptive if not lengthy) German word is Froschmausekrieg. It means "war between the frogs and the mice" and the file in this photo was so named by Helen Dukas (Einstein's secretary and literary executor) to describe the long and bitter dispute between the School of Math and the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study. A good word to know when facing such a dispute.