A concious choice, for exclamation or to add a little flair maybe. Their slang and expressive methods are different.
Bye, now. Have good sex.
Kaylee ,'Jaynestown'
Boxed Set, Vol. 1: Smallville, Due South, Farscape
A topic for the discussion of Farscape, Smallville, and Due South. Beware possible invasions of Stargate, Highlander, or pretty much anything else that captures our fancy. Expect Adult Content and discussion of the Big Gay Sex.
Thomash - May 04, 2004 8:12:23 pm PDT #5639 of 10000
I have a plan.
§ ita § - May 04, 2004 8:14:19 pm PDT #5640 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
A conscious choice in speaking? So you can control what the listener's microbes receive? I thought the microbes worked on the receiver.
This is more confusing than I thought.
Thomash - May 04, 2004 8:20:30 pm PDT #5641 of 10000
I have a plan.
This is more confusing than I thought.
Oui oui.
In some way, there's got to be some kind of give and take between talker and listener. Maybe the microbes work telepathically with each other on the subconscious level. I'll call it the Hagen Exchange. How else would the microbes be able to traslate a new language like, English?
§ ita § - May 04, 2004 8:33:04 pm PDT #5642 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
How else would the microbes be able to traslate a new language like, English?
See why I hate them?
Bring back the Babel Fish.
Emily - May 04, 2004 9:19:03 pm PDT #5643 of 10000
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
I knew they looked like DeLuises! Thank you.
DCJensen - May 04, 2004 9:24:30 pm PDT #5644 of 10000
All is well that ends in pizza.
I think of the DeLuise clan as Dom's Revenge for all the Hollywood types that pegged him as a one-note sidekick.
Thomash - May 04, 2004 9:25:48 pm PDT #5645 of 10000
I have a plan.
Bring back the Babel Fish.
Yeh, or take the Simpson's route with Kodo and Kang.
"...by an amazing coincidence, both languages are exactly the same."
DXMachina - May 05, 2004 2:41:36 am PDT #5646 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
The only Trek ep I watched before DS9 was the one where Joan Collins was not a bitch and Kirk had to let her die to prevent Hitler from winning the war.
"City of the Edge of Forever," written by Harlan Ellison.
Nutty - May 05, 2004 4:05:04 am PDT #5647 of 10000
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Poor Joan Collins. Getting hit by a mack truck would put me in a bad mood too.
I like the microbe idea better than anything else that's been proposed for translation. Because it actually involves the speaker and listener's brain in the whole process, rather than being something mechanical/electronic, and while we all can reasonably guess the limits of mechanical things and electronic things, the brain is like a Get Out Of Plot Hole Free card. Like, we can theorize ideas like what Thomash said above, and it comes within shouting distance of sense. If you've got really stentorian lungs.
The real problem with microbes is that (a) you have to get around the whole chicken-egg question of language acquisition in childhood, and (b) the people on Farscape never took a science class in their lives.
sumi - May 05, 2004 4:18:58 am PDT #5648 of 10000
Art Crawl!!!
So, did the Mutant X and Andromeda convo result from this news? Because I must have skipped it while I was skimming.