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Hit reload, quick! It will go away!

*sending happy comforting thoughts Serenity's way*

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Monday, June 5, 2006 10:54 AM

It's gone now. Now it's Saffron.

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Monday, June 5, 2006 10:55 AM

Hmm. Not sure that is any better...at least with the Reavers, you know what's coming...

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Monday, June 5, 2006 11:05 AM

CITIZEN

ting zhi nei zhong zhi nei

wai ke pa

shi chen mo de!

More insane ramblings by the people who brought you beeeer milkshakes!
"I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalog: 'No good in a bed, but fine against a wall'." -- Eleanor Roosevelt.

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Monday, June 5, 2006 11:11 AM

Nope, didn't get any of that.

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Monday, June 5, 2006 1:05 PM

C'est tres frais! (pardonnez mon american idomatic expression) Je ne sais pas ou est Sevres ou Maison Alforts, mais ce semble interesse. Et Paris, la ville d'amour, la ville des lumieres... ahh, Paris! Tu es alle a l'ecole a Paris?! Tu es si chanceux! Comment a-tu du aller? Ahh, c'est tres chanceux! Je suis alle a Paris en ete de 2004 avec mon pere et a Provonce l'ete passe avec lui aussi. Il parle beau francais et il m'a convaincu l'etudier.
Je vous parlerai demain.
Merci, Tristan!! Au revoir

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Monday, June 5, 2006 1:19 PM

Oh....Pooh! Sorry I just don't play the french game. I won't get into why.

I'm much more a fan of the devious Sundaeing that's going on. But I suspect I may be targeted soon.

*comes up with a plan for retaliation just in case*
Yay Troll flinger!

"Don't give me what's in the window, babe
I want the stuff you think would never sell
Whatcha have under the counter on the bottom shelf?
I'll buy the lowdown deepdown primal truthful self ."
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Monday, June 5, 2006 1:23 PM

DAVESHAYNE

From English to Japanese and back again via Babblefish, "Already the sufficient of French." Nuff said.

David

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Monday, June 5, 2006 2:03 PM

It makes me happy that I, who knows no french at all, can read Mattie's drabbles and get the gist. yay!

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Monday, June 5, 2006 4:22 PM

Oooh french. I took that in high school. Too bad my brain is mush and can't remember most of it. Still I think I pretty well understood what you were all saying.

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We now return you to your regularly schedlued scheme to dowse the unsuspecting hidey people in bits of ice cream sundae ingredients.

*loads the troll flinger with several large sundaes and launches them at JH.

Direct HIT! Woo Hoo! That was awesome.!

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Monday, June 5, 2006 5:28 PM

I've been Sundaed!

*covered in ice cream, whipped cream, and the occasional cherry, JadeHand gathers his composure. He tastes the Ice Cream covering his face as he licks some of it away.*

Ummm.. Vanilla.

*Calmly he pulls a small device from behind his back and stalks towards Mai.*

"Don't give me what's in the window, babe
I want the stuff you think would never sell
Whatcha have under the counter on the bottom shelf?
I'll buy the lowdown deepdown primal truthful self ."
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Monday, June 5, 2006 5:49 PM

ORPHEUS

::Pops his head out and watches the drama/comedy/horror/historical epic play itself out from the safety of his easily breached fort.::

Sooo much better than daytime TV.

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Monday, June 5, 2006 6:07 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by CallMeSerenity:
It makes me happy that I, who knows no french at all, can read Mattie's drabbles and get the gist. yay!

Haha! I'm glad you can understand!! Thank goodness for Alta Vista, right? My only problem with that is that it only uses the formal version of "you" to conjugate verbs. Ahh, well.

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Originally posted by Mai:
We now return you to your regularly schedlued scheme to dowse the unsuspecting hidey people in bits of ice cream sundae ingredients.
*loads the troll flinger with several large sundaes and launches them at JH.
Direct HIT! Woo Hoo! That was awesome.!

Is this what you wanted my help with? I'm IN!! (who's next on your list? Orpheus is begging for it in his little fort.)

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Monday, June 5, 2006 6:56 PM

hey! it's not nice to disparage the size of a mans fort.

So Mattie was in on the whole Sundaeing of The Crystal-Digited One?
*Makes notes*

"You landed in my life Like a new and brighter light
That made all my past seem in shadow
I always used to believe That beauty was skin deep
But I need a new word to describe you
And the time that it took to take down the wall
Was the time that it took for me to fall
Hopelessly weak.
-No One Can(Holidays in Eden)-Marillion
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Monday, June 5, 2006 7:20 PM

Yep this is it, Mattie. Please, be my guest and have a turn. It's real easy and its almost impossible to miss.

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Monday, June 5, 2006 7:30 PM

Impossible to miss? that's not nice either.
I have something for you.

"You landed in my life Like a new and brighter light
That made all my past seem in shadow
I always used to believe That beauty was skin deep
But I need a new word to describe you
And the time that it took to take down the wall
Was the time that it took for me to fall
Hopelessly weak.
-No One Can(Holidays in Eden)-Marillion
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Monday, June 5, 2006 7:39 PM

What? It's not like any of you were scurrying to get out of the way.

Nice icon.

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Monday, June 5, 2006 9:11 PM

Oh, I'm to scurry now, eh?
fine then.
More new Icons:

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Monday, June 5, 2006 9:19 PM

well its sort of a little too late for the scurrying now...

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Monday, June 5, 2006 11:43 PM

SERYN

ah, bien podría ir detrás y traducir todo que usted todo escribió, pero no pienso que tengo bastantes días a la izquierda en esta tierra.

Soy tan el ir justo a fingirme entiendo. Usted sale y consigue una vida social local por dos días y mira qué sucede.

Descubrí el otro día sin embargo que incluso un cierto amor francés Francia de la gente pero no puede estar parada la vida allí debido a toda la gente francesa maldita... Sugerí Canadá, pero acaban de decir el ' meh '.

Pero gracias por precisar esta página - era libros de la lectura fijados en Quebec y guardan el decir de las cosas que no puedo entender. Son juran probablemente palabras, pero allí usted va.

Iba a hacer esto en francés, pero decidido ser difícil.

*cough*

oooh! Trollbuchet!

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Tuesday, June 6, 2006 12:23 AM

Soy El Diablo!

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Tuesday, June 6, 2006 2:11 AM

COZEN

Quote:
Originally posted by seryn:
...ser difícil.

*cough*

Babel Fishiness. To wit,

"it could well go behind and translate everything that you everything wrote, but I do not think that I have enough days to the left in this earth. I am so right to go to pretend I understand to me. You leave and obtain a local social life by two days and watches what happens. I discovered the other day nevertheless that a certain French love France of people but cannot even be shutdown there the life due to all damn French people... I suggested Canada, but they finish saying ' meh'. But thanks to need this page - it was books of the reading fixed to Quebec and keep saying of the things that I cannot understand. They are swear probably words, but you go there. He was going to do this in French, but decided to be difficult."

Um: gotcha. I'm right on it!

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Anyone care to translate that for me?

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Tuesday, June 6, 2006 2:51 AM

Ahora, eso que puedo entender, casi.

"I could go back and translate everything you wrote, but there aren't enough days left in the world. So, I'm just going to pretend I understand. You leave for two days to have a social life and look at what happens. I disovered the other day, nevertheless, a certain love of french(things?.) But French people cannont stop life due to all the damned french (yeah, can't make sense of that. Something about the damned french ruining life.)
I suggested Canada, but all they said was "meh."

But thanks to this page (thread?)-it was (this is unclear) books about Quebec and saying things I couldn't understand. They are probably swear words, but there you go.

I (well the verb here is 3rd person singular, but I'm gonna assume you meant "I") was going to do this in French, but decided it was too difficult."

Okay, that was my best shot. Translating something from English to bad spanish to bad english again is HARD.

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Tuesday, June 6, 2006 3:11 AM

Mattie, it appears the French language is not appreciated here...so, if we want to continue this, we can go elsewhere, or just write it off as a fun time.
I did enjoy it...jogged the memory a bit!
To answer in English, though:
Sevres and Maison Alforts are suburbs of Paris. I don't think I'd be able to point them out on a map anymore. I was lucky to go to the American School of Paris...the funny thing was my French teacher was actually from Saudi Arabia! I visited France and the rest of Europe almost every summer between '83 and '88, and then went back to meet my ex-wife's parents in 2000. They lived in the South, and I will agree that the Provence area is beautiful and full of friendly folk. I'm glad you got the chance to go there...just seeing Paris is not seeing the true "France"...
It has been a pleasure speaking with you, and I would love to continue, but I do not wish to risk the ire of the rest of the occupants of this thread...

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Tuesday, June 6, 2006 3:12 AM

The french doesn't bother me! But I'm a linguistics freak so all languages excite me.

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Tuesday, June 6, 2006 3:38 AM

SERYN

'I could go through and translate everything you all wrote, but I don't think I have enough days left on this Earth. I'll just make like I understood you.

You go away to get a social life for two days and look at what happens.

I did discover the other day that there are french people, who love France, but hate living there because of all the damn french people. I suggested Canada, but they just said 'meh'.

But thank you for pointing out this page, I'm reading books based in Quebec and they keep saying things I don't understand. They are probably all swear words anyway.

I was going to do this in french, but decided to be difficult.'

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Tuesday, June 6, 2006 3:41 AM

Serenity, what are your feeling on Gaeilge? I have been fascinated/obsessed with learning it since I realized I actually had Irish blood in me. Beautiful language, but oh so hard to learn...

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Tuesday, June 6, 2006 11:58 AM

LIGHTMEDARK

I've always loved languages...having said that, French has always bothered me for some reason :(

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Originally posted by Jadehand:
Soy El Diablo!

that was such a good game.

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Tuesday, June 6, 2006 12:02 PM

I understand about the French thing. I may partially speak the language, but my ex-wife planted in me a hatred of almost all things French...she was French herself...

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Tuesday, June 6, 2006 12:21 PM

Quote:
Origionally posted by Tristan:
Mattie, it appears the French language is not appreciated here...so, if we want to continue this, we can go elsewhere, or just write it off as a fun time. {. . .} It has been a pleasure speaking with you, and I would love to continue, but I do not wish to risk the ire of the rest of the occupants of this thread...

Tristan, sure, I'd love to start a new thread! That would be fun! I think we'er all fun-loving people here. It's silly if people get irked by our posts, but ah, well.
It was my pleasure! I really enjoyed speaking with you!

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Tuesday, June 6, 2006 12:30 PM

CITIZEN

it's 6/6/6 and I'm watching Max and Paddy on TV and they just stole a bus.

The 666...

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Tuesday, June 6, 2006 1:04 PM

I thought about the date as I headed off to school this morning. I'm not really one who believes in that kind of stuff, but I switced the radio from my CD to NPR really quick to make sure the world wasn't going to hell in a handbasket today.

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Tuesday, June 6, 2006 1:15 PM

CITIZEN

I actually do believe in it, but more because I think people have away of making things happen that they expect to happen.

Like Friday the 13th is unlucky for some because those that believe it makes it unlucky...

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Tuesday, June 6, 2006 1:26 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by CallMeSerenity:
But I'm a linguistics freak so all languages excite me.

*is a fan of the cunning linguistics*

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Tuesday, June 6, 2006 1:54 PM

DAVESHAYNE

Quote:
Originally posted by Jadehand:
Quote:
Originally posted by CallMeSerenity:
But I'm a linguistics freak so all languages excite me.

*is a fan of the cunning linguistics*

Another of my leftover band names - 'The Cunning Lindas'

David

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Tuesday, June 6, 2006 2:22 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Tristan:
Serenity, what are your feeling on Gaeilge? I have been fascinated/obsessed with learning it since I realized I actually had Irish blood in me. Beautiful language, but oh so hard to learn...

Oh, I LOVE it!! I would love the chance to learn. It's such a musical language. I can count to 3 and say a few simple phrases like "How's your heart?", which is apparently a form of greeting and I can sing a few songs, simply because I've listened to them a bazillion times, even if I have no idea what I'm singing. Can't spell any of it though(same problem I have with french. I really do love languages that look like they sound!) Oh, but I love it and if I had a chance to learn it....

This is my problem. I pick up bits of languages everywhere. I can ask where the bathroom is in Turkish and sing a song about a bunny rabbit in Korean and count to 10 in Hungarian, but I don't know enough in any to carry a conversation.

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Tuesday, June 6, 2006 2:23 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by citizen:
I actually do believe in it, but more because I think people have away of making things happen that they expect to happen.

Like Friday the 13th is unlucky for some because those that believe it makes it unlucky...

I understand that, and that's why I don't believe in it. Sure, number symbology is important to a degree, but I think that some people worry too much about it and they start to see or suspect things on special days such as today that aren't necessarily out of the ordinary, they just haven't noticed them before. It's kinda the same concept as a person who thinks their sick all of the time, and thinking they're sick makes them that way (I know there's a word for that, but I can't seem to find it in my brain files right now).

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Tuesday, June 6, 2006 3:09 PM

CYBERSNARK

"Day" is a vestigial mode of time measurement. . .

Quote:
Originally posted by Mattie:
It's kinda the same concept as a person who thinks their sick all of the time, and thinking they're sick makes them that way (I know there's a word for that, but I can't seem to find it in my brain files right now).

Hypochondria.
Placebo effect.
Psychosomatic.

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Tuesday, June 6, 2006 3:16 PM

THANK YOU, Cybersnark!!!
*Mattie pulls out her filing cabnet and puts the word "Hypochondriac" in a very safe place*
Ahh, that's better!

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Tuesday, June 6, 2006 4:47 PM

Serenity, ah, yes! 'Tis a beautiful language. I managed to spend eight days in Dublin in '98, and was thrilled to hear the language actually spoken (rather than seeing it written phoenetically) and fell in love with it. I spent awhile trying to learn, and like you, can say several phrases, but that's about it...brain's getting too old to learn new languages!

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Tuesday, June 6, 2006 11:09 PM

SERYN

I think the issue with yesterday is that Nostradamus predicted that it was 06/06/2006 that the antichrist would be reborn.

So being non-christian, i'm not too worried. But we were saying the other day, whats to betting the NSA or whoever are making notes and planning to keep tabs on all the babies born yesterday? Especially the ones born at 6 minutes past 6 in the morning?

We were also saying that were we pregnant and expecting that day we'd just be sat very still with out legs tightly crossed until the stroke of midnight had passed. Ain't no baby of mine growning up to be no antichrist! Talk about the blacksheep of the family.

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Wednesday, June 7, 2006 2:39 AM

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Originally posted by seryn:
Ain't no baby of mine growning up to be no antichrist!

ROFL!!!! Oh, the sides hurt! Can't breathe!!!

I just have this funny image of the parents of the anti-christ trying to De-demonize their child. You know, grounding him for sacrificing goats or trying to get the mark of the beast surgically removed. And, when the dad catches him reading the satanic bible or something, he gets spanked and the dad says, "Ain't no son of mine is growin' up to be no anti-christ!"

Being a Christian, I can laugh at all this even more, because I know that's not how things are gonna work.

And that reminds me. Anyone read "Good Omens"? FUNNY book.

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Wednesday, June 7, 2006 2:41 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Tristan:
Serenity, ah, yes! 'Tis a beautiful language. I managed to spend eight days in Dublin in '98, and was thrilled to hear the language actually spoken (rather than seeing it written phoenetically) and fell in love with it. I spent awhile trying to learn, and like you, can say several phrases, but that's about it...brain's getting too old to learn new languages!

Gah! now I want to run away to Ireland. You shouldn't tell me these things. I was reading the other day about how Chamorro is dying (language of Guam, where I was born) and now I want to go back there, become fluent and help preserve it.

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Wednesday, June 7, 2006 3:00 AM

Morning, all!

Serenity, I had heard that the Irish language was dying, but actually being there set me at ease. There is at least one tv station that broadcasts all their programs in that language, and you can hear it on the streets every now and then. If you have a chance to talk to DeskTopHippie, ask her about it...apparently, it is taught in school as a mandatory class.

Guam? You were born in Guam?!? How cool is that! How long did you stay there?

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Wednesday, June 7, 2006 3:10 AM

I was in Guam for 6 years.

Ireland has really made some steps to save Gaelic. Guam has lobbied unsuccesfully for legistion through the US for funding to save Chammoro.(one of the downsides of being a territory.) When I was there, it was taught in schools, too. I think it still is. I took a year and a half of it.

I can still say Hafa adai and Asta agupa and si yu'use ma'ase and a few phrases. It's weird, because when I hear it, it sounds like I should know what they're saying, but I don't. Kinda frustrating.

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Wednesday, June 7, 2006 3:17 AM

It looks like a cross between Spanish and an Indian dialect (what, in Guam, ya think? [sarcasm towards myself]). Are there many native speakers left? I think that was the problem with Gaelic. They re-wrote most of, if not all of, the language in 1948, I think...I'm a bit rusty on my Irish language history (for shame!). I am glad it is still a viable language, though.

Mattie, if you get to read this, bonjour! J'espère que vous avez survécu hier bien.

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Wednesday, June 7, 2006 3:25 AM

It is sort of a cross between Spanish and asian languages, mostly Filipino. At least in the basics. Like in counting. In Chamorro, you count to 10 like this: uno, dos, tres, kuatro, sinko, sais, siette, ocho, nuebi, dies.

Pronounced almost exactly like Spanish.

There's also another number system that no one really uses anymore that's more like filipino, but I don't know it. Except one is Hacha.

Oh yeah, and the problem is, now that it's an american territory, everyone just speaks english mostly, so it's dying out. Such a shame.

See, Tristan, what happens when you get me talking about languages? I don't shut up. *sigh*.

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Wednesday, June 7, 2006 3:41 AM

Yes, it does sound like Spanish when read out loud...co-workers are wondering what I am doing

I was under the impression that Filipino was a version of Spanish that "evolved" in the same way the Spanish spoken in Mexico has done; through absorbing the native tongue. I have never actually heard it spoken.

I, too, am in love with languages...I had been talking to Mattie in French, but did not think it was appropriate to clutter up this thread with French. I mentioned starting another thread for language not of the 'verse...I think I will do that. I'll be back with a link soon.

-EDIT-

http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=11&t=21338
Language Discussion-Outside the Verse.

See you there!

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Wednesday, June 7, 2006 3:42 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by seryn:
I think the issue with yesterday is that Nostradamus predicted that it was 06/06/2006 that the antichrist would be reborn.

Ahh, I see. I thought it would be a fantastic terrorist attack day when the thought first crossed my mind-- but hey, they don't need any special date to blow up people on the subway (unless I'm missing something).

Quote:
Ain't no baby of mine growning up to be no antichrist! Talk about the blacksheep of the family.

Haha!

Quote:
Originally posted by Tristan:
Mattie, if you get to read this, bonjour! J'espère que vous avez survécu hier bien.

Merci, mon ami! J'ai survecu heir, mais seulement juste (je plaisante). C'etait heir tres chaud--aussi chaud que l'enfer(hehe)--celui est ce qui se produit quand vous vivez dans un desert. J'espere que vous avez survecu hier bien, aussi! Et, j'espere que vous avez un jour fantastique aujourd'hui! J'espere avoir plus de temps pour repondre aujourd'hui.

Wacky fun!
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