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Originally posted by JamesTheDark:
I'd probably use "Wüten Sie gegen die Nacht, Kind." Partly because it just flows off the tongue, and partly because its in a language not many in the 'Verse seem to speak. And it certainly has something to do with the psychotic behavior.

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Looks like your phrase has to do with "night" and "child", but so people don't have to use a machine translation or a German/English dictionary, what does it mean?

When I was younger, an effective phrase that could've been used for me is: "I'm telling mom!!!"

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Originally posted by JamesTheDark:
I'd probably use "Wüten Sie gegen die Nacht, Kind." Partly because it just flows off the tongue, and partly because its in a language not many in the 'Verse seem to speak. And it certainly has something to do with the psychotic behavior.

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Originally posted by JamesTheDark:

I'd probably use "Wüten Sie gegen die Nacht, Kind." Partly because it just flows off the tongue, and partly because its in a language not many in the 'Verse seem to speak. And it certainly has something to do with the psychotic behavior.

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Originally posted by asarian:

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Originally posted by JamesTheDark:

I'd probably use "Wüten Sie gegen die Nacht, Kind." Partly because it just flows off the tongue, and partly because its in a language not many in the 'Verse seem to speak. And it certainly has something to do with the psychotic behavior.

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Fortunately, I speak German quite well. :) (I'm not German, btw).

It says: "Rage against the night, child." Very reminiscent of: "Rage, rage against the dying of the light."


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Originally posted by ThePistonEngine:

Aha, that makes better sense now. I tend to translate to literally. So when I saw the verb-subject, I immediately thought question, which didn't make sense. Then I though command, but included the "You" left off in English commands.

So I was thinking "You, rage against the night, kid," which somehow didn't work quite so well and hence my confusion.

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Originally posted by LaughingMuse:
"Colorless green ideas sleep quickly."

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Ah, the classic Noam Chomsky line....although isn't the last word peacefully? (or was it fitfully....hmmmm...gotta go back and read that chapter of the linguistics book, I guess).

In Cherokee that would be awesome!

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Originally posted by LaughingMuse:
"Colorless green ideas sleep quickly."

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Ah, the classic Noam Chomsky line....although isn't the last word peacefully? (or was it fitfully....hmmmm...gotta go back and read that chapter of the linguistics book, I guess).

In Cherokee that would be awesome!

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Originally posted by LaughingMuse:
"Colorless green ideas sleep quickly."

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Ah, the classic Noam Chomsky line....although isn't the last word peacefully? (or was it fitfully....hmmmm...gotta go back and read that chapter of the linguistics book, I guess).

In Cherokee that would be awesome!

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I originally heard it as "quickly", though come to think of it, any adverb that wouldn't lexically fit with "sleep" would work.

Fitfully halfway makes sense. So does peacefully. The idea is: syntactically, the sentence parses. Semantically, the sentence parses. Lexically...the sentence falls on its colourless green backside. :D

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Originally posted by ThePistonEngine:
Ok, I've had my German lesson today, time for my English one.

As I understand it, syntactics would be how the words work together grammitically, semantics would be do the words work together to form a meaning, and lexically... ummm... do the words, for lack of a better word, simply fit?

So, syntactically, it works. The sentence is grammatical.
Semantically it works. If you broke down it's meaning, it'd mean "ideas which are colorless and green sleep and a high rate of speed."
But lexically, it doesn't make sense. It means something, but the meaning is nonsensical.

Do I have it right?
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Originally posted by LaughingMuse:

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Originally posted by ThePistonEngine:
Ok, I've had my German lesson today, time for my English one.

As I understand it, syntactics would be how the words work together grammitically, semantics would be do the words work together to form a meaning, and lexically... ummm... do the words, for lack of a better word, simply fit?

So, syntactically, it works. The sentence is grammatical.
Semantically it works. If you broke down it's meaning, it'd mean "ideas which are colorless and green sleep and a high rate of speed."
But lexically, it doesn't make sense. It means something, but the meaning is nonsensical.

Do I have it right?
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Yes, that's it exactly.

Colorless doesn't fit with green - green is a color. A color, by definition, can't be without color.
Green doesn't fit with ideas - ideas are intangible, and can only have color in the poetic sense.
Ideas doesn't fit with sleep - sleep is state which is achieved by living things, not by inanimate objects or concepts (again, unless you get poetical)
...and so forth.

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Originally posted by JamesTheDark:

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Looks like your phrase has to do with "night" and "child", but so people don't have to use a machine translation or a German/English dictionary, what does it mean?

When I was younger, an effective phrase that could've been used for me is: "I'm telling mom!!!"

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I'll tell it to you, if you explain what the hell yours is. I suck at anagrams, so cut me a break.

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Originally posted by xenoprobe:

Furcifer Diem

This literally translates to "Scoundrel Days",

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