Ramblings on Bushwacked
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UPDATED: Thursday, October 12, 2017 09:40
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Originally posted by Jasonzzz:
Those "spoken" words in Cantonese are 'writable', they are often expressed directly in comics, for example. (When a cantonese writes something down on paper, it's usually in "Chinese" with very few "Cantonese" words/sounds, if any at all...) But the Cantonese "words" that are written would be virtually indistinguishable from anyother Chinese ideogram. The only difference being that it would be full of "sounds" only used and understable by a Cantonese speaking person.
I remember seeing a Hong Kong newspaper once and saw the letter "D" scattered throughout the entire paper. It took me a while to catch on to what was going on. Kinda funny, really. I guess it was the easiest way to write "D".
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Originally posted by ReyvnDarKnight:
To be honest, I hope Whedon changes his mind about that element of the series. As I said before, I like the element of western motif. But a sci-fi series without an alien or extra-terrestrial sub-plot and contiual western motif could limit the potential of the series as well as quickly wear thin the interest of some sci-fi fans.
I know that the discussion has moved on from this, but I just have to respond, so...
I like having aliens in sci fi, but in some cases (and in many more recent shows, IMO) I feel that the aliens actually take away from the characters and plot developement. Sometimes people get a little too carried away by the latex in the show. Besides, there is other sci fi material that excludes aliens and still manage to pull it off.
I'm actually looking forward to seeing a show with all humans. There is a possiblity of it getting boring, of course. However, from what I've seen so far, the writers have left themselves a lot of maneuvering room. As long as the show isn't written into a corner, I think it will remain interesting, with or without aliens.
(Just a quick little side note: This is my first post here so I just wanted to make sure that I said 'Hi' to everyone and give you all fair warning of a newbie.)
~ Delsie
"Efficiency is intelligent laziness." - David Dunham
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Originally posted by Haken:
As someone who lives in a place where Chinese, Japanese, and Korean are used quite extensively by the local population, let me just clarify this matter a bit as there seems to be some confusion here.
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Well, one last comment. The Chinese don't refer to Mandarin as "Mandarin". It's known as "Putonghua", which literally means the "Common Language".
Ah, thanks Haken... your explanation is just more succinct and better thought out than mine... All of the literary writing does pay off.
hehehe... didn't help that I was reading this and /. and trying to hide from the boss...
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Quote:You're doing fine! Welcome to the party.
Originally posted by delsie:
I like having aliens in sci fi, but in some cases (and in many more recent shows, IMO) I feel that the aliens actually take away from the characters and plot developement. Sometimes people get a little too carried away by the latex in the show. Besides, there is other sci fi material that excludes aliens and still manage to pull it off.
I'm actually looking forward to seeing a show with all humans. There is a possiblity of it getting boring, of course. However, from what I've seen so far, the writers have left themselves a lot of maneuvering room. As long as the show isn't written into a corner, I think it will remain interesting, with or without aliens.
(Just a quick little side note: This is my first post here so I just wanted to make sure that I said 'Hi' to everyone and give you all fair warning of a newbie.)
JOSS, WHERE'S MY CHECK???!!!
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zicsoft, the confederates so called fondness for slavery is made up. Somewhere less than %5 of southerners owned slaves, and the emancipation proclamation originally only freed southern slaves, not northern ones. Lincoln did not wan`t to piss off his northern supporters that owned slaves. Way off topic, this stuff just bugs me.
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Quote:I'm well aware that there was more to the CSA than a defense of slavery. I've even posted rants on this board on the topic. But you can't get around the fact the slavery issue was the basis of most north-south quarrels, and that the election of an Abolitionist president was the proximate cause of the war. Maybe most southerners thought in terms of "states rights" rather than their individual "right" to own slaves -- but it comes to the same thing.
Originally posted by loonytoon:
zicsoft, the confederates so called fondness for slavery is made up. Somewhere less than %5 of southerners owned slaves, and the emancipation proclamation originally only freed southern slaves, not northern ones. Lincoln did not wan`t to piss off his northern supporters that owned slaves. Way off topic, this stuff just bugs me.
Put it another way: southerners were frantic to maintain the subordinate status of blacks. Slavery was the most obvious way to do it, but when slavery was banned, they managed to find other means. Hypocritical of the north to meddle, of course -- northern blacks were not treated fairly either, and even banned from whole states. But since when is consistency a part of politics?
There's one little ironic detail even Confederacy apologists often overlook. If the CSA had somehow managed to win the war, the most influential person in that new nation would have been Robert E. Lee. Who did not own slaves. Who was the scion of a family that considered slavery immoral. It's probably an oversimplification to call the Lees "abolitionist", but General Lee would have certainly used his post-war stature to try to get slavery banned. Interesting to speculate what might have come of that.
JOSS, WHERE'S MY CHECK???!!!
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Introduction of Reavers.
And the first inkling of what River's capabilities are.
Reavers and River.
With this second show aired, while Maybe and Simon are posturing about which is more heroic, Kaylee leaves them in the dust.
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I forgot to mention that BW had the highest viewership rating of any episode.
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Also, when I watched BW on my DVD Disc One, I recalled that Firefly was the reason I had to buy a DVD Player, and a widescreen flatscreen to watch it on.
Just to see a show I'd only seen 2 1/2 episodes of.
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