What 'safe word' would you choose/use?
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"Arn tarn rassen frassen!"
It's based on Yosemite Sam's style of swearing, though I'm not sure if he ever used exactly that phrase. A friend of mine used to use it and it stuck with me, but I doubt whether there'll be very many classic WB cartoon fans in the 'verse.
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Really nice. I was thinking German myself. I'm a fairly poor translater, so one question. Did you mean that as a command or switch the word order so it flows better?
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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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Mine would be:
"Purple elephants are flying."
(River, 'Dead or Alive').
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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.
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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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 asarian:Quote:
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.
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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"Mei-mei, everything I have is right here." -- Simon Tam
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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.
Hey ThePistonEngine, :)
Yeah, it's not a question. It's like this:
"Kommen Sie, bitte!"
Please, come!
If I wanted to do "You, rage against the night, kid," I'd probably not even use "Sie" altogether (polite form, like "vous" in French); but something like this:
"Du, wüte {dich} gegen die Nacht, Kind."
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"Colorless green ideas sleep quickly."
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!
"We gotta go to that crappy town where I'M a hero..."
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Originally posted by shinyhappyklin:Quote:
Originally posted by LaughingMuse:
"Colorless green ideas sleep quickly."
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!
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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"The light is dark"
Probably cause it is something you wouldn't hear much.
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"Firefly was never canceled." Might be a phrase you never hear.
Hahaha! Mine is an evil laugh... Now die!
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