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Old 02-17-2011, 02:33 PM   #1246
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how about all those aliens speaking english?
Well, if it was good enough for Jesus and John Wayne...
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Old 02-17-2011, 02:41 PM   #1247
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how about all those aliens speaking english?
You know, in fact that bit was explained in an episode of Deep Space Nine (or was it TNG?). An alien arrived at the station and at first, nobody could understand her because her language was so... alien that the translating AI couldn't figure it out. She kept speaking and nobody understood her, until suddenly an English word crept in, which was the sign that the AI was beginning to catch up. Pretty soon she was speaking fluent English.

Neat, huh?
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You know, in fact that bit was explained in an episode of Deep Space Nine (or was it TNG?). An alien arrived at the station and at first, nobody could understand her because her language was so... alien that the translating AI couldn't figure it out. She kept speaking and nobody understood her, until suddenly an English word crept in, which was the sign that the AI was beginning o catch up. Pretty soon she was speaking fluent English.

Neat, huh?
I believe there was another DS9 episode when Quark wound up on 20th century Earth and his Universal Translator was damaged.
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... Pretty soon she was speaking fluent English ...
Which dialect? No wait ... let me guess!
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I believe there was another DS9 episode when Quark wound up on 20th century Earth and his Universal Translator was damaged.
Picturing Quark on Earth... He's the guy with the big ears, right?
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yep! i have been found out
i find their quotes fascinating.
here's another quote not included in the show but from a British writer quoted in CM.
Fascinating is the right word - have you noticed how the meaning changes when you watch an episode for the second ( or 8th ) time? I keep finding myself doing the infamous "OH, so that's how they meant it"

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Translation microbes in Farscape were neater
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Translation microbes in Farscape were neater
Ah yes, that's true

And in Dancers at the End of Time they had translation pills...

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... and at the end of the book after lots of going back and forth in time, they all end up speaking 19th Century English.
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Picturing Quark on Earth... He's the guy with the big ears, right?
Yes, of that ultra-capitalist race of beings known as the Ferengi, who'd sell their soul for an ounce of Gold-Pressed Latinum. As I recall, the military took him prisoner.
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Old 02-18-2011, 09:10 AM   #1255
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.....And, in fact, I told Stewart this, the most beautiful sight in orbit, or one of the most beautiful sights, is a urine dump at sunset, because as the stuff comes out, and as it hits the exit nozzle it instantly flashes into ten million little ice crystals which go out almost in a hemisphere, because, you know, you're exiting into essentially a perfect vacuum, and so the stuff goes in every direction, and all radially out from the spacecraft at relatively high velocity. It's surprising, and it's an incredible stream of … just a spray of sparklers almost. It's really a spectacular sight. At any rate that's the urine system on Apollo.
..........— Russell Louis "Rusty" Schweickart [aka Schweikart] (1935 - ), American astronaut. Conversation with Peter Warshall, reported in Warshall's essay "There Ain't No Graceful Way: Urination and Defecation in Zero-G", Space World, Vol. P 1 181, pages 16-19 (Jan. 1979).
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Ok, what did I just say?
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Ok, what did I just say?
See what Kenny said about me when I posted that!

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See what Kenny said about me when I posted that!

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Ah, that. Pfffffff. "Sick" is what the cool kids use instead of "cool" these days, no?
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That's what I always tell myself!

"You're sick, man!"

"Yeah, baby. I'm a happening dude, alright! Thanks!"
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