April 11

[Zeke]

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After the longest April Fool's Day since 2002, welcome back to Five-Minute [i:post_uid0]Voyager[/i:post_uid0]. I'd like to thank IJD GAF, Derek Dean, and Sa'ar Chasm for joining in the Cheese festivities, and you guys for reading, of course. Hope you enjoyed this weeklong diversion -- now it's back to real 5MV events, and we've got a [i:post_uid0]lot[/i:post_uid0] coming in the next couple of months.


By the way, Five-Minute Cheese will continue as a section, and will continue to be updated. (There's one cheeser still waiting to be published, in fact.) The link on the front page is temporary, but I need a prominent 5MC link there for a while, because people will still be following outside links to the event.


Any comments on the Five-Minute Cheese event? Post them in the thread below. And Happy Easter, all.[/color:post_uid0]

[Derek]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Just wanted to say I thought the cheese event was hilarious. Congrats to Zeke for doing it, and to Sa'ar and IJD for their contributions. I loved them all, even the ones I'd never seen.[/color:post_uid0]

[Scooter]

[quote:post_uid0="Derek"][color=#000000:post_uid0]Just wanted to say I thought the cheese event was hilarious. Congrats to Zeke for doing it, and to Sa'ar and IJD for their contributions. I loved them all, even the ones I'd never seen.[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]What he said and plenty of it.[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]As long as we're all doing this...

Congratulations to Derek and Acronym Guy for their contributions, and to Zeke for organising the whole thing. That was one of the most successful and enjoyable (and longest) April Fool's gags I've ever seen. Much better than putting Saran wrap on the toilet seat.[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I LOVED it! It's going to be a hard April's Fool joke to beat, Zeke. You'd better start planning for next year now... :)[/color:post_uid0]

[mudshark]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I thought it was great. It's a good thing to muck about outside the established universe, once in a while.[/color:post_uid0]

[evay]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]An outstanding job! And some really hilarious work -- some of the best on the site. Kudos all around.

Next year I think you should fiver State of the Union addresses. :D[/color:post_uid0]

[Nic Corelli]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]It was bloody hilarious, :D :D I can`t wait for May Fools jokes! :p[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Fantastic! :D

[quote:post_uid0]Acronym Guy[/quote:post_uid0]
But we have two of those! :p And at least IJD GAF is pronounceable.

*Gets stared at*

What?[/color:post_uid0]

[Katy Jane]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Its realy starting to bug you isn't it Cat?


So we're keeping the cheese around? woohoo![/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]Its realy starting to bug you isn't it Cat?[/quote:post_uid0]
1. No.
2. What is?
3. It has for ages.
But seriously, what the frell are you talking about? :p[/color:post_uid0]

[elvii]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I'd comment, but I'm too busy offering a cat to RA.. or blowing up his ship, depending on which series/movie we're talking about. :)

Good job Zeke and crew, just stay away from Phlox and his hypospray![/color:post_uid0]

[Wowbagger]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Very amusing. Very, very amusing. Now, GET THEE GONE, DEMON CHEESE!

--
Wowbagger: Unregistered so John Ashcroft can't hunt me down.[/color:post_uid0]

[NAHTMMM]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Lots of fun, Zeke! Some hilarious material, a big surprise, and it probably helped to think outside the box for a few days (even if most of the non-sci-fi shows still had sci-fi references). :D


And yeah, Sa'ar was [i:post_uid0]not[/i:post_uid0] referring to me. ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[Michiel]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Yup. It was hilarious. Great job!

[quote:post_uid0]And at least IJD GAF is pronounceable.[/quote:post_uid0]

:p You just can't resist, can you?[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Ah, the one person on this forum who knows what I'm talking about. :D

Indeed, I could not. ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[Katy Jane]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]nevermind, apparently i'm the one who is coufused ... but then thats normal for me :p[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I guess I'm just confusing. ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[mudshark]

[quote:post_uid0="catalina_marina"][color=#000000:post_uid0]Ah, the one person on this forum who knows what I'm talking about. :D[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]Is that so? :p[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Yes. Well, I've told certain people, but he [i:post_uid0]knows[/i:post_uid0]. :D

Are you implying you know what I was talking about as well?[/color:post_uid0]

[mudshark]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]If you meant pronouncable in Dutch, then yes (although I did have to think about it.)[/color:post_uid0]

[Nic Corelli]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]It`s very easily pronouncable in Croatian too... almost like "hello" in English... bwahahah! :D :D[/color:post_uid0]

[Katy Jane]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I am totaly, compleatly and utterly confused now :S :lol:[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]There's an ij in "bok"? :p[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I think my brain may have just imploded.[/color:post_uid0]

[Nic Corelli]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]See, in English you have to say [Aye Jay Dee Gee Aey Eff]. While in Croatian you just say [iyd gaf]. That`s it. :D :D

That`s probably the only case where English is more complicated than this convoluted nightmare of a language.[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Oh yeah? What about www? Do you have Way Way Way? We do.

English is a very nice language, but sometimes they make it more difficult than it has to be. :eyeroll:[/color:post_uid0]

[Michiel]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]On the other hand, I've noticed that I often know an English word (and its meaning), but not the Dutch translation.

Also, we don't have verbal contractions. :)[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]It's not just you. But I've learned to accept it. And so have my friends. In fact, most of my friends have the same problem. :D[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I find it ironic that Celtic and indigenous North American peoples are fighting to preserve their languages, and the Dutch are willingly abandoning theirs.[/color:post_uid0]

[mudshark]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]The difference being, of course, that Dutch is in no danger of becoming a lost language any time soon. For numerous North American tribes, the danger is very real, and in some cases has already happened.

For the Celtic languages, it lies somewhere in the middle: Cornish is functionally a dead language and Manx never had that many speakers to begin with, but the rest have been making comebacks for the last few decades.[/color:post_uid0]

[Zeke]

[quote:post_uid0="Nic Corelli"][color=#000000:post_uid0]See, in English you have to say [Aye Jay Dee Gee Aey Eff]. While in Croatian you just say [iyd gaf]. That`s it. :D :D[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]It varies, actually. Kira always spells it out, for example, but I just say "ih-jud gaf."[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Actually, I find both "Ijd gaf" and "Nahtmmm" quite pronounceable.

"Ijd gaf" sounds more Dutch than Croatian, though. ::slaps forehead:: Argh. That nearly came out as "hrvatian". I blame the lateness of the hour. :p

This forum needs a vampire smiley. :[[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]It varies, actually. Kira always spells it out, for example, but I just say "ih-jud gaf." [/quote:post_uid0]

Actually, you said "Ijid" (rhymes with frigid).[/color:post_uid0]

[Derek]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I say IJD GAF as "Aye Jay Dee gaff" and NAHTMMM as "moth man" (his avatar is presumably a butterfly but that lacks the alliteration).

[quote:post_uid0]This forum needs a vampire smiley. :[[/quote:post_uid0]
Not too mention also a vampire puppet smiley.[/color:post_uid0]

[NAHTMMM]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0="Derek"]I say ... NAHTMMM as "moth man"[/quote:post_uid0]
*giggles* ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]I find it ironic that Celtic and indigenous North American peoples are fighting to preserve their languages, and the Dutch are willingly abandoning theirs.[/quote:post_uid0]
Dutch is not a great language. Actually, there are a lot of people who want to preserve Dutch. They're called literarians. At least, I think they're called that... They do literature, ok? :p

[quote:post_uid0]The difference being, of course, that Dutch is in no danger of becoming a lost language any time soon.[/quote:post_uid0]
For many different reasons. We don't live among native English speakers. Then there is the fact that not only Dutch people speak Dutch.

[quote:post_uid0]"Ijd gaf" sounds more Dutch than Croatian, though.[/quote:post_uid0]
If you want it to sound Dutch, capitalize the J. :eyeroll:[/color:post_uid0]

[Zeke]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]We had a vampire puppet smiley, but its nose came off.[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Re Cletic languages - have you ever tried learning Gaelic (as in ga-lic, [i:post_uid0]not[/i:post_uid0] gay-lic)?

Yeah, just you go ahead and make a comment. I dares ya.

Anyway, back to the topic, it's fiendishly difficult, and required learning in schools in at least the Outer Hebrides ( possibly elsewhere in the Highlands too, I don't know) AS WELL AS the likes of French (which I was rubbish at too, but that's neither here nor there). Possibly it would have been easier if I'd been brought up there, but being dumped straight into the second year of secondary Gaelic meant I had no chance. I still vaguely remember how to say hello, but that's about it. Oh yeah, and "bh" sounds like a "v". But really, nothing else.

Yeah, well, it's one-thirty in the morning, and I just know this is going to make no sense tomorrow, but hey, what do I care?[/color:post_uid0]

[Gatac]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Well, I've met my share of Germans who tried to stem back the flood of English words, but for the most part they were crackpots. Not that I'm suggesting a causal link, but most reasonable people don't have anything against it.

I don't want us to end up like France, that's all. No offense to French people, but your government has notions of cultural purity that quite frankly scare me. In my book, everyone who thinks he has to make up a new word for "walkman" just plain doesn't get what's going on in the world. (Besides, "balladeur" is a pretty stupid replacement.)

Also, as already said, sometimes you just can't say it in your native language. I can't count how often I've strained to explain something in German that's perfectly clear in my head - in English.

Gatac[/color:post_uid0]

[Michiel]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Hehe. :) Join the club. Like, is there a German word for 'sibling'? In Dutch there's only 'brother' and 'sister'.

[quote:post_uid0]We had a vampire puppet smiley, but its nose came off.[/quote:post_uid0]

It's only now that I've seen that episode that I get the joke. :D Bwaha. It's the wee-little-puppet-man.[/color:post_uid0]

[Gatac]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Well, there's a German word for "siblings", but not for those of the single persuasion. It's really rather illogical, but on the other hand, I always feel like you can really lay the smack down with complicated words and phrases in German...perhaps my knowledge of English vocabulary is simply a bit lacking, though.

Gata[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]Like, is there a German word for 'sibling'? In Dutch there's only 'brother' and 'sister'.[/quote:post_uid0]
And that's quite annoying. I've recently tried to say "It makes no sense" in Dutch. It resulted in 30 seconds of saying "uh" and then saying it in English. On the other side, there's no English word for "gezellig". Yeah, "companionable", but that doesn't quite catch the true meaning. :eyeroll:[/color:post_uid0]

[Michiel]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I've learned just to say the damn thing in English. It's one of the things that annoy my friends. :D The other is that I randomly quote Star Trek.

Though they did laugh when I quoted ambassador Spock: "Yes". He must have said it at some point.[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Well, I do the same when talking to friends, and since they're just as bad as me, that's no problem. :D

The [i:post_uid0]problem[/i:post_uid0] was, that these people were not my friend, I just met them, and I wanted to make a Dutch impression. A stupid thing to do, obviously. :eyeroll:[/color:post_uid0]

[Michiel]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]What about: "Het slaat nergens op"[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]*Slaps head*

Of course! :think:[/color:post_uid0]