This whole outing is a pre-mission team-bonding thing to work out their issues with each other, so technically anything that improves relations between any of the three of them is on point. Including casual conversation.
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I’m thinking it’s Cherokee, although I can’t say with metaphysical certainty. It doesn’t look angular enough to be any of the Canadian aboriginal syllabics.
Pretty sure it’s not Arabic or Farsi–I can’t read either, but I saw enough of the script growing up to know the look of it.
It’s definitely Arabic script. I don’t read it either, but my best attempt at transcribing it is مرا?م كلـبك. Google Translate gives me “dog” for “كلـبك”, but going the other way I get “كلب”.
As someone with only a passing familiarity: Cherokee doesn’t string together symbols, nor does it have any individual ones wide/complex enough to be that thing on the right of the dot with the slanted underline.
I don’t remember much of the language, but I could probably still read the numerals… iirc “kemo” is fish though. And ‘shorah’ is literally peace, but idiomatically is used as a greeting. Shorah b’shem’tee is literally “peace to y’all”, idiomatically “hi guys!” (though more formal). ‘eder’ is rest, when used for the name of an age implies a ‘garden’ age. Oh, and intensifiers were, while I don’t remember the actual words, literally translated as “to “, traditionally to 25 is the highest but in informal usage going beyond 25 was used as hyperbole.
damn we need someone who speaks arabic
thast said, maybe im just crazy, but i still cant ship tip with anyone but tigerlily. i mean i like him with artie, but, i will forever pine for that one crazy bitch who stole his heart
Nice choice- one of the few languages that’s notoriously harder to read than to speak….. I never learned Arabic, but I did try (and fail) to learn the related Urdu script once.
Thai is also very hard to read. It took the worst of Chinese and Hindu and combined them together.
Having helped those who had to pass the TOEFL (like my mother), I will say from their perspective, English is probably the most difficult language to master. It’s like it was created by a bunch of drunk Vikings. (Which it probably was.)
English is a language created by Norman soldiers trying to pick up the local barmaids, who spoke language created by Anglo Saxons trying to pick up the local barmaids, who spoke a language created by Roman soldiers trying to pick up the local barmaids, all influenced by Scots ans Welsh trying to pick up the local barmaids.
In addition, while many languages borrow words from other languages, English speakers follow speakers of other languages into dark alley to mug them and rifle through their pockets for words, grammar and sentence constructions.
Art [not Artie] comment for Shaenon: I always assumed that hatching at the edges of some characters was to indicate dark skin, while leaving most of the skin clear for expressiveness. You don’t need to do that now that you have color!
Nomi’s comment is an intereting one, but from the examples of hatching on both Tip and Virginia, it’s also being used to represent shading. So, a shaded area of Artie’s face would still get hatching, to show the direction of the light source if nothing else.
So, is Artie distracting Virginia so he can make her “disappear”? We did hear a few strips ago about a Gerbil Man being against Prop 39, and she’s got the brain machine to help make it happen. …I have no idea how Skin Horse could beat a post-human intellect, though. SO I suspect Anasigma will be involved in this kerfuffle too.
They can beat a post-human intellect through their greatest strength: sufficient oddity and bizarreness to make even Artie’s head hurt. ESPECIALLY make Artie’s head hurt.
“Iptay! Ouyay upidstay erkjay!”
Despite its rather unscientific nature, it seems that Virginia is not, in fact, working to make mojo sane.
So is Artie speaking a real language, or is that just some random scribbling?
that’s arabic
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What does written Gwichin look like?
Why would Artie know? His Gwichin is terrible!
Gate theory? Unless it relates to the mission, Tip is the only one on point. Lee and Artie are a waste of space, so far.
This whole outing is a pre-mission team-bonding thing to work out their issues with each other, so technically anything that improves relations between any of the three of them is on point. Including casual conversation.
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Looks like Arabic, Farsi, or some dialect of one or the other. I don’t know enough to either distinguish or translate, though.
I’m thinking it’s Cherokee, although I can’t say with metaphysical certainty. It doesn’t look angular enough to be any of the Canadian aboriginal syllabics.
Pretty sure it’s not Arabic or Farsi–I can’t read either, but I saw enough of the script growing up to know the look of it.
It’s definitely Arabic script. I don’t read it either, but my best attempt at transcribing it is مرا?م كلـبك. Google Translate gives me “dog” for “كلـبك”, but going the other way I get “كلب”.
As someone with only a passing familiarity: Cherokee doesn’t string together symbols, nor does it have any individual ones wide/complex enough to be that thing on the right of the dot with the slanted underline.
Nope, not Cherokee. Cherokee is a lot less artistic. More circles.
Maybe “the mojo” works in the laws of the gate theory?
Ano bakayarou wa mada iru? chou dasai, ne!
Still there.
The nerdiness will go through the roof once they move on to Klingon and D’ni.
Oh god somone who remembers D’ni.
I don’t remember much of the language, but I could probably still read the numerals… iirc “kemo” is fish though. And ‘shorah’ is literally peace, but idiomatically is used as a greeting. Shorah b’shem’tee is literally “peace to y’all”, idiomatically “hi guys!” (though more formal). ‘eder’ is rest, when used for the name of an age implies a ‘garden’ age. Oh, and intensifiers were, while I don’t remember the actual words, literally translated as “to “, traditionally to 25 is the highest but in informal usage going beyond 25 was used as hyperbole.
… christ why do I remember all this?
The better question is why on earth wouldn’t you? I want to move to New Mexico just to set up my own version of Tomahnah…
damn we need someone who speaks arabic
thast said, maybe im just crazy, but i still cant ship tip with anyone but tigerlily. i mean i like him with artie, but, i will forever pine for that one crazy bitch who stole his heart
Shorah, Anderson .-)
“Shame on you” in Arabic.
Thank you. I think Tip is finally getting a little comeuppance anyway
Poor Tip. Even with a college degree, compared to them HE is the bimbo.
Even with a doctorate, he is the bimbo. Do we know if it’s an MD or a PsyD?
He’s always been referred to as a psychologist rather than a psychiatrist, so that’d be a Ph.D. (I don’t think they cover puppets in med school.)
Oy vey.
(TUNE: “I’m Walking”, Fats Domino)
We’re talking … in Chinese!
We’re yakking … in Portugese!
We’re mocking … your lack of tech degrees!
We’re gabbing … like Hindi folk!
We’re blabbing … a Farsi joke!
Confabbing … in ways you’ve never spoke!
Esperanto, French, and Russian too!
Gonna have a chat now, just us two!
Chatting in Korean, mocking you,
Like the nerds who talk in Urdu do!
In Burmese … you’re at a loss!
In Maltese … you’re feeling cross!
We’ll now tease … with breath like taco sauce!
Next thing you know, they’ll be punning in Spanish….
Rapping in Romani?
Speechifying in Sami?
Jawing in Javanese?
Jesting in Jem’Hadar?
The Jem’Hadar have no word for ‘jest’.
He’s saying “You’re terrible.” Haram is sinful, forbidden, bad. ‘Aleyk is “Upon you.” Sinfulness upon you, you are sinful. “You’re terrible.”
And I thought I’d never get any use out of my Arabic courses.
I like your translation, too.
And the winner of the Internet today is John.
Shame on you, like Josh said?
Nice choice- one of the few languages that’s notoriously harder to read than to speak….. I never learned Arabic, but I did try (and fail) to learn the related Urdu script once.
Thai is also very hard to read. It took the worst of Chinese and Hindu and combined them together.
Having helped those who had to pass the TOEFL (like my mother), I will say from their perspective, English is probably the most difficult language to master. It’s like it was created by a bunch of drunk Vikings. (Which it probably was.)
English is a language created by Norman soldiers trying to pick up the local barmaids, who spoke language created by Anglo Saxons trying to pick up the local barmaids, who spoke a language created by Roman soldiers trying to pick up the local barmaids, all influenced by Scots ans Welsh trying to pick up the local barmaids.
In addition, while many languages borrow words from other languages, English speakers follow speakers of other languages into dark alley to mug them and rifle through their pockets for words, grammar and sentence constructions.
James Nicholl first wrote that last part.
James Nicoll first wrote that part about the English language (not English speakers) mugging other languages (not other people) for words.
*applauds Ed*
Art [not Artie] comment for Shaenon: I always assumed that hatching at the edges of some characters was to indicate dark skin, while leaving most of the skin clear for expressiveness. You don’t need to do that now that you have color!
Yeah, but I don’t like the way Artie looks without a little shading. He’s got such a big face, he should have cheekbones.
Ooh, the exes are ganging up on him!
Nomi’s comment is an intereting one, but from the examples of hatching on both Tip and Virginia, it’s also being used to represent shading. So, a shaded area of Artie’s face would still get hatching, to show the direction of the light source if nothing else.
These last few strips have reinforced my belief that this gentleman [ http://humansofnewyork.tumblr.com/post/30876965775/im-a-mathematician-and-a-painter-and-this-is-a ] is Artie brought into the real world.
Maltese … cross…. I see what you did there.
That was a reply to eddurd’s filk, entered just after my reply that DID get posted in the proper place.
Sheesh.
People wonder why Tip only has one-night stands? This is why Tip only has one-night stands!
So, is Artie distracting Virginia so he can make her “disappear”? We did hear a few strips ago about a Gerbil Man being against Prop 39, and she’s got the brain machine to help make it happen. …I have no idea how Skin Horse could beat a post-human intellect, though. SO I suspect Anasigma will be involved in this kerfuffle too.
They can beat a post-human intellect through their greatest strength: sufficient oddity and bizarreness to make even Artie’s head hurt. ESPECIALLY make Artie’s head hurt.