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 Post subject: Re: Other Creativity
PostPosted: Thu 25 Nov 2010, 04:15 
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Pe King wrote:
So will biased commentaries made in a humorous lay out be accepted?

Maybe if it was humourous...

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 Post subject: Re: Other Creativity
PostPosted: Thu 25 Nov 2010, 06:03 
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Careful Thakowsaizmu Pe King's definition could be very different from yours. Take Micamo's advice, think about what you say.

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 Post subject: Re: Other Creativity
PostPosted: Thu 25 Nov 2010, 06:05 
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If you are not perceived as humourous to those that you are presenting your humour, then it is not considered humourous, is it? He's tried to share his "humour" and it is decidedly unfunny.

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 Post subject: Re: Other Creativity
PostPosted: Thu 25 Nov 2010, 06:12 
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That leaves one question. What is your version of humor? Every time I use Humour the spell check calls it wrong. Also
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Most words ending in an unstressed -our in British English (e.g., colour, flavour, honour, neighbour, rumour, labour, humour) end in -or in American English (e.g., color, flavor, honor, neighbor, rumor, labor, humor). Wherever the vowel is unreduced in pronunciation, this does not occur: contour, velour, paramour, troubadour, are spelt thus the same everywhere. Most words of this category derive from Latin non-agent nouns having nominative -or; the first such borrowings into English were from early Old French and the ending was -or or -ur.[30] After the Norman Conquest, the ending became -our in Anglo-French in an attempt to represent the Old French pronunciation of words ending in -or[31], though color has been used occasionally in English since the 15th century.[32] The -our ending was not only retained in English borrowings from Anglo-French, but also applied to earlier French borrowings

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 Post subject: Re: Other Creativity
PostPosted: Thu 25 Nov 2010, 06:14 
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Spell check is not always correct. And kudos to you for learning how to read something that is peer edited. What does it say about the word aëroplane? Bet it marks that one wrong as well, but it isn't necessarily.

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 Post subject: Re: Other Creativity
PostPosted: Thu 25 Nov 2010, 06:27 
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Debate team is fun. Always have a evidence to back your position. To go into a discussion unprepared like a certain someone is foolish and often leads to someone's toes being stepped on.
@Pe King: Think before you speak. To you I quote, "Opinions are like armpits. Everyone has them and they usually stink."

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 Post subject: Re: Other Creativity
PostPosted: Thu 25 Nov 2010, 06:37 
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KiKi Tampusa wrote:
Debate team is fun. Always have a evidence to back your position. To go into a discussion unprepared like a certain someone is foolish and often leads to someone's toes being stepped on.

We aren't debating anything. English has a funny way of having many ways to spell things. It is a very olde language, after all, and the orthography is fairly new. Though some of the conventions I use are no longer the popular conventions, they are still valid. Take a look at any book written before the 1940s, the conventions are different. Take a look at some of the books from the 1500s and 1600s.

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 Post subject: Re: Other Creativity
PostPosted: Thu 25 Nov 2010, 06:41 
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Well you got Batgirl earlier so here is bikini.
Imagine she's a red head and you've got bat girl in a bikini.

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 Post subject: Re: Other Creativity
PostPosted: Thu 25 Nov 2010, 06:43 
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She should have her mask on!

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 Post subject: Re: Other Creativity
PostPosted: Thu 25 Nov 2010, 06:47 
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Use your imagination! :P

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 Post subject: Re: Other Creativity
PostPosted: Thu 25 Nov 2010, 06:50 
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Hehe, alright.

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 Post subject: Re: Other Creativity
PostPosted: Thu 25 Nov 2010, 06:52 
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Thakowsaizmu wrote:
We aren't debating anything. English has a funny way of having many ways to spell things.
I was defending my spelling. A trait that comes from debate team. I too agree English does have a funny way of spelling things /jewels/, /joules/ and /Jules/.

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 Post subject: Re: Other Creativity
PostPosted: Thu 25 Nov 2010, 06:54 
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KiKi Tampusa wrote:
Thakowsaizmu wrote:
We aren't debating anything. English has a funny way of having many ways to spell things.
I was defending my spelling. A trait that comes from debate team. I too agree English does have a funny way of spelling things /jewels/, /joules/ and /Jules/.

Your spelling wasn't on trial.

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 Post subject: Re: Other Creativity
PostPosted: Thu 25 Nov 2010, 06:54 
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KiKi Tampusa wrote:
I was defending my spelling. A trait that comes from debate team. I too agree English does have a funny way of spelling things /jewels/, /joules/ and /Jules/.


Usually, orthography is enclosed in angle brackets <laik sow>, while forward slashes are reserved for /f@"nEtIk no"teIS@n/.

EDIT: Pardon me. I erred. Forward slashes / / are for phonemic notation, brackets [ ] are for phonetic.

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 Post subject: Re: Other Creativity
PostPosted: Thu 25 Nov 2010, 06:55 
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Thank you.

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 Post subject: Re: Other Creativity
PostPosted: Thu 25 Nov 2010, 11:49 
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Batgirl in bikini = win.

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 Post subject: Re: Other Creativity
PostPosted: Thu 25 Nov 2010, 15:56 
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Here is some very small part of my story and some additional explanations I translated for Khagan over a year ago:
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Yesterday -- actually today some time after midnight -- I tried to translate a very small part of my story. It is somewhat representative of the text's general atmosphere at least of the first part of that story. It is at the end of the middle third of that first part. The scene takes place in some kind of wood or very naturalistic forest up to now called the Demon's sylvan, which is located in the Highland. I maybe will change the name of that forest. (I hope I have applied the term 'sylvan' correctly.) It took me about one and a half hour to translate this few lines:

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In the dim grey light of early morning

The next morning, the witch woke up early. Tanni and Ledy were still sleeping. But the Caty was already awoke, so she laid her sleeping blanket over her shoulders and took him out of his bark bed. He clinged to her tightly and cuddled up to her left side below the wings built by the blanket. Then the witch took a seat besides the entrence of the tree cave. So they sat snuggled up together in the cold in the pale, grey light of early morning.


This is the whole chapter up to now. The title comes form a title or a line of a text in our English textbook. It is one of the few good memories from the school I attended then. But of course, the story in the textbook was quite different.

Not every blanket is a sleeping blanket. I don't know if such a term exists in English. In my native tongue, building up composita form e. g. sleep and blanket to derive a word for a subclass of things is quite easy. This special kind of heavy and worm blankets are the most precious property one could have in this witch-based culture. I tried to be as close as possible to the original text, but had to change the original general term for a place where you lay down for a rest or for sleeping in e.g. a camp (the later also could be refered to with that special term) to 'bark bed', because the translation my dictionary offers would be a little misleading. The bed is actually a peace of bark form a tree, which is not mentioned in this chapter, but in one of the previous. But the internet offers me 'bed' in the sense of 'makeshift bed', which also is not that what I intended. Yes, these bed is provisorily, but it fits well for the Caty. And as the Caty never slept in a bed like ours, for him this bed is wonderful. So it's quite difficult to translate an ambiguous word of my native tongue to a likewise ambiguous term in English. There are cold, coldness and chilliness. I took 'cold' because according to my dictionary, it deals with temperature. The others maybe have some other connotations. Pale and grey are in a list in my translation, in the original text it is one composit word denoting some shade of grey.

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 Post subject: Re: Other Creativity
PostPosted: Thu 25 Nov 2010, 21:55 
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I am very much into typography and such. (just look at my avatar, that's an ambigram). Most of my creativity is lead through FontStruct, here: http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructors/cmunk

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 Post subject: Re: Other Creativity
PostPosted: Thu 25 Nov 2010, 22:44 
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CMunk wrote:
I am very much into typography and such. (just look at my avatar, that's an ambigram). Most of my creativity is lead through FontStruct, here: http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructors/cmunk

I was there, but I've only created some fonts for conscripts.

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What do you think about my ambigram?

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 Post subject: Re: Other Creativity
PostPosted: Thu 25 Nov 2010, 22:50 
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CMunk wrote:
I am very much into typography and such. (just look at my avatar, that's an ambigram). Most of my creativity is lead through FontStruct, here: http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructors/cmunk


For some reason I never noticed, and yet I have a soft spot for ambigrams.

Nice fonts!

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