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Title: My dorkdom just went up two points
Post by: kojabu on November 17, 2005, 08:22:05 AM: For my ling class we have to write a paper on some topic relating to linguistics (why we can't write about something else is beyond me). So for my paper I'm going to compare the Klingon and Vulcan languages and look at how the guy who made them up actually came up them. Stuff with syntax and morphology in there too.

*squee*
Title: My dorkdom just went up two points
Post by: Porter on November 17, 2005, 08:25:07 AM: Even geeks have to have somebody who is so geeky that they feel cool and normal in comparison.

Congrats --- you just became that person.
Title: My dorkdom just went up two points
Post by: kojabu on November 17, 2005, 08:26:43 AM: :D

Just doing my job.
Title: My dorkdom just went up two points
Post by: kojabu on November 17, 2005, 08:44:40 AM: I think the best part about this is this (http://www.kli.org/) and this (http://home.teleport.com/~vli/vlif.htm).

edit: I take that back. My favorite part is this (http://www.kli.org/stuff/Hamlet.html). Klingon Shakespeare.
Title: My dorkdom just went up two points
Post by: Porter on November 17, 2005, 08:47:10 AM: (http://www.brunching.com/images/geekchart2.gif)
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Post by: kojabu on November 17, 2005, 08:48:06 AM: Hey I don't speak it.... yet.
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Post by: Mr. Anderson on November 17, 2005, 09:05:53 AM: So to be as ungeeky as possible, we have to be published sci-fi authors?
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Post by: Porter on November 17, 2005, 09:15:09 AM: Just be none of the above.
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Post by: Jonathon on November 17, 2005, 10:51:10 AM: Beware. Klingon is a morphologically insane language. :fear:
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Post by: Brinestone on November 17, 2005, 11:07:11 AM: What if there was a published sf author who still liked Pokemon?
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Post by: sarcasticmuppet on November 17, 2005, 11:10:21 AM: What if there is a published SF author of erotic fuzzy things?
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Post by: Mr. Anderson on November 17, 2005, 11:10:29 AM: What if there was a published author who likes sci-fi pokemon games with subtitles?
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Post by: Porter on November 17, 2005, 11:12:12 AM: If he's under six, then I guess it's OK.
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Post by: Jonathon on November 17, 2005, 11:25:22 AM: I think it's cumulative. If you fit into multiple categories, it makes you geekier than people in one of those categories.
Title: My dorkdom just went up two points
Post by: kojabu on November 17, 2005, 12:06:05 PM: Quote
Beware. Klingon is a morphologically insane language. :fear:
*brain perks*

Do you know stuff about this?
Title: My dorkdom just went up two points
Post by: Porter on November 17, 2005, 12:24:22 PM: Notice that the graph doesn't show who is geekier than whom. I just describes which groups think that they are less geeky than which other groups.

For example, Pokemon fans and 13-year-old gamers both think that they are less geeky than each other.
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Post by: pooka on November 17, 2005, 03:07:03 PM: Pfft. Linguists aren't even on there.

Let's see, though. I couldn't find who devised the Vulcan language on their site.
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Post by: sarcasticmuppet on November 17, 2005, 04:06:57 PM: dude, 13-year olds probably consider themselves less geeky than everyone. Who cares what they think?
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Post by: kojabu on November 17, 2005, 05:11:36 PM: Quote
Pfft. Linguists aren't even on there.

Let's see, though. I couldn't find who devised the Vulcan language on their site.
Mark R. Gardner, it's at the end of the first page, he "signs" the letter to the viewers as the Founder