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The "ask Sushipunk a question" thread (pg. 114)
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| Sushipunk |
| quote: | Originally posted by shaw
Shouldn't haziel know how to spell ceviche? |
Yes.
| quote: | Originally posted by djhaziel
is shaw mexican ? |
No.
| quote: | Originally posted by EgosXII
Are your answers more accurate than those offered by a magic 8 ball? |
It is decidedly so.
| quote: | Originally posted by shaw
is haziel gringo? |
Yes.
| quote: | Originally posted by Ygrene
Will the questions ever cease? |
Nope.
| quote: | Originally posted by djhaziel
how many more ing times will shaw change his avatar? |
As many times as there are TA errors. |
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| Ygrene |
| Did this post get results? |
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| Sushipunk |
| quote: | Originally posted by shaw
On a scale of 1-10, how much do I look like each of my two avatars? |
11. |
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| Sushipunk |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ygrene
Did this post get results? |
It did. |
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| djhaziel |
| Shaw I really don't know what you look like but something tells me you run somewhere across brad pitt and webster . |
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| shaw |
| quote: | Originally posted by djhaziel
Shaw I really don't know what you like look but something tells me you run somewhere across brad pitt and webster . |
I actually look quite a bit like that other one (aside from the hair). Greatest pianist ever + looked like me. Hence, use.
On the other hand, I am also black and own a baseball world hat. Hence, the other. |
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| Fledz |
| quote: | Originally posted by EgosXII
what would be your last meal if you were on death row, and ANYTHING was available (except all you can eat)? |
Vagina
....all you can eat :gsmile: |
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| djhaziel |
| Should TA learn how to speak in BIRD? |
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| Sushipunk |
| quote: | Originally posted by djhaziel
Should TA learn how to speak in BIRD? |
Yes. But it's a tricky language, with lots of dialectic slang :p |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by Sushipunk
Yes. But it's a tricky language, with lots of dialectic slang :p |
Given their brains, I'm sure it's not as complex as we take it to be. Probably the reason why we can't "get it" is because we aren't birds ourselves :p |
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| Sushipunk |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
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Given their brains, I'm sure it's not as complex as we take it to be. Probably the reason why we can't "get it" is because we aren't birds ourselves :p |
Oh yeah, absolutely. I have no illusions that their vocabulary is anything like that of a human language.
What I do find interesting though, is that the same types of birds will sound very, very different in different locations. We have tame Grey Butcherbirds here, for example, and we know the sounds they make quite well, since they're here quite a bit. But when we travel up to Fraser Island (about 300km north) they sound completely different. Some similar sounds here and there (alarm calls, angry sounds) but for the most part it's like a different language. I always find it fascinating :p |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by Sushipunk
it's like a different language. I always find it fascinating :p |
Actually, that's because it is :D
That's exactly how human languages branch off from one another. Well, I don't even need to come up with an abstract example: Brits probably noticed you were not from their neck of woods when you were in the UK, and Australia was colonised not long ago; had mass communication not been invented, I'm sure Australians would speak a language intelligible to Brits and Americans alike in a couple of centuries...
... which is sort of what's already happened :p |
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