MadDogMike posted:

Uh, well... hope the hill is a pretty place for a grave at least.

Begemot posted:

Of course he's already using the comic artist's trick for languages: just draw a bunch of weird symbols that don't mean anything in the word balloons.

Zernach posted:

Next Intra is going to dig a well, and THEN he brains the lord with the rock when he proclaims that the rock will now turn to food. Or turns the rock into air by throwing it so hard that it vaporises along with the lord.

habeasdorkus posted:

Yeah, I've definitely used the verb form. It's rare, but there are absolutely times where I've been buffaloed rather than trucked or mudholed. Plus, you can use buffalo in a non-physical sense, unlike the other two which (at least in my experience) involve getting physically overrun.

For those not familiar with this definition for truck & mudhole, I present Brandon Jacobs:
https://twitter.com/thenflgif/status/499271077403848704

MikeJF posted:

That's what we thought about paranatural.

Tulip posted:

Honestly? It is incredible bullshit that we have words whose pronunciation changes based on vowels that come later in the word. Like, for example, com/come, which isn't even the same as con/cone.

SneezeOfTheDecade posted:

I don't think you are either - I picked it up within a few seconds - but I considered "Ienobivccanle!" as a response and realized, looking at it, that even knowing what it was I was struggling to fit the letters in place.

ConfusedUs posted:

I'm 90% sure that this is because there's no way to tell if the first letter is a lower-case l or an upper-case I.

GunnerJ posted:

What if they do mean something though

A.o.D. posted:

Nonsense. In English we do not read words one letter or even one syllable at a time. The whole word or phrase is taken in at once, which is why very long words are not a feature of this particular Germanic language. When viewed in that light it's perfectly fine for a letter that appears later in the word to modify it, as in effect, you're comprehending it all at once.

Apologies. This was already covered.

A.o.D. posted:

It's actually that symbol at the upper right hand side of a qwerty keyboard that is used as a separator.

quote:

Lord Intra gathered his retainers, who were hungry for tutelage. “Lord Intra!” said the bearer of his kicks, “What is the first step on the path to Royalty?”

“There are no steps,” replied Intra, “It is zero-sum with your reality. It is not measured in court-lengths.”

“Lord Intra,” said his point guard, “Is the path to Royalty the path of struggle, then?”

“No,” said Intra, “One may attain it without any effort at all. It is, in fact, the antithesis of struggle.”

Intra’s shooting guard was very discontent with his master’s evasiveness. “Lord,” he said, “Allow us lowly men some small measure of understanding. For sympathy’s sake, and the sake of we good and loyal teammates, please tell us in plain language the nature of Royalty.”

“I will tell you precisely what Royalty is,” said Intra, “It is a continuous dunking motion.”

quote:

BALLER once played a pickup game with his disciple Hansa in BALLER's second clockwise glass court. Hansa was one of his most ardent students and a grand questioner of BALLER. Unlike BALLER's other disciple, Pree Ashma, he had no hunger in his heart for dominion of the universe, but a miserly scrutiny and a tight forward game. He was not an aspirant for royalty, and thereby attained it through little effort.

Hansa’s questions were thus:

‘Lord, how must I question space?’

‘With an age, a jammer may encircle a slammer five million times,’ spoke BALLER.

‘Lord, how then may I question time?’

‘A slammer's stride of a moment takes a jammer a week to surpass.’ BALLER spoke while dunking in the 4th way.

Hansa was discontent with this answer and bent to retie the laces of his sweet, catalogue only, kicks which he always kept with him and would eventually lead to his annihilation. Since he was royalty, he knew this, and wore them as a reminder of his circular death.

‘Lord, then which should I be, the slammer or the jammer?’

‘Both,’ spoke BALLER,’ or either, when it suits you. Destroy the grand enemy called ‘I’.’

Hansa contemplated this in silence. Later he would recount this proverb to his daughter.

Lemony posted:

Lord Intra gathered his retainers, who were hungry for tutelage. “Lord Intra!” said the bearer of his kicks, “What is the first step on the path to Royalty?”

“There are no steps,” replied Intra, “It is zero-sum with your reality. It is not measured in court-lengths.”

“Lord Intra,” said his point guard, “Is the path to Royalty the path of struggle, then?”

“No,” said Intra, “One may attain it without any effort at all. It is, in fact, the antithesis of struggle.”

Intra’s shooting guard was very discontent with his master’s evasiveness. “Lord,” he said, “Allow us lowly men some small measure of understanding. For sympathy’s sake, and the sake of we good and loyal teammates, please tell us in plain language the nature of Royalty.”

“I will tell you precisely what Royalty is,” said Intra, “It is a continuous dunking motion.”

Lemony posted:

BALLER once played a pickup game with his disciple Hansa in BALLER's second clockwise glass court. Hansa was one of his most ardent students and a grand questioner of BALLER. Unlike BALLER's other disciple, Pree Ashma, he had no hunger in his heart for dominion of the universe, but a miserly scrutiny and a tight forward game. He was not an aspirant for royalty, and thereby attained it through little effort.

Hansa’s questions were thus:

‘Lord, how must I question space?’

‘With an age, a jammer may encircle a slammer five million times,’ spoke BALLER.

‘Lord, how then may I question time?’

‘A slammer's stride of a moment takes a jammer a week to surpass.’ BALLER spoke while dunking in the 4th way.

Hansa was discontent with this answer and bent to retie the laces of his sweet, catalogue only, kicks which he always kept with him and would eventually lead to his annihilation. Since he was royalty, he knew this, and wore them as a reminder of his circular death.

‘Lord, then which should I be, the slammer or the jammer?’

‘Both,’ spoke BALLER,’ or either, when it suits you. Destroy the grand enemy called ‘I’.’

Hansa contemplated this in silence. Later he would recount this proverb to his daughter.

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GunnerJ posted:

What if they do mean something though

CitizenKeen posted:

Well, I'm going to use buffalo as a verb in casual or professional conversation by the end of the week.

I probably have the largest active vocabulary in my various personal circles, and while I don't have the largest passive vocabulary, it's pretty decent, and I have never, ever heard someone use buffalo as a verb. I will remedy this.

Brought To You By posted:

The sanctioned action is to DUNK.

Operant posted:

god drat

ThaumPenguin posted:

Dream-Incubus telling Allison about Ballami Dave:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hai8r6SGKV4

(it's a narrated version of the previous link)

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