[ SECRET POST #2596 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2596 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Star Trek: The Next Generation]


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03.
[The Croods]


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04.
[Elementary]


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05.
[Final Fantasy XIII]


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06.
[SCP Foundation]


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07.
[Philip Seymour Hoffman]


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08.
[Twin Peaks]


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09.
[Richard Armitage]


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10.
[Reign]


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11.
[The Hobbit]


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12.
[Hunger Games]


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13.
[Don't Hug Me I'm Scared]


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14.
[Teen Wolf]


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15.
[Panic! at The Disco/Dallon Weekes]















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Comments

Re: Pet Peeves No One Has But You

[tabaqui]

Language *is* interesting. :) I can't imagine switching between three languages (but how awesome to be able to do that). I'd love to know why the (seemingly) nonsensical English words were chosen in the docu that I saw.

"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
--James D. Nicoll

Terry Pratchett also used it, a little altered, in one of his books.

Re: Pet Peeves No One Has But You

[(Anonymous)]

Ayrt

Thanks for the full quote and attribution!

I'm curious, was there a common thread or something specific about which English words were used in the documentary, or how? Or was it more like different English words/phrases/sentences peppered in at random? (The latter is what I'm more used to hearing in my case -- unless the speaker's talking to me, then the English:Tagalog (or other dialect) ratios switch, of course, but usage of the other language usually persists.)

Re: Pet Peeves No One Has But You

[tabaqui]

You know, i have a terrible memory and it's been a while, but it seemed like it was just...random words. Nothing particularly tech-oriented or anything. Obviously, 'Google', stuff like that, but also things like...the man who ran the program was talking to a group of kids about how he had been sexually molested as a child, and how they should say, no, etc., and some of what he was saying he said in English.

And the kids used some English when talking to the local council/community organization about getting more public water pumps and again - no tech-oriented words, just...random words. I wish i could remember the docu, i'd link it. One of the boys in the group got to go speak at the UN, i think, or UNICEF...man, i just can't remember, it was last year.

Re: Pet Peeves No One Has But You

[(Anonymous)]

Ayrt

That sounds a lot like what I grew up hearing! My 2 cents, I think it's just people who feel at home with two or more languages used to conversing with the same. It's also kind of like people who've lived elsewhere with a different major language than their native tongue, and find themselves having trouble switching back back home.