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Total Members Voted: 20

[Greiger]

Indeed. We could just use face language for military operations.  Hand signals are too easy to intercept.

= Oh armok my legs! Where are my legs!?
= Ok enemy contact 10 meters Urist I want you to go round back and... while Bromek..... and Bill....
= We win!
= We lose!
= War.  War never changes.

[WaffleEggnog]

Indeed. We could just use face language for military operations.  Hand signals are too easy to intercept.

= Oh armok my legs! Where are my legs!?
= Ok enemy contact 10 meters Urist I want you to go round back and... while Bromek..... and Bill....
= We win!
= We lose!
= War.  War never changes.

Wait wait wait wait....... it needs more references.

[acetech09]

We need to hire rowan atkinson.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRjUQpTBCSc&feature=player_detailpage#t=381s

[acetech09]

I linked it to the timestamp I'm talking about.

[WaffleEggnog]

We need to hire rowan atkinson.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRjUQpTBCSc&feature=player_detailpage#t=381s

UMG its MR.BEAN

[GreatWyrmGold]

I think german is a proper dwarfy language. Especially if you really roll the R's.

Of course, thet would make us all sound like Hitler.

All Germans are not Hitler! I should know, I'm approximately half-German!

Wait, we are WORSE than Hitler?


New objective, revive Hitler and have him be our janitor.

We'll need to describe it as "the punishment he could not get in life," of course, or else we look like monsters. As head of P.E.A.C.E, you should know that.

That, or have all colonists take a mandatory vow of silence, and attempt to communicate with one another solely by facial expressions.

What in the case of emergency? If we get attacked I doubt we'll be able to warn other colonies about it with our face over the phone.

Edit: I vote we use german.

In seriousness, I advise English. Everyone here speaks it fairly well, but not everyone can so much as manage "Nein sprechenze Duetch!" Which means something like "No speak German!", for those of you who speak less German than I do.

Dwarves have Scottish accents, right? What about Scottish? Though Dwarves are originaly from German mythology, and German sound more dwarfy....

Scots speak English, so...sure. (In case it matters, part of my non-German blood is Scottish. I'm a regular American mutt, kind of.)

German all the way, but i also believe we must develop some sort of code for our documents, Prehaps a mix of the languages from DF, except for elvish.

No, we must use PURE elvish. They will never expect that we use elvish.

I hate you so much right now.

That's why they'll never suspect it!

How will we speak to many at once? It would be terribly confusing to turn around, make a face, turn around again, make a face, turn BACK, make a face, go into a room and make a face, come back. It would be near-impossible to speak to many people at once. And in a workplace this would be terrible.

Can we just scrap the idea of face lauguage? We have vocal cords for a reason.

This. seriously, monkies use vocal language, birds use vocal language, bugs do, frogs do, fish vocalize...

[WaffleEggnog]

Dwarves have Scottish accents, right? What about Scottish? Though Dwarves are originaly from German mythology, and German sound more dwarfy....

Scots speak English, so...sure. (In case it matters, part of my non-German blood is Scottish. I'm a regular American mutt, kind of.)

Finally! Someone replied! I can finally re *cough* oh sorry about that.

anyway, I know Scottish people speak English. No, the thing is, they currently speak English, but, with our combined effort, we can make a Scottish lauguage, and spead it to the scots, so that we can use it as Scottish! Its brilliant! BRILLIANT!

I suggest some of you guys reaserch Esperanto, for some valuble info on made-up lauguages that we can copy exploit it for our new lauguage!.

[King DZA]

How will we speak to many at once? It would be terribly confusing to turn around, make a face, turn around again, make a face, turn BACK, make a face, go into a room and make a face, come back. It would be near-impossible to speak to many people at once. And in a workplace this would be terrible.

I'm not quite sure how that would be any more difficult than turning around, saying something, turning back, saying something, turning around again, saying something, going into a room, saying something, ect.

If you have a need to convey information to several people at once, it would probably be easier to just call for a meeting/assembly, or communicate via display screens instead of running around everywhere, whether you're using a spoken language or not. Speaking to a specific individual in a group would just be a matter of making eye contact.

Now then, someone get ahold of Rowan Atkinson and ask him how he'd feel about taking a trip to another planet.

EDIT:

Actually, I have a better idea:

Instead of spoken languages or facial expressions, let us instead focus our efforts on unlocking the secrets of telepathy.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Dwarves have Scottish accents, right? What about Scottish? Though Dwarves are originaly from German mythology, and German sound more dwarfy....

Scots speak English, so...sure. (In case it matters, part of my non-German blood is Scottish. I'm a regular American mutt, kind of.)

Finally! Someone replied! I can finally re *cough* oh sorry about that.

anyway, I know Scottish people speak English. No, the thing is, they currently speak English, but, with our combined effort, we can make a Scottish lauguage, and spead it to the scots, so that we can use it as Scottish! Its brilliant! BRILLIANT!

As a kinda-Scottish-American, I thouroughly disapprove of this action! If you were an American-Scot (with some, erm, whatever country is to the U.K. as Germany is to the U.S, I guess), what would you think if some dumb Scot on the internet suggested making an American language? You'd think they were NUTS!

How will we speak to many at once? It would be terribly confusing to turn around, make a face, turn around again, make a face, turn BACK, make a face, go into a room and make a face, come back. It would be near-impossible to speak to many people at once. And in a workplace this would be terrible.

I'm not quite sure how that would be any more difficult than turning around, saying something, turning back, saying something, turning around again, saying something, going into a room, saying something, ect.

If you have a need to convey information to several people at once, it would probably be easier to just call for a meeting/assembly, or communicate via display screens instead of running around everywhere, whether you're using a spoken language or not. Speaking to a specific individual in a group would just be a matter of making eye contact.

Now then, someone get ahold of Rowan Atkinson and ask him how he'd feel about taking a trip to another planet.

Speaking from experience, it's a lot easier to speak to someone not staring you in the face or in another room than it would be to facially-express. Not to mention that facial expressions are not nearly as expressive or self-controlled as vocal sounds...or the nightmares autistic/Asbergers people (such as yours truly) would face.

EDIT:

Actually, I have a better idea:

Instead of spoken languages or facial expressions, let us instead focus our efforts on unlocking the secrets of telepathy.

I have only slightly more faith in that idea than in soul-power...but if you succeed, we'll use that. It's probably FTL and uninterceptable

[Hanslanda]

I believe that telepathy would not be faster than light. But other than that, yeah, I agree. Unless earth develops telepathy too, in which case we'd have a mind-arms-war on our hands.

[Helgoland]

Okay, new idea: We will genetically engineer ourselves to have our vocal chords in our foreheads. The we will use our vocal chords to communicate by facial expressions.

I think german is a proper dwarfy language. Especially if you really roll the R's.

Of course, thet would make us all sound like Hitler.

All Germans are not Hitler! I should know, I'm approximately half-German!

I was talking about Bay12, the only forum that makes it a fine point that they're not as evil as, but mmore evil than Hitler.
Have I mentioned I love you guys?

Wait, we are WORSE than Hitler?


New objective, revive Hitler and have him be our janitor.

"Who's that?"
"I'm Adolf. The janitor."

New objective: Make Hitler/Futurama crossover jokes.

[brainfreez]

hey , we could use German language , call ourselves the NASI   (National Astronaut Space Invaders) and go take over the universe !
 
there is no way we can fail in my plan .

also as a greetings we will say "Heil , brainfreez!" .

[Nyan Thousand]

Wait, if we're going all Hitler, then we have to do it right. We need Hugo Boss uniforms, for one. We're also going to need more Zyklon B. Also we should be International Socialists (because we come from many countries, i.e., international, and we like socialising, so socialists. That's what socialism means, right?), or simply Internazis.

We're Internazis, guys.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Seriously, no Third Reich. That'll get wannabe heroes AND world governments on our backs faster than soul power would! We just can't handle that kind of attention; there's only about a few thousand of us. That means the Terrans will outnumber us a couple billion to one...and they also have nukes.

[brainfreez]

we will have zylkon b .