Chat Thread 41: Mod Maker

Post by **ArcWolf** » Sun Aug 17, 2014 10:26 am

Fun fact! In Spanish name for the character "I" is (roughly) pronounced
"ee" while the character "E" is (roughly) pronounced "eh".

This confused me to no end as a child.

Silly Zealot · Post by **Silly Zealot** » Sun Aug 17, 2014 2:37 pm

Obbl wrote:Silly, while I agree that "o as in pork" is a fairly good example, and I'd even give you "e as in pen" as pretty close: the rest are rather different.
Try:
A as in "Father"
E as something between "Café" and "Pen"
I as the E's "Feet"
O as in "Bone"
U as the O's in "Food"

I'm talking american English pronunciation here, which more similar to Spanish by comparison to all other English accents.
And isn't "bone" pronounced "bawn"?

I don't know why old English translator translated the Spanish "J" as an "X", although I believe it because writing "Quihote" or "Havier" looked wrong... and because they didn't really care about foreign names.

Sun Aug 17, 2014 9:15 pm

Silly Zealot wrote: And isn't "bone" pronounced "bawn"?

no, bone rhymes with zone, tone, own, and phone.

Post by **Obbl** » Sun Aug 17, 2014 10:31 pm

Silly Zealot wrote:I don't know why old English translator translated the Spanish "J" as an "X", although I believe it because writing "Quihote" or "Havier" looked wrong... and because they didn't really care about foreign names.

It's because his name is from the old Castilian where "Quixote" would have been pronounced like "Quishote" (using the English "SH"). Over time the pronunciation became assimilated with the Spanish J, so in modern times the name has officially become "Quijote" in Spanish Speaking countries. Basically it's kind of like how Mexico is still written "Mexico" and not "Mejico" for historical reasons.

herobrineharry · Post by **herobrineharry** » Sun Aug 17, 2014 11:37 pm

In Latin, the word order is subject/object/verb, and you determine meaning based on word endings. However, the rules governing these endings are, although very consistent if considered alone, vary extremely from declension to declension.

Post by **Sleet** » Mon Aug 18, 2014 2:08 pm

What's especially confusing (but is English's fault, not Spanish's), is the word "quixotic." "Quick-SOTT-ick." Now suddenly the X is pronounced differently.

Going even weirder with the X is "Mexico." MECK-sick-oh is English-speakers mispronouncing the mispronunciation done by Spanish-speakers. With the X pronounced like it is in Spanish, it's "MAY-he-ko." Except that's wrong too. It's actually "MAY-she-ko." Native Central Americans, yo.

Silly Zealot · Post by **Silly Zealot** » Wed Aug 20, 2014 12:53 am

Sleet wrote:With the X pronounced like it is in Spanish, it's "MAY-he-ko."

Meh-hee-koh.

Deske · Post by **Deske** » Wed Aug 20, 2014 12:59 am

Sleet, you're adding in other letters that change the sound. X in Quixotic and Mexico still go "ks", it's the "ot" and "ic" added after the letters that make them sound different.

Post by **Obbl** » Wed Aug 20, 2014 2:25 am

Um... Deske, Sleet is pointing out this incongruity:
Quixote (Kee-ho-tay) - x = h
Quixotic (Quik-sot-ick) - x = ks
The sound of the X is different in these words because... English.

Also that in English "Mexico" is pronounce Mek-sick-oh (x = ks), which is the English-ified pronunciation of the Spanish Meh-hee-koh (x = h), which is the Spanish-ified pronunciation of the original Central American Meh-she-koh (x = sh).

Saturn381 · Post by **Saturn381** » Thu Aug 21, 2014 1:35 am

Just recently there has been some rumor about a "leak" that shows new screenshots and information about Super Smash Bros.
http://playeressence.com/rumor-leaked-s ... -and-more/

Now this topic isn't about the "leak", but rather a certain character in this "leak". The Duck Hunt dog.

If he is actually in the game, how do you think he would play out?

Jacey · Post by **Jacey** » Thu Aug 21, 2014 3:53 am

By once again tormenting us with his laughter. and sending ducks to do his bidding

Kyuunado · Post by **Kyuunado** » Thu Aug 21, 2014 4:44 am

Are you talking about the dog or Sakurai?

Jacey · Post by **Jacey** » Thu Aug 21, 2014 5:50 am

what sounds more terrifying?
(I meant the dog.)

It is to bad that they can't get microsoft characters and bring banjoy kazooie into the fight

herobrineharry · Post by **herobrineharry** » Thu Aug 21, 2014 3:44 pm

If they could get Microsoft characters, I would play Clippy.

Silly Zealot · Post by **Silly Zealot** » Thu Aug 21, 2014 4:47 pm

herobrineharry wrote:If they could get Microsoft characters, I would play Clippy.

"It appears I've beated you up, do you need help getting back up?
TOO BAD! HAHAHAHA!"

Jacey · Post by **Jacey** » Thu Aug 21, 2014 6:28 pm

Silly Zealot wrote:
herobrineharry wrote:If they could get Microsoft characters, I would play Clippy.

"It appears I've beated you up, do you need help getting back up?
TOO BAD! HAHAHAHA!"

haha, good one

Mickey the Luxray · Post by **Mickey the Luxray** » Thu Aug 21, 2014 10:23 pm

herobrineharry wrote:If they could get Microsoft characters, I would play Clippy.

His Final Smash would be several waves of help messages flying across the screen.

Make it happen, Sakurai

Jacey · Post by **Jacey** » Thu Aug 21, 2014 10:27 pm

Mickey the Luxray wrote:
herobrineharry wrote:If they could get Microsoft characters, I would play Clippy.

His Final Smash would be several waves of help messages flying across the screen.

Make it happen, Sakurai

Dont forget, clippy could transform (I remember him becoming a ball)

deepskycyan · Post by **deepskycyan** » Fri Aug 22, 2014 11:50 am

Also a bicycle, if I recall correctly.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Fri Aug 22, 2014 3:41 pm

Whenever I think of Clippy, I think of Stewie cursing him out from that "Family Guy" episode.

herobrineharry · Post by **herobrineharry** » Fri Aug 22, 2014 7:23 pm

I AM CLIPPY
DO YOU NEED HELP WITH THAT?

Seth · Post by **Seth** » Fri Aug 22, 2014 8:00 pm

I for one find clippy a tragic figure. He just wants to help man.....

Kitela · Post by **Kitela** » Sat Aug 23, 2014 1:30 am

Clippy provided useless help, but still was never forgotten.
That right there says something.

Post by **Sleet** » Sat Aug 23, 2014 10:37 am

Clippy was my only friend growing up. He was the only person who cared about me and would talk to me.

Okay not really.

VEB152 · Post by **VEB152** » Sat Aug 23, 2014 10:46 am

Now that starts to sound like a plot for a bad melodrama

Jacey · Post by **Jacey** » Sat Aug 23, 2014 12:34 pm

Sleet wrote:Clippy was my only friend growing up. He was the only person who cared about me and would talk to me.

Okay not really.

I used one of the other helpers, I think the dog.
I ignored clippy

herobrineharry · Post by **herobrineharry** » Sat Aug 23, 2014 4:23 pm

NO ONE IGNORES THE CLIPPY
FEAR HIS MILDLY IRRATATING WRATH

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Sat Aug 23, 2014 7:23 pm

I'll turn Clippy into a balloon animal just like those clowns you see.

Post by **Render** » Sun Aug 24, 2014 12:09 pm

Drake wrote:I used one of the other helpers, I think the dog.

Same here, I also used the dog.

Post by **Sleet** » Sun Aug 24, 2014 3:51 pm

Yeah I mixed it up. The others were more interesting.

I also would spam "animate" just to see what would happen. Clearly I had too much free time as a kit.

Post by **ArcWolf** » Sun Aug 24, 2014 6:37 pm

VEB152 wrote:Now that starts to sound like a plot for a bad melodrama

"No Clippy! I'm not trying to write an email. I'm trying to say I love you!"

herobrineharry · Post by **herobrineharry** » Sun Aug 24, 2014 8:46 pm

Has anyone seen anyone cameos from other comics in HP?

Silly Zealot · Post by **Silly Zealot** » Mon Aug 25, 2014 12:48 am

Kitela wrote:Clippy provided useless help, but still was never forgotten.
That right there says something.

That awkward moment... when you realize Clippy is more famous than you.

Post by **Hlaoroo** » Mon Aug 25, 2014 5:03 am

Clippy is more famous than anyone.
Apple never came up with anything as good as Clippy. Suri and autocorrect just aren't the same.

herobrineharry wrote:Has anyone seen anyone cameos from other comics in HP?

There haven't been cameos as such as far as I'm aware but there is the odd reference to other cartoons like "Road Rovers". Again that's probably something best discussed in the comic section though as this section of the forums is intended for non-comic related shenanigans.

Kateleo007 · Post by **Kateleo007** » Mon Aug 25, 2014 3:30 pm

By the time my family got a computer, I'm pretty sure clippy was phased out. Idk, it was about 8 years ago.

Kyuunado · Post by **Kyuunado** » Tue Aug 26, 2014 1:27 am

Clippy is still on our local schools computers. What's worse is that the teachers play around with it more than the students do.

Post by **Hlaoroo** » Tue Aug 26, 2014 4:50 am

Sepaking of teachers playing on computers...
The computers in the computer labs at my high school had a function to let the teacher view and control any student's screen from their own computer.
One day, one of the teachers (who happened to be much loved by the class) was bored and decided to do a prank. He picked the girl sitting next to me and from his computer deleted the short title she'd just written and wrote "I AM SOO STUPID!" in its place. The girl freaked out thinking her computer was possessed!

She thought it was hilarious when she realised who the real poltergeist was though.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Tue Aug 26, 2014 2:39 pm

That would definitely freak me out if a teacher did that to me.

Silly Zealot · Post by **Silly Zealot** » Wed Aug 27, 2014 2:27 pm

Hlaoroo wrote:She thought it was hilarious when she realised who the real poltergeist was though.

Yes, it was Peeves.

herobrineharry · Post by **herobrineharry** » Wed Aug 27, 2014 8:07 pm

Waddiwasi!
If that fails, fork bomb!