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Post by **Mikey** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 12:19 am

J'allez la biblioteque avec des pommes frites et des haricots verts.

Yes, I know what that means; but people who don't speak French think it sounds awesome.

And yeah, my conjugation was very probably wrong. I really was just making a bit of a joke. I don't care too much how correct it is.

Now, per your suggestion, "devil chicken" may make for a good name...

Jordanis · Post by **Jordanis** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 12:38 am

Mikey wrote:J'allez la biblioteque avec des pommes frites et des haricots verts.

Yes, I know what that means; but people who don't speak French think it sounds awesome.

And yeah, my conjugation was very probably wrong. I really was just making a bit of a joke. I don't care too much how correct it is.

Now, per your suggestion, "devil chicken" may make for a good name...

Should try 'Devil Chicken' in latin. Latin is the gold standard for making silly things sound cool.

Also, what does 'I go the library' mean?

Aside from using the second person plural conjugation instead of the first person singular...

Jabber Swarky · Post by **Jabber Swarky** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 1:05 am

Hehe, i liked it. Sounds kinda cool, what with the diablo bit, and spanish is automatically sexy.. and the chicken bit puts a dampner on it =P

besides, i doubt that people out on the outer ring on a border between pretty much every alien's territory are going to speak Spanish, let along English. Thats something ive allways thought about.. humans have English and French and German and Spanish.. are there other languages for the Klingon people, for example, other than the one they use on the show?

Post by **Mikey** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 1:33 am

My Latin is admittedly rusty, but I believe it would "pullus diabolus."

And the phrase means "I go to the library with French fries and green beans." There's no hidden meaning; it's as nonsensical as it sounds. But people who don't speak French think it sounds really cool when spoken.

Jordanis · Post by **Jordanis** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 1:58 am

Mikey wrote:My Latin is admittedly rusty, but I believe it would "pullus diabolus."

And the phrase means "I go to the library with French fries and green beans." There's no hidden meaning; it's as nonsensical as it sounds. But people who don't speak French think it sounds really cool when spoken.

My point was that you were missing the 'Ã ' which is 'to', so what you wrote was 'I go the library' with a bad conjugation. 'Je vais Ã la bibliothÃ¨que' is correct.

Sorry, I know this is irrelevant, but I started learning French a few months after turning three. Seeing that kind of grammatical mistake is as automatic in French as it is in English.

Post by **Mikey** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 2:20 am

OK.

But what should we call the ship?

Jordanis · Post by **Jordanis** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 2:31 am

Pedant's Pride

Blackstar the Chakat · Sun Jan 20, 2008 2:38 am

Jordanis wrote:Pedant's Pride

That's a joke right?

Jordanis · Post by **Jordanis** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 5:17 am

Yes, it's a joke. It seemed like a good one given the forum and the discussion that had just happened.

Blackstar the Chakat · Sun Jan 20, 2008 12:57 pm

And anything with Chicken should be discarded. Chickens don't even fly.

Could people make a list of all their serious suggestions? Then I'll take a look through them and decide.

Post by **Mikey** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 1:59 pm

Chickens don't even fly.

Exactly! It wouldn't be ironic if we used a bird that really could fly.

In all seriousness, though, perhaps a mythological figure? Aias, Siegfried, Horus, or something like that?

Reliant121 · Post by **Reliant121** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 2:00 pm

What like the Valkyrie?

Post by **Mikey** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 2:03 pm

I like to consider things a little bit more obscure, but in that vein, how about the Brynhilde?

Reliant121 · Post by **Reliant121** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 2:06 pm

A famous Valkyrie. That would work. Although the name isn't elegant, it is simple and relatively unique.

Post by **Mikey** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 2:10 pm

Well, I'm not sure how the name was rendered in the Icelandic of the Eddas. Maybe there's a prettier-sopunding version of it. Any amateur Teutonic/Scandinavian mythologists out there?