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Come on'n get your jamaharon on! There are no real rules—just don't break the weather control network.

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[–] [email protected] 145 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not gonna lie. I’d watch a Star Trek romantic comedy called Klingon To You.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It would probably be called "Glory to you"

... and your houussse! Sorry, I just cannot say one without the other.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You have to do the Gowron eyes too though!

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

When I close my eyes.... I can still see his

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

👀aaand your hoooouuuussseee!

(eh)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Only because you value keeping your eyes in their sockets.

[–] [email protected] 105 points 1 year ago (1 children)

French and Portuguese at the convention, their arms open.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago

Love, when the convention ended

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (25 children)

Is there a source for this. I need this to be true!

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Alas, it is not http://klingon.wiki/En/Anecdotes

There was an animated tv show that had this as a plot line, where an american man met a woman from japan. I can’t remember what show it was, though. Its a memory barely visible in the back of my brain.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It does happen among Esperanto speakers; parents whose common language is Esperanto is a major source of what few native speakers there are.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That link 404s

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If one was from France and the other was from Portugal, they missed an opportunity to meet in the middle and speak Andorian/Andorran. He could still read her poetry but without all the ducking involved in Klingon courtship.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

but without all the ducking involved in Klingon courtship.

Without all the fun? No thanks!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

(the language of Andorra is Catalan)

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I wish i could learn languages in a few months

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can. Step 1 find a group that welcomes non language speakers. I used mmos to try. Can also just have 1 person. But I find guilds better since you get more exposure. Step 2 ignore grammar and just caveman it. Why many word when few work. Then when you no longer need google translate to understand and to talk learn grammar. Language is a tool for communication so focus on being understood before proper sentence and conjugation.

[–] GregoryTheGreat 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah I live with someone who speaks another language. Shit isn’t easy and take longer than a few months.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It depends on what your goal is. If its simply to communicate it does not have to take that long sure it will be very broken

Me hungry me eat instead of I eat when I am hungry but as long as you get the message across you have succeded with communicating.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

I tried to learn English for years. At school, and then outside school, but I couldn't make any serious progress.

And then I learnt Esperanto. Because Esperanto is regular and almost logical, in a few weeks I was able to speak to foreigners in a language that wasn't my mother tongue. And that experience permitted me to speak English, even if I totally stopped to try to learn it. Something clicked in my brain. I'm still no Shakespeare, I'm sure there are tons of errors in this message, but I can now read (even novels), understand, write and speak English comfortably.

If one is raised in a monolingual environment, the brain begins to believe that there are no other other language it can speak as efficiently as the first language. And it's true. But this shouldn't be a barrier; and to make this barrier fall is one of the hardest parts in language learning. But the good news is that once it fell for one language, it fell for all languages. Of course there are other ways than Esperanto to make it fall, but it was the one which worked for me.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

It helps that they're so incredibly similar. My Portuguese grandmother can speak well enough to french, Italian, and Spanish people. Just from each person using their own language

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i assuming that they having a bloodwine marriage party

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or prune juice: a warrior's drink

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This one always confused me. Prunes are dried plums. Is it dehydrated plum juice? Or... Something else? I guess I should google it one day.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah dried plums. Idk why it suddenly becomes a new word, something French I think?