A Conversation for The Manifesto for the Campaign to rename Thursday, "Thing"
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International Thingites ?
El_Poco Started conversation Nov 20, 2003
I was deeply moved by your manifesto, but I wondered if you had any idea about exporting the thingite cause to non-english speaking countries. If so, would you stick to the same names, or translate them, or do it totally differently ?
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Ralph the Wonder Llama and André the dodo; Excrement Occurs Posted Nov 20, 2003
I've made an attempt to translate them to Dutch, but it wasn't met with great enthousiasm, and the conversation got buried beneath a couple of tons of backlog.
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GodBen (The Magical Astronomer) - 00000011 Posted Nov 20, 2003
Frankly, I think we need to make it so that Windows displays the days in their true forms. Does anybody know where I might be able to get such a thing? 
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Bob McBob Posted Nov 20, 2003
Windows doesn't display the days of the week normally.
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Amy: ear-deep in novels, poetics, and historical documents. Posted Nov 20, 2003
Well, instead of SMTWTFS you could have it say DSWWTPD.
And my clock thing will go "Day name, Day number, month, year" if I hover my mouse over it. I know you can change them, just not sure how.
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Wøñkø Posted Nov 20, 2003
you can do it on your site if you have one...
go to dynamicdrive, take the javascript for a date-time thingie, and change the code a bit... very easy.
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Shea the Sarcastic Posted Nov 21, 2003
For some ...
And how would you translate Wibble into Swahili, anyway?
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AK - fancy that! Posted Nov 21, 2003
Schkalicma? I dunno, a guess? YOu'd jsut make the stuff up, wouldn't you?
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Shea the Sarcastic Posted Nov 22, 2003
That's my point! Since most of it is made up, why re-make it? Know wudd I mean?
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AK - fancy that! Posted Nov 22, 2003
Except for languages that don't evereverever sound like the words. LIke ones that are harsh, or don't have certain sounds...
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Ralph the Wonder Llama and André the dodo; Excrement Occurs Posted Nov 24, 2003
Right...
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AK - fancy that! Posted Jan 10, 2004
really! you wouldn't find the word Thing in Norwegian, or German! They don't have tons of sounds ini Native American languages liek CHerokee(for example, "R")
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Wøñkø Posted Jan 10, 2004
thing doesn't have an R in it.
they can /translate/.
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AK - fancy that! Posted Jan 10, 2004
here's the plan:
you read the thread from the beginning and post again, because you're missing what I was arguing about
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International Thingites ?
- 1: El_Poco (Nov 20, 2003)
- 2: Ralph the Wonder Llama and André the dodo; Excrement Occurs (Nov 20, 2003)
- 3: GodBen (The Magical Astronomer) - 00000011 (Nov 20, 2003)
- 4: Bob McBob (Nov 20, 2003)
- 5: Amy: ear-deep in novels, poetics, and historical documents. (Nov 20, 2003)
- 6: Wøñkø (Nov 20, 2003)
- 7: Shea the Sarcastic (Nov 21, 2003)
- 8: Wøñkø (Nov 21, 2003)
- 9: AK - fancy that! (Nov 21, 2003)
- 10: Shea the Sarcastic (Nov 22, 2003)
- 11: AK - fancy that! (Nov 22, 2003)
- 12: AK - fancy that! (Nov 22, 2003)
- 13: Ralph the Wonder Llama and André the dodo; Excrement Occurs (Nov 24, 2003)
- 14: AK - fancy that! (Jan 10, 2004)
- 15: Wøñkø (Jan 10, 2004)
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