h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I hope you're not calling German a monstrous language!

German is great, but I like the sound of English better. People's voices get deeper. (very sexy)

*No comment*
I don't know if they get deeper or not... Hmmm....

Watch (or hear) yourself talking French, your voice will get higher.

BTW what is spam?
Do I want to know it?

I still manage to talk French with a strong English accent, slow and deeper than the French do. The way the French speak French is completely imcomprehensible - if only they spoke it with an English accent I'd understand them! Or why not get them to just speak English? A lot easier.

As for spam, it has two meanings.
Spam = a thin meat often had in sandwhiches.
Monty Python (a British comedy series) had a famous sketch involving spam, and a spam song that went "Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam...." etc
Spam = slang for junk e-mails that advertise something, or going around on H2G2 entering forums for no reason but to advertise something is spamming.

Hope that helps!

Aha, thanks.
(Do you say "aha" in English?(Probably not...(means that I finally understood something)))
I don't think the French are willing to learn English...
They love their country and their language.
I know Monty Python, it's famous all over the world. (I don't know anyone who doesn't know it...)
John Cleese (I don't know how to write this, don't kill me if it isn't spelt correctly) is what we call typically British.
(I once had a fight because of typical/ly, I don't know wheter I or my teacher won. So I forget what to use)
Suppose I'm writing nonsense, better write you an e-mail.

Hi Hannah, yes, we say "aha" in English, but more in the way of "I thought so" than finally understanding something, where people more say "Aaahhh" or "oh".
Whether John Cleese is typically English or not is a very good question - more typically upper-class English, yes, but not everyone in England is like him - the working class aren't.
I guess it's the whole idea of the "everyone in England being rich" stereotype again.

I think everytime you take one person for a country is stereotyping.
It's not that everyone in England is like that, it's just that no-one in an other country is like that.
I don't look like Arnold Schwarzenegger, either. And I hardly ever save the world...

I wouldn't worry about hardly ever saving the world, my friend, as even Arnie himself has never done that really, just pretended to.
Thanks for all your e-mails - I'll reply ASAP!

I wonder who could have saved the world. Any secret agents avoiding the Third World War, and we wouldn't know...
Looking forward to your mails.

That's very true - although would the world really be in danger if there was a world war? It's survived ice-ages, volcanoes and earthquakes, bombardments from meteors and all the damage that we humans have done to it. So, I'm pretty sure that the Earth is pretty sure of being perfectly safe, it's only the life on it that can be endangered.
One e-mail's on it's way. Writing another now.

I've just read it. I don't speak Danish either
I'd like to know what kind of creatures come when the human race extincts. The earth will survive, you're right, but the earth alone without any human being on it wouldn't be the same. My world is built around people, if the die, my world is destroyed.

Who knows what would happen after humanity died out - very good question. I don't think anyone will really find out, and there may well be several different types of animals that live for a few million years, then die out and be replaced by other types of animals. All too confusing.
But yes, the people we know are our world. I wouldn't know what to do if I lost all the friends I have. I'm not the best at making friends, but I know that once I do make friends then they generally stay friends for a very long time.

I could say the same thing, don't have many friends, but they are good friends.
We are just a kind of animal that lives for a few million years.
Just imagine all the technology will be destroyed and everything we did wouldn't matter anymore.

Yep, pretty much. Sad and meaningful at the same time. Makes you wonder about it all - but at least you know that no matter what, H2G2 will still exist even if the rest of mankind has been exterminated, and this thread will be read by the next creatures.

They'll probably laugh at our primitive civilisation.
NOTE TO ALL THE NEXT CREATURES:
STOP LAUGHING!
So, Done that.
The next creatures will find my bones and take them to a museum.
Just imagine.

I don't know if I'd want some creatures that, say, are not dissimilar to our guinea pigs to see my bones in a museum day after day after day. I'd feel naked and embarrased..

Have you seen that exhibition, in which they should all kinds of dead bodies, sliced, etc...?
I think it was in London once, it was in Vienna last year.
It was called Körperwelten, so it would be world of bodies or something like that.

No - and I don't know anything about it. Did you see it, and what was it like?
Not really my kind of thing.