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

'S me, Kumetanzuka. I thought I'd come take a turn around your place and see of you were home. I brought you a potted african violet to thank you for your compliment on my story. I do hope you're not allergic or some such horrid thing! I like your page but... (I'm a little afraid and quite a lot embarrassed to have to ask this) who is Peter Jones?

Well, I wanted to say that if you're searching for others who have tried to communicate and run into obstacles, you've found your woman. I am working to overcome that in every aspect of my life. In fact, that's what my homepage here is all about. The Tower of Babel - I've decided to conquer my greatest communication goal first, and work my way down. That way, when I get down to figuring out how to beat into dense friends the knowledge that I'm smarter than I look, that'll seem like no problem at all. Hmmm - it sounded smarter before I said it.... see, there we go again!

K

Hi, K,
Sorry I was out. Thanks for the gift. I've put it on top of the pile of dictionaries so it can see daylight. If you can get that tower of yours to work I needn't disturb it. The internet and WAP phones all all very well but they'll never replace telepathy.

Peter Jones.
I feel honoured that you should ask me. He was "The Voice of the Book" in the original Hitch hiker radio series and the subsequent TV version. He had played Shakespearian tragedy to farce and was a regular in a radio show which involved speaking for "Just a Minute" on a given topic "without hesitation, repetition or deviation from the subject" where his inability to abide by the rules and "typical" English absentmindedness were his trademark whilst the other players were scrbbling to obtain points. He seemed a very warm, humourous and gentle person and was very popular in England, as you can check at:
http://www.h2g2.com/A348400
I shall do my best to take good care of the plant, although I am not very practical. Any problem and I'll hop in an ambulance and call round.
Thanks again.

Ahem,
How insular can one be?
In my intro I mention beeb.net as if it is universally famous. Perhaps it is but, just in case ....
The BBC is affectionately known as "the beeb" (BeeBeeCee) and it was on BBC Radio 4 that Hitchiker was first broadcast. beeb.net is an ISP / website provided by the BBC. I was unaware of Douglas Adams' website and h2g2 until one day when I somehow hit the "wrong" key and fetched up on babelfish/altavista. The rest, as they say, is history. Well not quite, but it is written up on my space.
If you can't make sense of it, try sticking this in your ear .
Just thought you might be interested, but I've been wrong before.

Thanks - I've not been doing so great with recieving responses around here, so thanks.

I have never heard the radio version or seen the movie of the HG. But now that I know who he is, I understand the veneration. I must admit I was also mildly curious as to your reference the "the beeb" but I didn't want to appear TOTALLY ignorant and unworldly. I am a young canadian girl who's never been off-continent and rarely pays the right sort of attention to the world around her.

I have found the babelfish.altavista very useful in the past. Translating an entire text written originally in Latin, by a German, translated into portuguese when you need it in english... Mozart's Requiem is interesting to read in Portuguese though, speaking as someone who understands some Spanish.

Umm, thanks for the offer, but there's only ONE fish who's allowed in my ear.

BTW, is there a pet shop around anywhere? I think Ghos needs a buddy to keep him company when I'm out and about without him.

K

What have I missed?
I know about Physch, a name not to be forgotten, but "Ghos"? Whoodat?
The only one I've found so far is:
http://www.h2g2.com/A4717
but that's about as much use as Michael Palin's Norwegian Blue Parrot store.
SRRY

Ghos is Physch spelled differently, pronounced the same.
I should explain that I am one of those crazy people who's in love with Linguistics, of all the silly things, and likes to play around with language.

F --> lauGH (l-a-f) --> Gh
I --> wOmen (w-I-m-I-n) --> o
SH--> Sugar (sh-u-g-r) --> s

Crazy? yes. Phonetically impossible? yes. but it's his name.

I shall have a look at that shop you mentioned. Thanks.
K

What a clot!
D'you know ... there was something lurking just below consciousness.
George Bernard Shaw "GHOTI".
I know you have met my friend Eeyore, but with your interest in the English language you might like to consider:
http://www.h2g2.com/A338825 Oddities of English
http://www.h2g2.com/A291935 Oddities of English
They are (I think) the same article but they have separate responses and some of them are equally interesting and worthwhile.
Please give my regards to Physch.

Thanks muchly. I found another pet shop, one that I think should better fulfill my -- indeed anybody in the known universe's -- pet requirements. Have you ever shopped at the mall on the Space Station? Or maybe it's its own separate Space Station... anyway, it's extraterrestrial. It's called, I think, Completely Pets.

"GHOTI" rings a bell, but each time it rings, I turn, and the toll seems to be coming from a different direction...

Thanks for the links. I shall have a look at them soon.

See you