URGENT NOTICE OF ZOT FOR SEPT/OCT 2013

Intel Analysis | September 5, 2013 | Victoria Bingham

[Silentgypsy]

Yes, gorgeous! Do you live in a forest?

[Silentgypsy]

Lol!

[Silentgypsy]

Great fun! Thank you for posting!

[GeronL]

remember I got the idea on the last undead thread

[NicknamedBob]

Also seems he wrote the owners manual, so the descriptive wording is - unique.. Last time I had to reference it I found myself stuck in today yesterday. I'm still not sure if I'm in yesterday's tomorrow or today's today. Owner's manual offers the helpful line "If you find yourself stuck in t he future, don't worry about it. Time will eventually catch up to you."

General rule of thumb, never accept a time-travel machine whose instruction manual has been written by someone not fully conversant with proper tense structure.

Or worse, translated from a foreign language.

[Silentgypsy]

I remembered but I wouldn’t have been able to tell you which UT it was on.

[NicknamedBob]

Among other things, the Undead Thread is a time-traveling thread.

We have occupied threads, abandoned them, and then returned to them many months later.

Anybody who can keep it all straight needs to have his head examined.

I can keep it all straight.

[Darksheare]

I liked it.
The contest judges were obviously infected with a gnudge.

[NicknamedBob]

"I liked it.
The contest judges were obviously infected with a gnudge."

I thought it was admirable.

[GeronL]

bump

[NoCmpromiz]

Or worse, translated from a foreign language.

Well... There is the fine print on the title page that says something about being translated from the original Yaqkdorean Snorkphough dialect by a 'Irvine Plotznyk' with assistance from Siri and Babelfish... I'm not sure how reliable that would be.. I couldn't find Irvine in a Google search which leads me to believe it is a pen name...

[Darksheare]

Original edition was in zohgthrakian hologlyphs.

[NoCmpromiz]

zohgthrakian hologlyphs.

And how well does babelfish handle that, er, them, er, whatever..?

[Darksheare]

Not very well at all.
It is a three dimensional hologlyph that is similar to reading four lines of text that are woven together on three axis “plus one”.

[NoCmpromiz]

So then this "Irvine Plotznyk" listed as the translator is more than likely the transliteration into English, possibly via Yaqkdorian, of a Zohgthrakian name, and hesheit was probably the Field Engineer in charge of product rollout in Snorkphough on Yaqkdor and thus had to translate the manual?

Hesheit wouldn't happen to also be the product specialist in charge of our immediate portion of the universe, would hesheit?

Boy.. talk about translation artifacts in the text... From Zohgthrakian to Yaqkdorian to English via Babelfish and Siri..

Babelfish has always produced some, um, marginal translations, but I now know why Siri is so messed up. 'Her' code base was effectively scrambled when 'Irvine' tried to use 'her' to translate the spoken Yaqkdorian to English. When that failed hesheit tried the 3d audio representation of the original Zohgthrakian. Apple has never been able to quite recover the code base, and even now, IOS7 doesn't do 3d holographic audio too well, if at all...

But it might explain the footnote to the comment ("If you find yourself stuck in the future, don't worry about it. Time will eventually catch up to you.") that says something to the effect that the previous instructions are void if by accident you have time-traversed a dimensional door. It says 'In that case, all your base are belong to us..'

Probably the closest thing Siri could come up with...

[Darksheare]

Tomorroyesterthursday.
It does eventually work out, but minor objects may be missing.
The translational artifacts are of a “conversion from time dependant context to representational text” type.
The human mind cannot conceive some of the sounds represented, let alone the human body produce them.

[Silentgypsy]

And being unable to keep it straight does not necessarily preclude needing to get one’s head examined. Did I get that straight?

[Silentgypsy]

How’d you get to know so much about nature stuff?

[Silentgypsy]

I meant in general terms, e.g., formal study/hobby/interest in your surroundings?

[Silentgypsy]

Speaking of that, do you have any idea why the Soviet Union banned, “A Wrinkle in Time”?