Remote Island Adopts Dothraki Language 65
An anonymous reader writes "The tiny island of Tristan da Cunha is officially the most remote inhabited archipelago in the world with few connections to the outside and access only by sea when the notoriously stormy south Atlantic co-operates which is not often. Entertainment options are limited and LARPing in Game of Thrones style has become massively popular, so much so that the islanders have declared Dothraki to be an official language, alongside English."
This article? (Score:2, Offtopic)
You mean this article isn't already in the Dothraki Language?
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Nah, I'm pretty sure it's just Welsh.
Cthonic. (Score:4, Funny)
"Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!"
Re:Cthonic. (Score:5, Funny)
"Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!"
O R'LYEH?
I see no problem with this, as long as... (Score:3)
...we don't allow them to have ships.
Re:Cthonic. (Score:4, Funny)
There's an Easter egg at rot13.com - if you cypher that text it actually gives you the rot13 of "In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming".
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Thanks! Worth knowing.
I guess great minds really DO think alike! As do trivial ones... ;-)
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Ncevy sbby! - Alneyngubgrc.
ROT13 (Score:5, Informative)
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Re:ROT13 (Score:4, Informative)
You're not missing out on anything, believe me.
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You're not missing out on anything, believe me.
Actually I think it might be improving the quality content of the site.
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Fewer typo's and grammar errors at least.
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Family Guy proves you wrong....or right. I'm not sure which.
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Looking at it makes my face hurt.
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Re:ROT13 (Score:5, Funny)
I was pretty let down by Slashdot last year—I mean, no April Fools jokes at all? It couldn't get any worse.
But this year I was impressed, because they proved it could.
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Oh, and remember, next Friday is a Hawaiian shirt day. [youtube.com]
Doesn't it look like Lumbergh is running /.?
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Unsubscribing (was: Re:ROT13) (Score:2)
I only keep up with Slashdot via the RSS feed.
The stupid decision to ROT13 everything as a joke (which has gone on far too long anyway), makes the RSS feed entirely unusable. It basically makes my decision much easier - I'll unsubscribe from the RSS feed. Which basically means I'll see articles / visit this site way, way less frequently in the future.
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Enough with the fucking retarded ROT13 shite, turn it ff already.
I'm not sure what's funnier; seeing all you whiners kvetch about rot13 all day, or the fact that you got modded +5 Informative for that.
Slashdot, you may have outdone yourselves today.
Invasion (Score:1)
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So does that mean they have given up on strolling over their island pretending to be Arthur Gordon Pym? Good on them. You can't live out your whole life as a fantasy.
Of Nantucket? I'm here for you....
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(Apart from the obvious escalation of crisis after crisis in a dead-end version of a Bildungsroman)
Case study in overkill (Score:1)
If sites like Hacker News are taking off, it's cause editors of /. don't understand their readers.
This gag was barely funny the first time. Now it just reminds me what a sad fossil this site is.
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They still got on a boat to follow their Khaleesi.
Re:In case you don't feel like decrypting (Score:5, Funny)
As someone who lived on Staten Island most of his life, I can say for certain the native language there is not Dothraki, nor is that commonly spoken there as to know about it you'd have to be able to read. The usual dialect spoken there sounds a lot like "HAYHAYVINNIEMYMAN! Howyadoon,longtimenosee, youan fuckin Joey dont fuckin come out no more!", which is basically the formal way of saying "Hello, I'm about to punch you on the back."
Screw Ths (Score:1)
Sigh! (Score:2)
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It already is over (it's noon on the 2nd here) and yet the ROT13 thing persists. They're a full 24 hours late. Idiots.
Fucking stupid slashdot janitors (Score:2)
The ROT13 thing was funny once. It is now just irritating.
Please stop being such stupid unfunny fuckwits.
Fuck this. (Score:3)
ROT13 has to go (Score:1)
I hate April 1st!!!!!! CAN THE ENCRYPTION!!!!!!! (Score:2)
Interesting place (Score:3)
This island, and the "nearby" St Helena, are interesting places.
One of my colleagues is from St Helena, population about 4000. She grew up on the island, and remoteness and cost of travel is so high that the first time she ever left it was age 18, to attend university in the UK. Both island groups are UK overseas territories, and receive British TV, news etc, but I'm not sure that's much preparation for actually living in a country where we call a settlement of 4000 people a "village".
There remoteness also gives them unique flora and fauna
Unmatched: OMG! Ponies! (Score:3)
OMG! Ponies! is still the best April Fools Slashdot has ever done. I do wish they would at least repeat it.
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That wasn't a joke. That was a prophecy.
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Interestingly, while OMG Ponies! is on-topic for the Dothraki, there's the huge question of how a language used solely by hydrophobes could possibly work as a functional language on an ISLAND....
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Alas ye olde pinkdot, we barely knew ye. Return unto us hither in a better life, anew. [slashdot.org]
Joke? (Score:2)
ORFG NCEVY SBBYF RIRE9 XRRC HC GUR TBBQ JBEX (Score:1)
Please let this not be an AFD joke (Score:2)
"they have taken to large scale LARPing across the entire archipelago with pretty much the entire population taking part."
Until this very moment, I never thought I could use the word "LARP" and "cool" in the same sentence, but this sounds pretty cool.
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Does indeed sound like it could be a blast.. not that I've ever tried LARPing but still, if they have dragons AND women (not bearded men in a medieval dress) then I am there.. maybe.