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nerdfishgirl
runecestershire

So “my name is Cow… i lik the bred” seems to be the Hot New Meme, and I like it. Here’s an odd thing about it, though; a lot of the cutsey animal talk I see on the internet (especially birb-speak) sometimes reminds me of Middle English, but “lik the bred” takes it even further and sounds downright Chaucerian, and it isn’t just the rhyme and cadence. Some of the “lik the bred” pastiches I see around don’t really work because they’re in just plain doggo-fran speak (haven’t decided if Doggo-fran and Birb are the same thing or not), but the ones that really hit all the same notes as the original have something going on with the mangled vowels and spelling that’s not the same as the mangling in Doggo and/or Birb. Maybe some time I’ll gather up some examples and look closely at the vowels and spelling and try and sort out precisely what’s up.

darkersolstice

@hobbitguy1420

hobbitguy1420

my name is Cow
i make yu think
of likking bred
and tayking drink
i studdy buks
that i have herd
so wen yur gon
i rite the werd.

hobbitguy1420

now yu may think
wen reeding this
“yu typ with hoofs,
wy dont yu miss?”
i ask yu now
be pashent, plees
i type with tung
i lik the kees

nerdfishgirl

@galyamova-aigerim

quasi-normalcy
raptorific

Also the Enterprise vs. Millennium Falcon debate has never ceased to confuse me, like, you’re basically wondering who’d win in a fight between a fully staffed US Navy research vessel armed with harpoons and torpedos and all sorts of other boat vessels OR your weedman and his sweet vintage van, his buddy riding shotgun with a crossbow

kiriamaya

Back when the EU was still called the EU, the published technical sources did seem to indicate that Star Wars had more powerful weapons, hyperdrives, etc. than what was listed in the Trek tech manuals. I think that’s what the “Millenium Falcon would win” claim is based on. But really, both Wars and Trek (EUs/novelverses included) just made up their technology stuff as they went along, changing and retconning as necessary to fit any given plot. So, probably, if such an improbable battle ever “really” happened, the outcome would be decided by whatever the writers decided was best for the plot, not by any tech manual stats or whatever.

(I remember there used to be this website where this one guy, obviously a Star Wars fan, selectively used all these different EU sources (along with copious insults and cursing) to claim that Star Trek ships would always lose and that anyone who claimed otherwise was stupid and/or spouting propaganda. The scary thing (aside from the fact that some of his arguments were just nonsense) was just how over-the-top the site was: it wasn’t enough for this guy to simply show that the Executor could beat the Enterprise and leave it at that; he had to prove that Star Trek fans were less intelligent, that Trek itself was worse-written and less moral (“zomg Star Trek promotes socialism!”), and that the Empire was better than the Federation in every imaginable way. It was one of the most bizarre things I’d seen on the Internet up until that point.)

canonicalmomentum

like i’d pretend to be surprised that someone could watch star wars, pat himself on the back endlessly for his great intellectualism, and still not recognise that the empire are the baddies, but it would be a lie. that’s basically the epitome of ‘nerd culture’.

(and i think i’ve glimpsed this site. hell i think the atomic rockets guy linked it at some point… yes, of course he fucking did. it’s here. it is incredibly embarassing and i’m glad i’ve never interacted with the guy. but i’m not sure if my what if school of etc. etc. posts are any less embarassing.)

quasi-normalcy

I think it was stardestroyer.net, and yeah, it was the most embarrassing thing on the Internet ca. 2000