That's not a joke, look it up
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Replying to @FreyjaErlings
@AndriErlingsson But it's not pronounced that way is it1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @arthur_affect
@arthur_affect Klingon is sort of deliberately linguistically counterintuitive and borrows the rarest rules, so... http://www.forvo.com/word/ghoti%27/1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @FreyjaErlings
@AndriErlingsson I don't understand why the transliteration of Klingon into the Latin character set would be deliberately perverse2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @arthur_affect
@arthur_affect Because the people who made klingon are linguistic sadists, basically2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @FreyjaErlings
@AndriErlingsson The Federation speaks and writes English like we do (however unlikely that may be) so in universe it doesn't make sense1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @arthur_affect
@arthur_affect That Klingon occasionally doesn't get translated by the universal translator wasn't bad enough? Now you're thinking about it4 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @FreyjaErlings
@AndriErlingsson But it's more powerful than Adams intended. It should "translate" you to the degree you can't misspeak at all1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @arthur_affect
@arthur_affect It gets even weirder when you realize the description of it from the book predicts the rise of internet Atheism1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @FreyjaErlings
@arthur_affect Straight Up Richard Dawkins going on in here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_races_and_species_in_The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy#Babel_fish …2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
@AndriErlingsson Anything that wouldn't get conveyed by normal speech is the fish's food
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Replying to @arthur_affect
@arthur_affect and errors are, well, you are communicating via the fish's poo, what do you expect1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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