Ask a Silly Question, Get a Silly Answer

[GamerwithnoGame]

I've attempted to associate Tengwar-like symbols to English phonemes in a way that makes more sense (to me, at least) than the association Tolkien created a couple of times, but I never wrote anything down and it was too much information to keep all in my head, so I never got very far.

I also came up with a way to represent numbers in base 16 using Tengwar-like symbols. Because hex is so much better than decimal...

NICE

Does this show up as a link and not a video?

Yep!

Have you ever looked at the pronunciation guide and symbols in any dictionaries? Referencing in particular something like the Shortened Oxford Dictionary, which has a whole thing at the start dedicated to it.

 

[Scottly318]

Learn something new everyday

Did you just teach an old dog a new trick?

 

[keybounce]

Yes, it's a link. Let me see what you did.

Not me.

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Ahh, looks like this site doesn't mangle HTTPS (the minecraft forum does).

 

[keybounce]

... ugh. I even "broke" the bracket-formatting so it would not show up at all.

Right. Sure.

This old dog did NOT yet learn a gnu trick.

Do gnu's come out in the dark?

 

[Someone Else 37]

Depends. What timezone does Stallman live in?

 

[Robijnvogel]

Depends. What timezone does Stallman live in?

GMT+25

How many hamburgers can one fit in your mom's...

purse?

(I dare you to ask me "Why?")

 

[Scottly318]

More than enough

But the real question is why not isn't it?

 

[Celestialphoenix]

(I dare you to ask me "Why?")

Why?

 

[Robijnvogel]

She told me I felt like one more.

Why did sir Elton John cross the Yellow Brick Road?

 

[keybounce]

Because a house witch was chasing him?

Why was a house witch chasing him?

 

[Robijnvogel]

Because he had stolen her red slippers.

Did you, or did you not kill Radio Star?

 

[Scottly318]

I'm innocent for a change...

Did you shoot the sheriff

 

[Robijnvogel]

I'm innocent for a change...

Did you shoot the sheriff

The deputy did.

What was the name of the first elephant in space?

 

[Scottly318]

Nelly

Where did the music go?

 

[Robijnvogel]

Off the cliff, with the lemmings.

At what station does the Pyure-express dump its passengers?

 

[GamerwithnoGame]

The International Space Station.

When is a door not a door?

 

[Scottly318]

When it's ajar

How do you get an elephant in a refrigerator?

 

[keybounce]

Top shelf, behind the pickle jar.

What is on the bottom shelf?

 

[Robijnvogel]

A squashed lion

What is the difference between a dead bird?

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[Muaht]

42.

(My family actually has a "What is the difference between a duck?" running joke.)

Has anyone else ever come up with an artificial language or numbering system (even just a little bit), just for funsies?

Not quite, but I "encrypt" things I'd prefer to be private in Old English runes.

Why do Endermen shake when you look at them?
(BTW the Old English word endemann means someone "living in end times").