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psst giglio
Thursday, 10-Jun-1999 08:11:11
He's trying to teach me something. I still don't get it. I should be more anonymous? Or, just shut up? Or, as you can see, things change as we go. Little dog Barky-G not so hostile now as when I first suprised him by calling his name. So I learn something, so he learn something.
I got an Idea for YUK (whY yoU Kry). Sort of a, well, a translation, a radio panel. Something with knobs on it, real low tech, just ASCII text
But the function is to help with aaaH, what should we call it - translation, but we need a word. We'll come up with the word, the "logo", later. Now the buttons: (1) Volume[Loud to Soft, and Off] (2)Dialect {Jive_Talk, Slang, Joking, Slouch, Mean Farmer, Regional:[Southern, Texan, California_Valley_girl, Mountain, Midwestern Chicago, Boston, Brooklyn], As_spoken_by[aa...uk,us,..zz]} Official [CBC, NBC, BBC, OZC (hehe, i think it's a cbc too)Plain_English, Basic_English] and Help me with this one(); (3)Speed [Fast to Slow, and Now_go_back_to(),and Repeat,] (4)Reference:[url,jargon,abbreviation,...](5) Explanation [Why do you say that that way?] (6) What other buttons?
Oh, I know what I was thinking. We can't call it babel-fish, but, how about, oh I don't know, Palooka? Or Walsh? Or Ivy, for the vine, not a grape vine where you "hear" rumours, but a vine none the less, crawls up the Ivy League brick School Buildings all over the place, and "must" hear something? hehe. Or Mole, the word for an informant in so-called Military Intelligence. or ???
And tell me how much of this you understand, please.
Humphrey P