The New ZBB Quote Thread
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Last edited by Raphael on Wed Dec 27, 2023 1:05 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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I suppose that may have been your intention, but not how you posted; we all learn from things like this.
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a quotation doesn't have to be marked as such to be a quotation...
just read the previous post, which is no longer possible in this thread...
so I had to point it out so as not to appropriate masako's words...
just read the previous post, which is no longer possible in this thread...
so I had to point it out so as not to appropriate masako's words...
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Gee, I wonder why? Yet again, I’m glad that I don’t live in that clearly God-forsaken country.CVS.com® is not available to customers or patients who are located outside of the United States or U.S. territories. We apologize for any inconvenience.
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Moose-tache wrote: ↑Sun Jan 07, 2024 7:04 am What is a consonantal root system but ablaut on steroids?
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Nortaneous wrote: ↑Fri Jan 05, 2024 2:01 pm The incubation of great eccentrics is, of course, the highest calling of any civilization, but it's mostly incompatible with employability.
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Man in Space wrote: ↑Mon Jan 15, 2024 3:47 am My character’s signature weapon is the fire extinguisher. Not the fancy sword given to him by the one adversary he considers worthy. Fire extinguishers. Surprising array of uses, they have.
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I’m not kidding. My character literally has a side business designing, building, and selling fire suppression equipment. I’ve made the GM have to consider the mechanics of what Halon does to things.bradrn wrote: ↑Mon Jan 15, 2024 3:55 amMan in Space wrote: ↑Mon Jan 15, 2024 3:47 am My character’s signature weapon is the fire extinguisher. Not the fancy sword given to him by the one adversary he considers worthy. Fire extinguishers. Surprising array of uses, they have.
Conventional foam fire extinguishers are surprisingly effective point-blank incendiary-denial weapons when deployed against dragons. You can literally snuff out a dragon.
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Sure, but the thought of it makes me laugh. (And the phrasing.)Man in Space wrote: ↑Mon Jan 15, 2024 4:11 amI’m not kidding. My character literally has a side business designing, building, and selling fire suppression equipment. I’ve made the GM have to consider the mechanics of what Halon does to things.bradrn wrote: ↑Mon Jan 15, 2024 3:55 amMan in Space wrote: ↑Mon Jan 15, 2024 3:47 am My character’s signature weapon is the fire extinguisher. Not the fancy sword given to him by the one adversary he considers worthy. Fire extinguishers. Surprising array of uses, they have.
Conventional foam fire extinguishers are surprisingly effective point-blank incendiary-denial weapons when deployed against dragons. You can literally snuff out a dragon.
Also, looking at the preceding page of discussion… has this now turned into the ‘ZBB discussing-whether-Quotes-qualify-or-not-for-the Thread’?
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Raphael wrote: ↑Wed Jan 17, 2024 3:53 pmAt the same time as [Sinn Féin local politician] Joe Austin was being berated on the streets because the IRA hadn’t yet attacked the Shankill, his constituency manager told him to call to an old lady’s house where there was a problem. The cat from next door wouldn’t stop spraying the flowers in her garden. She made it clear that she wanted the IRA to do something about it. Austin called next door, where an unshaven man in a vest looked up from his newspaper and said, ‘Hello, Joe, I suppose it’s about the cat.’ ‘It is.’ ‘Look, I’ll tell you what. It’s not my cat at all. I’m just minding it for a friend. I’ll leave it back and you can get that oul’ wan off my back.’ ‘Good man.’ Austin went back to the old lady’s door: ‘That’s okay about the cat. You’ll have no more trouble.’ The woman was awestruck: ‘Did you get it shot? Did the IRA shoot it? Is it dead?’
Yaaludinuya siima d'at yiseka wohadetafa gaare.
Ennadinut'a gaare d'ate eetatadi siiman.
T'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa.
Ennadinut'a gaare d'ate eetatadi siiman.
T'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa.
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Yaaludinuya siima d'at yiseka wohadetafa gaare.
Ennadinut'a gaare d'ate eetatadi siiman.
T'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa.
Ennadinut'a gaare d'ate eetatadi siiman.
T'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa.
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I'm posting this mainly because it got me thinking about how someone who doesn't know much about linguistics might interpret it: