Perfered Translator

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2002-10-06 08:40pm

Translator of Choice:

Protocol Driod
Babblefish
Translator Microbes
Hoshi's Tricorder
Urhura's Earring
Telepathic Dolphin

Renewed_Valour1 · Post by **Renewed_Valour1** » 2002-10-06 08:48pm

THe Yosemite Bear wrote:Translator of Choice:

Nova Bombs...

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2002-10-06 08:48pm

Driod, At least I can make jokes about it, and if I get pissed off I can get a so much more stasfactory experance from destroying the droid with my baer hands

Though the Dolphin might be good at Partys

Say have you met my Telepathic Dolphin?

Post by **weemadando** » 2002-10-06 09:03pm

Babelfish.

Allows for some great pick up lines...

Kelly Antilles · Post by **Kelly Antilles** » 2002-10-06 09:08pm

Well, a protocol droid would be nice, but its attitude had better be better than 3P0. Babelfish is cool too, but I just wouldn't relish putting something in my ear, especially after having to catch it on my towel which I placed over the grate in the corner.

(kudos to whomever remembers where THAT is from)

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2002-10-06 09:23pm

Babelfish.

XaLEv · Post by **XaLEv** » 2002-10-06 09:27pm

Kelly Antilles wrote:Well, a protocol droid would be nice, but its attitude had better be better than 3P0. Babelfish is cool too, but I just wouldn't relish putting something in my ear, especially after having to catch it on my towel which I placed over the grate in the corner.

(kudos to whomever remembers where THAT is from)

I never could get past the part where I had to make an Infinite Improbability Drive.

Post by **Kuja** » 2002-10-06 09:50pm

none of the above. Give me the translator microbes from FARSCAPE. If keeps the special alien swear words untranslated (giving you an excuse to work your imagination) but everything important is understood.

Mr. Mister · Post by **Mr. Mister** » 2002-10-06 10:06pm

I agree about the translator microbes. Nothing external to lose, get broken, or have vacuumed out of your ear... for that matter, nothing to put in your ear. Plus their failure to translate some words (actually, I think it's strong or complex emotion that overwhelms them: IIRC, in one episode a Peacekeeper officer explains to a subornidate that Pilot, if overly emotional, is untranslatable; also, at least once paragraph-length speech by D'Argo has been untranslable while he was particularly emotional).

Post by **Kuja** » 2002-10-06 10:09pm

Mr. Mister wrote:I agree about the translator microbes. Nothing external to lose, get broken, or have vacuumed out of your ear... for that matter, nothing to put in your ear.

Not to mention that you don't have to deal with some pansy droid's personality.

Plus their failure to translate some words (actually, I think it's strong or complex emotion that overwhelms them: IIRC, in one episode a Peacekeeper officer explains to a subornidate that Pilot, if overly emotional, is untranslatable; also, at least once paragraph-length speech by D'Argo has been untranslable while he was particularly emotional).

Huh! That's a good point! I never thought of that.

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2002-10-06 10:43pm

Babelfish

Translator Microbes

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2002-10-07 12:19am

Droids are so tedious, especially the depressed ones that sit in corners and mope about having a brain the size of a planet but not being able to use it. Blah blah blah.

I prefer good old fashioned people translating. Makes it so much more realistic. :p

Typhonis 1 · Post by **Typhonis 1** » 2002-10-07 12:39am

Not to mentiuon what kind of language DOES an intelligent version of the color blue use?? ghow can yoiu tell when one is feeling blue and are they allergic to blueberries?

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2002-10-07 03:36am

IG-88E wrote:none of the above. Give me the translator microbes from FARSCAPE. If keeps the special alien swear words untranslated (giving you an excuse to work your imagination) but everything important is understood.

I HAVE Translater Microbes in the List

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2002-10-07 03:43am

Mind you with Translater Microbes they can't use Vogon Poetry on you.

XaLEv · Post by **XaLEv** » 2002-10-07 06:52am

I would take my own bastard hybrid of translator microbes and a babelfish. I would be able to alter the level of accuracy in the translation, from the limited capabilities of the microbes to the very accurate translation of the babelfish. I would be able to understand the most obscure and complicated languages, and be immune to Vogon poetry.

Post by **Kuja** » 2002-10-07 09:11am

THe Yosemite Bear wrote:
IG-88E wrote:none of the above. Give me the translator microbes from FARSCAPE. If keeps the special alien swear words untranslated (giving you an excuse to work your imagination) but everything important is understood.
I HAVE Translater Microbes in the List

Oopsie..uh, heh..heh...

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2002-10-07 09:09pm

hahahahahhahahahahaha

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2002-10-07 09:17pm

THe Yosemite Bear wrote:Mind you with Translater Microbes they can't use Vogon Poetry on you.

How do you know? It's awful but probably not profanity laced. And isn't its horror supposed to transcend language barrier?

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2002-10-07 09:28pm

Because the Translater Microbes refuse to process things that are too emotionally invovled, so they wouldn't bother with the translation as a result of the microbes would just refuse to translate, purhaps dieing in the process.

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2002-10-07 10:09pm

Kelly Antilles wrote:Well, a protocol droid would be nice, but its attitude had better be better than 3P0. Babelfish is cool too, but I just wouldn't relish putting something in my ear, especially after having to catch it on my towel which I placed over the grate in the corner.

(kudos to whomever remembers where THAT is from)

You must remember putting the junk mail on the satchel so the cleaning droids don't grab it.

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2002-10-07 10:12pm

Stormbringer wrote:
THe Yosemite Bear wrote:Mind you with Translater Microbes they can't use Vogon Poetry on you.
How do you know? It's awful but probably not profanity laced. And isn't its horror supposed to transcend language barrier?

I think that one of the characteristics of Vogon poetry is that being unable to understand it doesn't make it any less awful.

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2002-10-07 10:18pm

Ok, essentially the Microbes and the Babel Fish are the same, at least in function: they are more or less permanent, they intrude into a person's body. In the case of the Farscape microbes, I'm pretty sure the translation is one-sided (just because you're infected doesn't allow you to talk other people's languages). Not sure about the babelfish, it might make you talk also.

A side effect would be that once you are affected by either, you will be completely unable to actually learn a different language, because it will always sound like your own, mostly.

So it depends. I'd rather try to learn languages by myself and resort to some external means if I can't (like a droid) than having something alien in my brain.

XaLEv · Post by **XaLEv** » 2002-10-07 10:21pm

Slartibartfast wrote:...A side effect would be that once you are affected by either, you will be completely unable to actually learn a different language, because it will always sound like your own, mostly...

Not so. Aeryn is learning English.

Jadeite · Post by **Jadeite** » 2002-10-07 11:05pm

Babelfish is the best. Poor things caused so many wars, because it works so well.

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