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[BlueHeron]

I'd have Star Wars' baby.

 ha ha, really? me too 

Imagine!  It could say things like, "Yeah, I've got an exotic ancestry.  One-quarter Wookie, one-eighth Ewok, half Earth-human, and an eighth Dark Lord...."   

[starfish]

Willem's B-English Challenge:

Is that your Dad?

My translations

How does he relate to you?

Did he father you?

Do I see your dad standing there?

I've never met your dad.  Can you point him out to me?

That man looks like your dad!

My challenge:

I'm sorry

[Django]

Challenge:

I'm sorry

Possibilities:

I apologize
Please don't let what I did offend you
Forgive me
I made a mistake
I regret my actions

My challenge:

Where are we?

[Willem]

Challenge:

Where are we?

Possibilities:

Do you recognize this place?
Did we lose our way?
Do you know the name of this place?
Have we arrived?
Do you know the way from here?
Where have we located?
Where do we stand right now?



I want to hear someone else's response to this too! No follow up challenge from me.

[starfish]

If no one minds, I'd like to add a few more to "Why are you always like this".  Not to undermine anyone else's response; I just think this particularly civilized phrase needs plenty of consideration .

I feel angry when you do that.

I feel like this behavior causes a problem.  Can we talk about it?

You behaved this way in the past, and I have to admit it still annoys me.

It seems like you automatically react by doing this.  Can you tell me about it?

You always act like a bitch!  I hate you! (Okay, that one didn't feel very productive, but I did translate it into e-prime  .)

[Willem]

In honor of starfish, NEW RULE for the Phrases of Speech Challenge:

Ye may also answer any previously met challenge with your own responses, especially if you have already answered a challenge firstly (so as to not hog ye thread).

Let the games resume!

[Willem]

New challenge:

Civilization is bad

[yarrow dreamer]

Civilization is bad.

uh oh. . .

I hate civilization.

Civilization sucks eggs.

Civilization can go jump in a lake.

One cannot ever sustain civilization.

Civilization pisses me off.

Civilization destroys everything in its path.

Who needs civilization?

Jason Godesky's theses #12, 13, & 21-25

now try this:

Tag, you're it!

[BlueHeron]

Tag, you're it!

translates to....

Gotcha!

I bequeath to you the properties of It-ness.

Ha-ha, now we shall see how you fare as It.

Not fast enough, Tom ... or should I call you ... "It"?

.... or just, Tag!

New challenge:

He's a real Nowhere Man.

[Nodal Nim]

BlueHeron's challenge: He's a real Nowhere Man.

Some possibilities:

He doesn't seem to go anywhere or do anything.

He reminds me of that Beatles song. . .

I think of him as a Nowhere Man.

I pronounce him lazy, listless, blind, & without efficacy.

He makes his Nowhere Plans for Nobody.

So I stopped checking for posts on this forum, & when I came back, this thread had positively caught fire!  How exciting.  This morning, I updated th dictionary to include all your translations (& threw in a few of my own).  A reminder: if you'd like to edit it directly, you can: just use th password 'eprime'.

http://eprimedictionary.pbwiki.com/

This collaborative 'sandbox' method seems to work fantastically, tho, so let's keep it up!

(An quick update for those interested: I have not yet managed to go 24 hours speaking or thinking entirely in E-Prime, altho not for lack of trying.  I no longer consider that kind of purity th goal.  I have definitely changed how I speak & think.  Almost every time I use 'to be' I do so knowingly, choosing it as th most efficient way to express myself, while admitting to myself that it represents a bit of a 'shortcut'.  Sometimes, it comes out w/o my having thought it thru, but I immediately recognize that & either let it go or correct it, depending on whether I think it makes an important difference in th conversation.  I plan to go further w/ this, & I feel like I've made a good start.)

Enough about that.  I shall continue th thread w/o further interruption:

New challenge: an actual question somebody asked me about two dogs I walked together th other day.  Bonus points if you give an E-Prime answer (that doesn't imply a B-English question): Are they sisters or brothers?

[Richard]

Do you know the status of their siblinghood?
Should I call them sisters? Should I call them brothrers? I want to address them correctly.
I see sisters, I see brothers, no, I see Fill in the blank for me.
Wow, I can’t figure out how that batch relates to each other in terms of kinship… <appearing puzzled and waiting for help>
Dem mutts, which set o’ organs they got fer breedin, and can you confirm whether or not they spawned from the same litter?

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NEW CHALLENGE: When my work is finished, I'm coming back for you.

[chase]

Richards challenge: When my work is finished, I'm coming back for you.

When I finish work, I should come back for you.
With work done, I always come back for you.
I finish work. I come back. 
I intend coming back for you, once I do the work.

Mai challenge: You're all ganging up on me! And a good response, please!

[E]

New Value for this game, Phrases of Speech Challenge:  We all have powers, such, & whatever to answer challenges with more than just five possibilities.

Chase's present challenge:

You're all ganging up on me!

Possibilities:

• You all gangup on me!
  You all gangup me!
  You gangup on me!
  You gangup me!
  You gang me!
  You gang gangup at me!
  Everybody at this place gangsup on me!
  You at this place gangup on me!
  Gangingup on me you all!
  You all have joined together to get me!
  You all have united to get me!

New challenge:

REWILD is wild.

[Richard]

THE CHALLENGE MET:

// Rewild, wild - same thing.
//
// When comparing wild and rewild we decipher zero difference.
//
// Rewild didn't become wild, the two have never had and will never have a point of seperation.
//
// When I think wild I also think rewild and my thoughts do not change, except for those two pesky pieces of the alphabet.
//
// If wild and rewild sat in a boat, the boat would have one occupant.
//

THE CHALLENGE PRESENTED:

If you're a deceiver you should know, Imma on the way, and Imma tell it like it is, yo.

[Starving.Wolf]

THE CHALLENGE PRESENTED:

If you're a deceiver you should know, Imma on the way, and Imma tell it like it is, yo.

Response:

If you choose to lie, know the consequences -- specifically mine.

I pity the fool that lies to me!

Lie to me, and you stand to regret it.

Cheaters never prosper.

Don't you act like no jive-turkey, or you gonna get got in the end!

Don't sell me any snake-oil.  Jerk.


Challenge:

Are you walking home from work tonight?