I WANNA!!! . . . .

[Peter Ahlstrom]

I'm pretty sure it means you just went up a level. The closer you are to your next level, the more stars you have, I'm guessing.

[Andrew the Great]

But that doesn't make sense because I just leveled up and I only had one star right before that.

[Comatose]

I think I just leveled up, and I lost four stars so that makes sense.

[Miyabi]

I don't think I'm anywhere near leveling. ha ha.

Oh sad.  I start this thread then miss all the fun cause I was in NYC and then drove across the country back to Idaho.  How come I missed all the making fun of the mok?

[Comatose]

We could start over again, if you really want too, I'm sure Ookla doesn't mind .

[Miyabi]

ha ha.  So did we ever get any definite translational pattern or am I gonna have to work it out myself? ha ha.

[Comatose]

You're talking about Spook now right?  I don't think there is any pattern, it's just kind of made up.  I think that's why Sarah is so annoyed with it.

[Miyabi]

There is a patter, it is just unconventional and that's why she is mad. ha ha.

[Comatose]

No, I'm pretty sure there's no pattern, and it was just kind of made up I think, here's a quote from an annotation.

Spook is based very loosely on a person I knew from the timewastersguide forums. Zack--or Gemm, as his nick was--is very good at posting random gibberish which, if you look at it very closely, actually reads to be rather poetic. I wanted to do a character who spoke with a dialect that had an interesting rhythm, yet was difficult to make out.

Hence the character of Spook. Normally, I don't like dialects. Yet, something about this one was very intriguing to me. I like the way his sentences sound, even when they're completely unintelligible. I do realize, however, that some people really don't like reading what he has to say. Don't worry--he begins to speak more and more intelligibly from here on out. Previous

[Miyabi]

That doesn't mean there wasn't a pattern.

[SarahG]

Well, there WASN'T a pattern, conventional or unconventional, and that's that.  If one is ever discovered and explained in a convincing way, I will eat humble pie, but until then, I will rant whenever Spook's speech is mentioned in a positive way.

Miyabi, if this helps you understand my aversion, I feel about Spook's speech the way you feel about facial hair.  (By the way, I have different tastes - I think soul patches are the worst kind of facial hair ever invented, and I'm mad at Apollo Anton Ohno for popularizing them.  On the other hand, I'm OK with some kinds of beards - neatly trimmed, but not sculpted.)  It just makes me cringe and shudder.

[Comatose]

Exactly, what makes you think there is a pattern anyway, Miyabi?

[Miyabi]

I'm going to spend part of tonight finding and writing down everything that he said and try and figure it out.

I guess I thought there was a pattern because I understood everything he said.  I am good at things like Math, Science, Art, etc., and I'm majoring in Software development.  All things that have rigorous patterns.  So I assumed that if it appealed to me there was some hidden patter. ha ha. 

I'll work on it though tonight.

[Andrew the Great]

If it's any comfort, Miyabi, I always assumed there was a pattern to it as well and just didn't take the time to figure it out.

[Loud_G]

I'm sure there is a pattern, because in order to write the character believably and without  jarring the reader, there has to be some cohesive method to his particular pattern of speech.

I never thought of it as a dialect or tradespeak so much as the kind of speech you get when a foreigner of any country comes and tries to speak english without much formal training. They will automatically fall back on grammar and composition from their native language even while speaking English. This leads to some very quirky conversations the farther you get from the indo-european language group.