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Work Room - Week 24
The new topic is up: http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/788789.html
and I can't wait until people start googling and linking it back.
Because I have a feeling this is going to be a fun week!
But it's also a week where people are likely to have similar entries. What are you going to do to make yourself stand out from the crowd?
and I can't wait until people start googling and linking it back.
Because I have a feeling this is going to be a fun week!
But it's also a week where people are likely to have similar entries. What are you going to do to make yourself stand out from the crowd?
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I wanted to suggest this for a topic;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruin_value
But then I read a little further and was like no Hitler no.
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Wtf is this topic
(Ten seconds of googling)
Oh Lololol
And I have no idea how I'm gonna stand out amongst the crowd, but I definitely see this as a similar approach week across the board. :)
Now to sleep on this topic.
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I think there are a lot of places to go with this. Underlying the prompt is the concept of being misunderstood and of how language is strange.
I kinda know what I want to do but it's weird and dystopia-y and has large dead fish. >_>
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Oh, there definitely are. I took the abstract idea this morning and I think I have something to work with. Aside from the concept of being misunderstood and how language is strange, there is also the idea of correcting something that doesn't need to be corrected. :)
I think that idea already sounds like a winner -- go for it. ;)
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You can write about "Damn you, autocorrect!" or you can write about someone jumping the gun and trying to correct a mistake that isn't a mistake at all. :)
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And going a bit further, we also have "jumping to conclusions", and "not listening properly" and "miscommunication" not far from that.
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Of course, I expect I'll have all of 15 minutes to write an entry this week (down from last week's 20 minutes), so I'll be lucky if any word in the entry is spelled correctly.
Which would be pretty mean, writing an entry where every single word was deliberately misspelled. I can hear pedants whimpering already!
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(Scary, though, to be the first person to submit, even if it's still in pseudo-draft form.)
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How weird. ;)
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Jeez...
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I much prefer more open-ended topics, and it feels like we've had a shortage of them this season!
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because far be it from me to say anything about sucky topics
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NOW MOVE ALONG
(pick up that can)
;)
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You can go as literal, or as free-form, as you feel comfortable going with it.
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For others, I'm sure it's the opposite.
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This does seem like a fun topic in its own way... hopefully I'll think of something! I do still have a cute "Cupertino" saved on my phone, from a text between myself and my housemate. It might inspire me to something, we'll see.
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And to Andy's
and
I to Omniscent
(it absolutely hates one-letter words in general and keeps replacing them with trash, but this was priceless).
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The Cupertino effect is the tendency of a spell checker to suggest or autocorrect with incorrect words to replace misspelled words and words not in its dictionary.
This term refers to the unhyphenated English word "cooperation" often being changed to "Cupertino" by older spellcheckers with dictionaries containing only the hyphenated variant, "co-operation".[1] Cupertino is notable for being the home of Apple Inc.
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My first thought? Don't take this topic literally.
Second thought? If you don't take it literally, there are possibilities with it. I have an idea myself. Now I just have to find the time to write it :p
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-any malfunctioning machinery that causes illogical but regular aberrations ('cause spell check, if it is not being 'trained' in the process, will go on replacing the same words with the same ones);
- translator's false friends. Because while this spell check business happens in every language, the Cupertino thing is specific to English, and if you don't know it is called thus, you won't be able to translate it correctly.
My favourite example of this would be what you say when someone sneezes.
In English, it's "Bless you" (and remember the fairy tale where devil took his young fool helper to a wedding telling him he was going after his bride. But the bride was the actual bride at the wedding, and she kept sneezing quietly and had she sneezed thrice without anyone saying "Bless you", the devil would've taken her. But the young fool couldn't do it and said "Bless you" himself, thus ending his service for the devil, and falling from the rafters into the crowd, but saving the bride.)
In Russian, it's "Bud'te zdovorovy", "Your health", or "Be healthy".
In French, it's "A vos souhaits", "Make a wish", or "To your wishes".
-and then the whole nasty business of who made which discovery first, and whose name it should carry. That is such a tug-of-war sometimes, with invented earlier achievements that should indicate it was your country first. But the naming does not always work this way, with giving the discovery the name of someone who was there second or third.
Here is an example of the reverse. It was the German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen who discovered X-rays. And in most countries they are X-rays. Yet in Russia, they are known
properly, as Röntgen rays.Just food for thought.
Any other ideas? :)
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Here's something I found while researching .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OonDPGwAyfQ
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guys
GUYS
I got it
What if
Here me out here
What if
we
wait for it
What if we
interpreted the topic as a misinterpretation of the topic
Just write about damn word we want that starts with "c"
Guys
And then post it with WHOOPS MISSPELLED
:D
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I like this idea.
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- a dystopia where mass arrests are happening because someone spell checked the arrest warrant, and corrected the name of some terrorist group into the name of some legitimate group or hobby.
- A world where the Cupertino effect combines with the Cassandra effect. Everything that the spellchecker tries to say is some terrible truth.
- the setup for a caper movie, where the opening scene of the movie is someone holding their hands up in front of a room full of mobsters, and it starts off with "I bet you're wondering how this happened. I know I am, well, let me tell you about the Cupertino Effect".
Thanks to http://confusionest.com/ !
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How does human communication break when an intermediary is involved?
The inclination is to go digital because this seems to be a digital era problem, but we can really go wherever we want with it just as long as some breakdown of communication exists when a middle man or thing is involved. I would like to read about babel fish troubles, especially having to adjust the fish for best effect. (Edit: Thanks to Sobota (http://sobota.livejournal.com/463698.html) for getting me close enough. I wrote this before I read that.)
Which of these would be more interesting to read?
1.) A teacher faces complete and utter linguistic discombobulation as students slip into auto-aural-correct mode.
2.) The first American president living with muteness sends odd and surreal demands through his text-to-speech device.
3.) The promotional for the "Post Human" thought-to-action movement goes awry when the promoter's inner most thoughts are poorly translated.