20 Things Meme

[saphanibaal]

Ara. This is going around, so I might as well play with it.

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[saphanibaal]

I think it's because "I'd do it differently, but you labeled it your own variation," while inherently unobjectionable, carries connotations of... ah... non-appreciation for the "own variation," unlike, say, "I'd do it differently, but yours is interesting/internally consistent."

Have you a personal deuterocanon list posted at some community?

Out of curiosity, what did you find funny? My sense of humor doesn't always translate well, so I like to know where I got it right.

//What bugs me sometimes is the explanation that the gates put a common language into peoples heads, because we haven't seen any evidence of that on earth.//

On the other hand... granted, I'm much more of an SGA than an SG-1 person, but I had the impression that the gates in the Milky Way predated the ones in Pegasus. I theorize therefore that while the Pegasus gates give a common language, it was a later development. (Perhaps one or two of the Milky Way ones might have first implemented it, but...) Once everyone in Atlantis had a common language they knew by heart, it would make sense to use it among themselves, rather than run the risk of forgetting the English/German/Czech/Japanese for "gravity oscillator" or "appendix" at a critical moment -- and the tradition of representing a foreign language onscreen by English (perhaps with one or two foreign words thrown in for flavor) is old.

(Now, language in SG-1... I'm not ready to come up with a comprehensive theory for the general understanding in SG-1. Maybe if I'd actually seen more.)