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Why the fuck are six Star Trek TV series currently in some stage of production or development?
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Terasawa wrote: Fri Feb 05, 2021 3:52 pm Why the skreeonk are six Star Trek TV series currently in some stage of production or development?
Milking a series thats been going since the 60s for shared universe mass media potential works for the mouse, why not the mountain?
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anybody else remember then the Toho Kingdom podcast was a thing? that was good times.
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I'm doing a research project on the etymology of words in the English language. I've decided to focus my project on monsters.

Please list out any words that you associate with monsters. They can be nouns, adjectives and even verbs. Just no proper nouns or names. Here's what I have so far:

"Monster, Goliath, Leviathan, Creature, Beast, Demon, vampire, mummy, Zombie, Skeleton, thrall, Corpse, Dragon, Werewolf, Witch, Wizard, Kaiju, Cyclops, Behemoth, Titan, Golem, Horror, rotten, gigantic, undead, grotesque, "
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^ me back in middle school according to the other kids
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LSD Jellyfish wrote: Mon Feb 08, 2021 3:28 pm I'm doing a research project on the etymology of words in the English language. I've decided to focus my project on monsters.

Please list out any words that you associate with monsters. They can be nouns, adjectives and even verbs. Just no proper nouns or names. Here's what I have so far:

"Monster, Goliath, Leviathan, Creature, Beast, Demon, vampire, mummy, Zombie, Skeleton, thrall, Corpse, Dragon, Werewolf, Witch, Wizard, Kaiju, Cyclops, Behemoth, Titan, Golem, Horror, rotten, gigantic, undead, grotesque, "
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LSD Jellyfish wrote: Mon Feb 08, 2021 3:28 pm I'm doing a research project on the etymology of words in the English language. I've decided to focus my project on monsters.

Please list out any words that you associate with monsters. They can be nouns, adjectives and even verbs. Just no proper nouns or names. Here's what I have so far:

"Monster, Goliath, Leviathan, Creature, Beast, Demon, vampire, mummy, Zombie, Skeleton, thrall, Corpse, Dragon, Werewolf, Witch, Wizard, Kaiju, Cyclops, Behemoth, Titan, Golem, Horror, rotten, gigantic, undead, grotesque, "
Cryptid, bogeyman, boogie, shadow, devil, inhuman, humanoid, alien, terror, weird, ghoul, beasties, nightmare, slime, midnight, colossus, mutant, freak, fiend & hellion.

I hope that helps.

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Major sssspielberg! wrote: Mon Feb 08, 2021 4:01 pm
Will-o'-the-wisp? Hag?
Hmmm, both are interesting but I'm not so sure. Will-o-the-wisp might be too specific. Hag is alright, but I already have witch. Thank you though!

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LSD Jellyfish wrote: Mon Feb 08, 2021 3:28 pm I'm doing a research project on the etymology of words in the English language. I've decided to focus my project on monsters.

Please list out any words that you associate with monsters. They can be nouns, adjectives and even verbs. Just no proper nouns or names. Here's what I have so far:

"Monster, Goliath, Leviathan, Creature, Beast, Demon, vampire, mummy, Zombie, Skeleton, thrall, Corpse, Dragon, Werewolf, Witch, Wizard, Kaiju, Cyclops, Behemoth, Titan, Golem, Horror, rotten, gigantic, undead, grotesque, "
Cryptid, bogeyman, boogie, shadow, devil, inhuman, humanoid, alien, terror, weird, ghoul, beasties, nightmare, slime, midnight, colossus, mutant, freak, fiend & hellion.

I hope that helps.
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^ Here's a GREAT quote pertaining to Trolls that might work for you -
What a happiness this must have been seventy or eighty years ago and upwards, to those chosen few who had the good luck to be born on the eve of this festival of all festivals; when the whole earth was so overrun with ghosts, boggles, bloody-bones, spirits, demons, ignis fatui, brownies, bugbears, black dogs, specters, shellycoats, scarecrows, witches, wizards, barguests, Robin-Goodfellows, hags, night-bats, scrags, breaknecks, fantasms, hobgoblins, hobhoulards, boggy-boes, dobbies, hob-thrusts, fetches, kelpies, warlocks, mock-beggars, mum-pokers, Jemmy-burties, urchins, satyrs, pans, fauns, sirens, tritons, centaurs, calcars, nymphs, imps, incubuses, spoorns, men-in-the-oak, hell-wains, fire-drakes, kit-a-can-sticks, Tom-tumblers, melch-dicks, larrs, kitty-witches, hobby-lanthorns, Dick-a-Tuesdays, Elf-fires, Gyl-burnt-tales, knockers, elves, rawheads, Meg-with-the-wads, old-shocks, ouphs, pad-foots, pixies, pictrees, giants, dwarfs, Tom-pokers, tutgots, snapdragons, sprets, spunks, conjurers, thurses, spurns, tantarrabobs, swaithes, tints, tod-lowries, Jack-in-the-Wads, mormos, changelings, redcaps, yeth-hounds, colt-pixies, Tom-thumbs, black-bugs, boggarts, scar-bugs, shag-foals, hodge-pochers, hob-thrushes, bugs, bull-beggars, bygorns, bolls, caddies, bomen, brags, wraiths, waffs, flay-boggarts, fiends, gallytrots, imps, gytrashes, patches, hob-and-lanthorns, gringes, boguests, bonelesses, Peg-powlers, pucks, fays, kidnappers, gallybeggars, hudskins, nickers, madcaps, trolls, robinets, friars' lanthorns, silkies, cauld-lads, death-hearses, goblins, hob-headlesses, bugaboos, kows, or cowes, nickies, nacks necks, waiths, miffies, buckies, ghouls, sylphs, guests, swarths, freiths, freits, gy-carlins Gyre-carling, pigmies, chittifaces, nixies, Jinny-burnt-tails, dudmen, hell-hounds, dopple-gangers, boggleboes, bogies, redmen, portunes, grants, hobbits, hobgoblins, brown-men, cowies, dunnies, wirrikows, alholdes, mannikins, follets, korreds, lubberkins, cluricauns, kobolds, leprechauns, kors, mares, korreds, puckles korigans, sylvans, succubuses, blackmen, shadows, banshees, lian-hanshees, clabbernappers, Gabriel-hounds, mawkins, doubles, corpse lights or candles, scrats, mahounds, trows, gnomes, sprites, fates, fiends, sibyls, nicknevins, whitewomen, fairies, thrummy-caps, cutties, and nisses, and apparitions of every shape, make, form, fashion, kind and description, that there was not a village in England that had not its own peculiar ghost. Nay, every lone tenement, castle, or mansion-house, which could boast of any antiquity had its bogle, its specter, or its knocker. The churches, churchyards, and crossroads were all haunted. Every green lane had its boulder-stone on which an apparition kept watch at night. Every common had its circle of fairies belonging to it. And there was scarcely a shepherd to be met with who had not seen a spirit!
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Actually, old English language trailers would be a good source for some unlikely descriptions.
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Terasawa wrote: Thu Feb 18, 2021 12:42 pm Actually, old English language trailers would be a good source for some unlikely descriptions.
I dunno, the English -> Old English translator I found online couldn't even give me a translation of the words "unlikely descriptions."
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Remember when Toho Kingdom use to let users make their own film reviews and have it on the website along with the reviews by TK crew members?
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Would it be weird if I sometimes spoke my other languages here? In short bursts?

Manchmal habe ich einfach das Bedürfnis, Deutschland zu sprechen.
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VoyagerGoji wrote: Thu Feb 25, 2021 1:40 am Would it be weird if I sometimes spoke my other languages here? In short bursts?

Manchmal habe ich einfach das Bedürfnis, Deutschland zu sprechen.
I'm unaware of any language called "Deutschland."
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VoyagerGoji wrote: Thu Feb 25, 2021 1:40 am Would it be weird if I sometimes spoke my other languages here? In short bursts?
Considering this is a primarily English-speaking board, yeah a little bit.
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Terasawa wrote: Thu Feb 25, 2021 11:34 am
VoyagerGoji wrote: Thu Feb 25, 2021 1:40 am Would it be weird if I sometimes spoke my other languages here? In short bursts?

Manchmal habe ich einfach das Bedürfnis, Deutschland zu sprechen.
I'm unaware of any language called "Deutschland."
my tutor said sometimes we translate german to just germany. But yes, I really meant Deutsch.

It’s ok, I won’t speak anything foreign.
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VoyagerGoji wrote: Thu Feb 25, 2021 1:47 pm
Terasawa wrote: Thu Feb 25, 2021 11:34 am
VoyagerGoji wrote: Thu Feb 25, 2021 1:40 am Would it be weird if I sometimes spoke my other languages here? In short bursts?

Manchmal habe ich einfach das Bedürfnis, Deutschland zu sprechen.
I'm unaware of any language called "Deutschland."
my tutor said sometimes we translate german to just germany. But yes, I really meant Deutsch.

It’s ok, I won’t speak anything foreign.
Does your tutor natively speak German? I studied the language for four years and have used it on few occasions in the decade and change since; in all that time, I can't recall any example of the word "Deutschland" used to define the language itself, nor does that appear to be an acceptable use for the word as defined in the Duden and Langenscheidt dictionaries. Wiktionary doesn't define it that way, either.
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Terasawa wrote: Thu Feb 25, 2021 3:01 pm
VoyagerGoji wrote: Thu Feb 25, 2021 1:47 pm
Terasawa wrote: Thu Feb 25, 2021 11:34 am

I'm unaware of any language called "Deutschland."
my tutor said sometimes we translate german to just germany. But yes, I really meant Deutsch.

It’s ok, I won’t speak anything foreign.
Does your tutor natively speak German? I studied the language for four years and have used it on few occasions in the decade and change since; in all that time, I can't recall any example of the word "Deutschland" used to define the language itself, nor does that appear to be an acceptable use for the word as defined in the Duden and Langenscheidt dictionaries. Wiktionary doesn't define it that way, either.
I believe my tutor to natively speak Austrian Standard German.
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"Deutschland" is the German name for the nation of Germany, just like "Nippon" is the Japanese name for the nation of Japan.

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