Talk Like An x Day
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Yeah I'd be up for Viking day, or some kind of British Day, but what I'd really like is:
Talk like a "Noir character or Hard-boiled Detective Day!" but instead of an internal monologue you say it all out loud. Aim for long winding sentences and contrived metaphors or similes.
"I clicked on the Off-Topic Discussion thread, where it would lead me I didn't know, all I knew was that I it lead where I needed to go. Once I was inside I began looking around, it was a darkly lit thread, a madhouse with suggestions thrown left and right. Like an intricate spiders web, strands tangled up all who entered, except that the Spider was no mere insect, but the OP Purple Rain... the corrupt core of the apple that was the Escapist."
Or in everyday situations:
"I hadn't slept, the case was troubling me and it was early morning. I walked up to the counter, the dame smiled at me although beneath that happy exterior she looked like trouble. 'Can I take your order?' she asked cheerfully. She looked like so innocent, at odds with her dingy surroundings, at odds with this city... blonde hair swept up into a hair net, blue eyes shining out from underneath her uniform cap. She looked like an angel, but could I trust her? After all I had seen many fallen angels... In the end I ordered a Sausage and Egg McMuffin, with a hash brown. As she turned a way from me the heavenly smile dropped from her face and too late, I realised that I'd made a mistake..."
Think Max Payne, Lewton, Hartigan or Sam Spade.
Talk like a "Noir character or Hard-boiled Detective Day!" but instead of an internal monologue you say it all out loud. Aim for long winding sentences and contrived metaphors or similes.
"I clicked on the Off-Topic Discussion thread, where it would lead me I didn't know, all I knew was that I it lead where I needed to go. Once I was inside I began looking around, it was a darkly lit thread, a madhouse with suggestions thrown left and right. Like an intricate spiders web, strands tangled up all who entered, except that the Spider was no mere insect, but the OP Purple Rain... the corrupt core of the apple that was the Escapist."
Or in everyday situations:
"I hadn't slept, the case was troubling me and it was early morning. I walked up to the counter, the dame smiled at me although beneath that happy exterior she looked like trouble. 'Can I take your order?' she asked cheerfully. She looked like so innocent, at odds with her dingy surroundings, at odds with this city... blonde hair swept up into a hair net, blue eyes shining out from underneath her uniform cap. She looked like an angel, but could I trust her? After all I had seen many fallen angels... In the end I ordered a Sausage and Egg McMuffin, with a hash brown. As she turned a way from me the heavenly smile dropped from her face and too late, I realised that I'd made a mistake..."
Think Max Payne, Lewton, Hartigan or Sam Spade.
Quite frankly that is one of the best ideas I have ever heard Armitage Shanks. Here, have a cigar.
The thread reeked of two-month-old sweat and tired writers nursing active thoughts, or bitter coffee. I could tell no one was paying attention to who all was coming and going, so I took a seat at the bar. "Talk like a wiseguy, huh?" The waiter barely noticed, the has-been shmuck. I could tell rain was going to fall like the pieces of the Berlin Wall if I waited around too long. "Yeah, I can get behind that talk like Noir broad." The dame looked like a million bucks, and I hoped I could get my fill. Time would tell, tick-tock...Armitage Shanks post=18.69936.675898 said:
Talk like a G-Man day would be so confoundedly difficult to do in text, but possibly the coolest sounding thing ever. If only, if only.
it amuses me that you have no idea how we talk. all those Australian stereotypes you love so much are actually made up by Americans for movies. not that you would know this, since you clearly dont know any AustraliansAries_Split post=18.69936.675175 said:
Ah, but being a New Zealander, I know tonnes of them.Sir_Substance post=18.69936.675983 said:it amuses me that you have no idea how we talk. all those Australian stereotypes you love so much are actually made up by Americans for movies. not that you would know this, since you clearly dont know any AustraliansAries_Split post=18.69936.675175 said:
And I would say that Aries_Split's post was right on the money.
And Aries_Split? You good sir may also have a cigar (I have alot of cigars to get rid of)
poleboy post=18.69936.675986 said:
Sorry for not knowing ancient Scandinavian languages.
I also second "Talk like a Hardboiled detective/G-Man Day".
If you've ever seen the indie movie Brick, that's pretty much how it's done. I love that movie, and I love the dialogue especially.
You could just say something in Danish. (brought to you by the powers of this 'interweb' thing everyone seems to be talking about)Ares Tyr post=18.69936.675993 said:
"Jer artig hr er ikke mand og jeg se frem til jeres demise henne ved den hænder i opgave regn's rotte knokle"
Translation: "you good sir are no gentleman and I look forward to your demise at the hands of Purple Rain's rat gimps"
Apparently there is no Danish word for demise.
You spoony bard.Aries_Split post=18.69936.675324 said:
Alternatively:
I will destroy everything! I will create a monument to non-existence!
You people sound like chapters from a self-help book!
I'm a general, not some opera floozy!
(Because Kefka and Celes both rock.)
I'm... Cloud. The master of my own illusionary world.
Don't forget that your skinny ass's workin' for AVALANCHE now!
I'd suggest "Talk Like a Nazi Scientist Day", but some might consider that gauche.
"Talk Like Mark Trail Day"?
"Talk Like Minsc Day"?
"Talk Like a Borg Day"?
"Talk Like Mark Trail Day"?
"Talk Like Minsc Day"?
"Talk Like a Borg Day"?
I'm telling you, the sooner we have "Talk like Bob Ross Day", the closer we are to world peace.
I'm also an advocate for "Talk In Shakespearian English Day" but in reference to modern terms. Like in that weird ass movie "Romeo + Juliet" with Leonardo DiCaprio. That'd be an interesting day indeed.
And I'd like to see "Talk like Leonidas Day" where everything is said with a threatening intensity befitting a warrior king.
"Me, and MY MEN, WARRIORS THEM ALL! (background *hoorah!*) Refuse to bow to you and your EIGHT DOLLAR COVER CHARGE!!!"
I'm also an advocate for "Talk In Shakespearian English Day" but in reference to modern terms. Like in that weird ass movie "Romeo + Juliet" with Leonardo DiCaprio. That'd be an interesting day indeed.
And I'd like to see "Talk like Leonidas Day" where everything is said with a threatening intensity befitting a warrior king.
"Me, and MY MEN, WARRIORS THEM ALL! (background *hoorah!*) Refuse to bow to you and your EIGHT DOLLAR COVER CHARGE!!!"
Aha, but since I am in fact culturally related to vikings, I can say whatever I want about them without being a racist. Much in the same way that a certain word beginning with n is merely a friendly joke when uttered by a person of african heritage.Ares Tyr post=18.69936.676022 said:
Vikings are smelly and their beards are tangled.
If you really want it, I can translate that other sentence into something that makes sense. For an enormous fee, of course.The Iron Ninja post=18.69936.676029 said: