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Remote Island Adopts Dothraki Language

Posted by samzenpus on from the it-is-known dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The tiny island of Tristan da Cunha is officially the most remote inhabited archipelago in the world with few connections to the outside and access only by sea when the notoriously stormy south Atlantic co-operates which is not often. Entertainment options are limited and LARPing in Game of Thrones style has become massively popular, so much so that the islanders have declared Dothraki to be an official language, alongside English."

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  1. This article? by Dwedit · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    You mean this article isn't already in the Dothraki Language?

    1. Re:This article? by neminem · · Score: 2, Funny

      Nah, I'm pretty sure it's just Welsh.

  2. ROT13 by hack++slash · · Score: 4, Informative

    Enough with the fucking retarded ROT13 shite, turn it ff already.

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    1. Re:ROT13 by Hentes · · Score: 3, Informative

      You're not missing out on anything, believe me.

    2. Re:ROT13 by avandesande · · Score: 2

      Jokes don't get funnier by repeating them.... brevity(and subtlety) is the soul of wit.

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    3. Re:ROT13 by Mashiki · · Score: 3, Informative

      You're not missing out on anything, believe me.

      Actually I think it might be improving the quality content of the site.

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    4. Re:ROT13 by AmazingRuss · · Score: 1

      Looking at it makes my face hurt.

    5. Re:ROT13 by mrjb · · Score: 1

      Personally, I find it less annoying than those ponies a few years back.

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    6. Re:ROT13 by houghi · · Score: 1

      This is your punishment for reading /. on April 1st. I think it is the best. I hope that for next year they say they close the site and not post anything at all.

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    7. Re:ROT13 by T-Kir · · Score: 2

      This actually makes me just wish they'd stick with OMG! Ponies!!! for the day.

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    8. Re:ROT13 by cervesaebraciator · · Score: 1

      After this, few will see the joke next year because few will bother visiting the site. Maybe it's all an elaborate scheme to reduce the number of "days read in a row" awards they hand out. Those things get expensive.

    9. Re:ROT13 by pushing-robot · · Score: 4, Funny

      I was pretty let down by Slashdot last year—I mean, no April Fools jokes at all? It couldn't get any worse.

      But this year I was impressed, because they proved it could.

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    10. Re:ROT13 by chrism238 · · Score: 1

      Traditionally, an April Fool's joke played after 12noon turns the 'fool' back on the originator. Perhaps we just have to wait 30 more minutes for Hawaii?

    11. Re:ROT13 by desdinova+216 · · Score: 1

      I actually liked the mad-Libs better

    12. Re:ROT13 by Jarik+C-Bol · · Score: 2

      this. Also, we need to cancel april fools day from now on on the internet.

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    13. Re:ROT13 by Jarik+C-Bol · · Score: 1

      No, our punishment for april fools day is later in the week, when the associated press runs some of the bullshit from today as a real news story. (In their grand tradition of not paying attention to what the hell they are doing.)

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    14. Re:ROT13 by CptNerd · · Score: 1

      Hah!

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    15. Re:ROT13 by ArsonSmith · · Score: 2

      Fewer typo's and grammar errors at least.

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    16. Re:ROT13 by ArsonSmith · · Score: 1

      Family Guy proves you wrong....or right. I'm not sure which.

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    17. Re:ROT13 by roman_mir · · Score: 1

      Oh, and remember, next Friday is a Hawaiian shirt day.

      Doesn't it look like Lumbergh is running /.?

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    18. Re:ROT13 by tqk · · Score: 1

      Enough with the fucking retarded ROT13 shite, turn it ff already.

      I'm not sure what's funnier; seeing all you whiners kvetch about rot13 all day, or the fact that you got modded +5 Informative for that.

      Slashdot, you may have outdone yourselves today.

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  3. Cthonic. by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!"

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    1. Re:Cthonic. by gallondr00nk · · Score: 4, Funny

      "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!"

      O R'LYEH?

    2. Re:Cthonic. by RDW · · Score: 3, Funny

      There's an Easter egg at rot13.com - if you cypher that text it actually gives you the rot13 of "In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming".

    3. Re:Cthonic. by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 1

      Thanks! Worth knowing.

      I guess great minds really DO think alike! As do trivial ones... ;-)

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    4. Re:Cthonic. by RDW · · Score: 1

      Ncevy sbby! - Alneyngubgrc.

  4. Invasion by theduk3 · · Score: 1

    I for one would welcome a Dothraki invasion by those islanders. I look forward to shivering at the mere mention of our name, looting, pillaging and wreaking havoc. As long as I'm back home in time to watch the next Game of Thrones episode, that is.

    1. Re:Invasion by bfandreas · · Score: 1

      So does that mean they have given up on strolling over their island pretending to be Arthur Gordon Pym? Good on them. You can't live out your whole life as a fantasy.

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    2. Re:Invasion by Kittenman · · Score: 1

      So does that mean they have given up on strolling over their island pretending to be Arthur Gordon Pym? Good on them. You can't live out your whole life as a fantasy.

      Of Nantucket? I'm here for you....

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    3. Re:Invasion by bfandreas · · Score: 1

      Have you read the sequel by Jules Verne? It takes a Frenchman to untangle the mess an American left. Still haven't got a clue what that was about. Neither had Verne.
      (Apart from the obvious escalation of crisis after crisis in a dead-end version of a Bildungsroman)

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  5. Case study in overkill by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    If sites like Hacker News are taking off, it's cause editors of /. don't understand their readers.

    This gag was barely funny the first time. Now it just reminds me what a sad fossil this site is.

  6. Screw Ths by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Screw this. I liked the OMG!111!! PONIES!!!111 joke from a few years ago better.

  7. Sigh! by Alejux · · Score: 2

    I can't wait for this day to be over!

    1. Re:Sigh! by agm · · Score: 1

      It already is over (it's noon on the 2nd here) and yet the ROT13 thing persists. They're a full 24 hours late. Idiots.

  8. Re:In case you don't feel like decrypting by Austerity+Empowers · · Score: 4, Funny

    As someone who lived on Staten Island most of his life, I can say for certain the native language there is not Dothraki, nor is that commonly spoken there as to know about it you'd have to be able to read. The usual dialect spoken there sounds a lot like "HAYHAYVINNIEMYMAN! Howyadoon,longtimenosee, youan fuckin Joey dont fuckin come out no more!", which is basically the formal way of saying "Hello, I'm about to punch you on the back."

  9. Fucking stupid slashdot janitors by Gordonjcp · · Score: 1

    The ROT13 thing was funny once. It is now just irritating.

    Please stop being such stupid unfunny fuckwits.

  10. Re:Stupid and impossible on an island. by viperidaenz · · Score: 1

    They still got on a boat to follow their Khaleesi.

  11. Fuck this. by TeknoHog · · Score: 2

    It's already April 2nd here in Linland.

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  12. ROT13 has to go by alphad0g · · Score: 1

    I like the humorous stories, but clicking 3 times to get to them has to go. Kill the ROT13 part..... I guess i need to stay away until tomorrow.

  13. I hate April 1st!!!!!! CAN THE ENCRYPTION!!!!!!! by Grayhand · · Score: 1

    It's a news site! Bite me!!!!! I may or may not check back tomorrow!!!! What is it with everyone trying to piss off users????? It's not cute it's childish! Here's an April 2nd joke I can suggest for all users, DON'T LOG ON!

  14. Interesting place by xaxa · · Score: 2

    This island, and the "nearby" St Helena, are interesting places.

    One of my colleagues is from St Helena, population about 4000. She grew up on the island, and remoteness and cost of travel is so high that the first time she ever left it was age 18, to attend university in the UK. Both island groups are UK overseas territories, and receive British TV, news etc, but I'm not sure that's much preparation for actually living in a country where we call a settlement of 4000 people a "village".

    There remoteness also gives them unique flora and fauna

  15. Unmatched: OMG! Ponies! by ndogg · · Score: 2

    OMG! Ponies! is still the best April Fools Slashdot has ever done. I do wish they would at least repeat it.

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    1. Re:Unmatched: OMG! Ponies! by D'Arque+Bishop · · Score: 1

      That wasn't a joke. That was a prophecy.

    2. Re:Unmatched: OMG! Ponies! by Em+Adespoton · · Score: 1

      Interestingly, while OMG Ponies! is on-topic for the Dothraki, there's the huge question of how a language used solely by hydrophobes could possibly work as a functional language on an ISLAND....

    3. Re:Unmatched: OMG! Ponies! by Kethinov · · Score: 1

      Alas ye olde pinkdot, we barely knew ye. Return unto us hither in a better life, anew.

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  16. Unsubscribing (was: Re:ROT13) by grahamtriggs · · Score: 1

    I only keep up with Slashdot via the RSS feed.

    The stupid decision to ROT13 everything as a joke (which has gone on far too long anyway), makes the RSS feed entirely unusable. It basically makes my decision much easier - I'll unsubscribe from the RSS feed. Which basically means I'll see articles / visit this site way, way less frequently in the future.

  17. Joke? by uvajed_ekil · · Score: 1

    Was this supposed to be funny? I thought it was April Fools' Day, not April Annoying Stupid Shit Day (AASS Day).

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  18. ORFG NCEVY SBBYF RIRE9 XRRC HC GUR TBBQ JBEX by UK+Boz · · Score: 1

    ORFG NCEVY SBBYF RIRE9 XRRC HC GUR TBBQ JBEX

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  19. I see no problem with this, as long as... by fyngyrz · · Score: 2

    ...we don't allow them to have ships.

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  20. Please let this not be an AFD joke by kerohazel · · Score: 1

    "they have taken to large scale LARPing across the entire archipelago with pretty much the entire population taking part."

    Until this very moment, I never thought I could use the word "LARP" and "cool" in the same sentence, but this sounds pretty cool.

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    1. Re:Please let this not be an AFD joke by slashmojo · · Score: 1

      Does indeed sound like it could be a blast.. not that I've ever tried LARPing but still, if they have dragons AND women (not bearded men in a medieval dress) then I am there.. maybe.