Discussion (9)¬

1. Nick says:

   May 1, 2009 at 2:56 am

   Somebody is hiding an Attic Greek-to-English dic­tio­nary in their beard.
2. John says:

   May 1, 2009 at 2:59 am

   Shh­h­hhh
3. Elithrion says:

   May 1, 2009 at 3:51 am

   I don’t think Greek uses quite so many accents (or any, for that matter). It’s the future after all!
4. Dierna says:

   May 1, 2009 at 8:29 am

   So much for Latin being the uni­ver­sal lan­guage.
5. macsnafu says:

   May 1, 2009 at 8:52 am

   See, that’s what gets me about a lot of sci­ence fic­tion–the deus ex machina used for com­mu­ni­ca­tions and infor­ma­tion. Sure, it helps facil­i­tate the story, but if it actu­ally hap­pened in real­ity, Jen and this guy would prob­a­bly not be able to com­mu­ni­cate with each other at all. And for that matter, Time machine or not, they might never figure out exactly “when” they are, maybe not even where, although admit­tedly, a lot would depend upon how the time machine actu­ally works, how the machine man­ages to quan­tify and track time.

   Ah, but I’m just nit­pick­ing. Wait­ing with baited breath to see how the story goes…
6. Theplayer131 says:

   May 2, 2009 at 8:40 am

   Nice save! You just con­viced a poor old man that you’re some kind of E.T. that can con­struct a house within a second! So much better than telling him you can travel through time!
7. Colin says:

   May 3, 2009 at 3:06 pm

   @mac­snafu Sort of true, but then again if every episode of TNG was like “Darmok” it’d get old real fast.
8. Brady Kj says:

   May 9, 2009 at 2:27 pm

   In response to Elithrion’s com­ment about Greek not using accents, per­haps it’s a dif­fer­ent dialect of Greek. Maybe Viet­namese Greek?
9. Lupo says:

   May 11, 2009 at 5:11 am

   Who is he? Socrates? Demochri­tos?
   …it gets more inter­est­ing (and funny)…