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otheymzefedaykin

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I've forgotten, there was a franco-belgian techno band in the early 90's named Pleasure game. One of their hits in france and Belgium was "le Dormeur" ("the sleeper"), the track quoted the famous sentence "the sleeper must awaken !" in french "le dormeur doit se r

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piterdevries

piterdevries

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here's a spinoff to magic the gathering named space the convergence..

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=mtgcom/feature/391

look at the examples of cards at the near bottom of the page, find the card Neural Klaxon. the card shows a triangluar shaped device with a hole in the middle. the flavor text says : "this is a test. This is only a test" which obviously is similar to the agony box, except that the neural klaxon is triangular!

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nemafakei

nemafakei

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"Could you please explain that? As a non-native speaker I must have missed a point..."

The verbs are in the wrong person. You probably haven't picked up on this because Russian doesn't have the verb "to be" in the present finite.

The verb conjugates:

I am / We are

You are / You are

He, she, it is / They are

Therefore, "I are Dunecat" should be "I am Dunecat"

Note also that "controls" is third person singular (the he, she, or it form). Regular English verbs, unlike Russian and other languages, don't normally change their endings based on who's doing the action, but they do in the third person singular - in most cases, they just add an "s". You've obviously learnt to do it automatically, as I've never seen you do it wrong, but you're not aware of it. Hence, "he controls the spice" and "whoever controls the spice" are correct, but we should say "I control the spice", not "I controls the spice".

MrFlibble

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No no no, I noticed the wrong use of personal forms of course, but I don't know what stylistic functioning, if any, does it have - if it has been done intentionally ??? BTW, am I right to assume you're a linguist, Nema? I think some remark by a forum member (possibly Edric O) hinted that you're a linguist.

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TagDaze

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Hmm, well, it's a joke from 4chan. It started out with stuff like a cat looking very very cute, going "Is it can be hug tiem now plees?", which passed on its bad grammar on to a cat licking its paw with the caption "I has a flavor", and eventually ending up with Dunecat.

If you want to know more about various internet memes (which are in-jokes in all their forms, not just a picture, as pointed out earlier - that's called a macro), I encourage you to go to encyclopediadramatica.com. It's the repository for everything lulz on the internets.

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piterdevries

piterdevries

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in the movie "Get Smart" they used a Cone of Silence in a meeting.

A "cone of silence" is mentioned in the futuristic SF novel Dune, when Baron Harkonnen is having a private discussion with Count Fenring on Giedi Prime. (wiki)

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