Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

Labor camp

4 (20%)

List of choices (would you like to be killed by woodchipper, firing squad, gascambers...)

8 (40%)

Choose how to die (with restrictions, or course, no "I want to be nuked in the dining hall")

6 (30%)

Generic Lethal injection

1 (5%)

Electroshock

0 (0%)

Life in prison

0 (0%)

Other (Specify)

1 (5%)

No opinion

0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 20

[Corai]

That, or have all colonists take a mandatory vow of silence, and attempt to communicate with one another solely by facial expressions.

What in the case of emergency? If we get attacked I doubt we'll be able to warn other colonies about it with our face over the phone.

Edit: I vote we use german.

[WaffleEggnog]

Dwarves have Scottish accents, right? What about Scottish? Though Dwarves are originaly from German mythology, and German sound more dwarfy....

[OREOSOME]

German all the way, but i also believe we must develop some sort of code for our documents, Prehaps a mix of the languages from DF, except for elvish.

[Corai]

German all the way, but i also believe we must develop some sort of code for our documents, Prehaps a mix of the languages from DF, except for elvish.

No, we must use PURE elvish. They will never expect that we use elvish.

[WaffleEggnog]

German all the way, but i also believe we must develop some sort of code for our documents, Prehaps a mix of the languages from DF, except for elvish.

No, we must use PURE elvish. They will never expect that we use elvish.

I hate you so much right now.

[King DZA]

That, or have all colonists take a mandatory vow of silence, and attempt to communicate with one another solely by facial expressions.

What in the case of emergency? If we get attacked I doubt we'll be able to warn other colonies about it with our face over the phone.

Edit: I vote we use german.

Simple:
When we call someone, our face will be displayed on the built-in screen that will come standard with all communication devices. It's not like we don't already have the technology to accomplish such a thing.

[Corai]

Still, we would have to go up to EVERY LAST PERSON to tell them to get to a bunker. And what if we need to tell someone far away something? They won't be able to see our face.

[King DZA]

We'll just have have a built-in warning system on all communication devices as well. When shit starts to go down, the appropriate facial expression will begin to flash on all available screens, ensuring the vast majority of colonists are warned of the imminent danger.

if you need to talk to someone far away, just send them a text with a picture of your facial expression attached.

[Corai]

And if someone cracks and starts killing people? I doubt we'll be able to just make a face and the police show up.

... Are we seriously fighting over if we should talk/be mute?

[King DZA]

Now you're just being silly. You and I both know it would be far quicker to simply send a picture of your facial expression to the authorities than it would be to call them up and frantically attempt to explain the situation.

And no, we're not. we're having a civilized debate over the matter of communication between colonists.

[Corai]

What about those that are blind, have facial deformities or are missing parts of the face? How will we know  what they say, or how the blind understand what's going on?



-Edit-

Reading glasses, sunglasses, gas masks, helmets. All these will make it near-impossible to speak to other colonists.

[OREOSOME]

I have an idea. Dwarvish: civilian day to day stuff
Goblin: Military work.
Human: Yellow alert civvie stuff.
Elvish: Code red communications.

[King DZA]

What about those that are blind, have facial deformities or are missing parts of the face? How will we know  what they say, or how the blind understand what's going on?



-Edit-

Reading glasses, sunglasses, gas masks, helmets. All these will make it near-impossible to speak to other colonists.

Seeing all the other inventions we have planned, we might as well add "robotic eyes for the blind" to the list. With those who have damaged/deformed faces, I imagine it would be like talking to someone with speech problems. They may be harder to understand, but you should still be able to get at least the basic idea of what they're saying.

Perhaps with the exception of sunglasses, I doubt such eyeware would hinder communication too much. But if there were a piece of information that absolutely required ones eyes to be visible in order to express it, they could always simply take them off for a second.

We shall design all full-face helmets with the ability to display digital versions of basic facial expressions on their visors. And if you see people walking around with gas masks on for an unknown reason, that alone should be enough to tell you something is awry.

[Corai]

How will we speak to many at once? It would be terribly confusing to turn around, make a face, turn around again, make a face, turn BACK, make a face, go into a room and make a face, come back. It would be near-impossible to speak to many people at once. And in a workplace this would be terrible.

[WaffleEggnog]

How will we speak to many at once? It would be terribly confusing to turn around, make a face, turn around again, make a face, turn BACK, make a face, go into a room and make a face, come back. It would be near-impossible to speak to many people at once. And in a workplace this would be terrible.

Can we just scrap the idea of face lauguage? We have vocal cords for a reason.