Toon Forums NY, or Toon Forums East

[Nelson]

I'm just curious on just how many members live in the NY area, I live in Jackson Heights, Queens NY.
Who else lives in NY??? Then we can call our crew the "Toon Forums East"

[BobChief]

The only ones I've ever seen admit to it besides you are Steve (Sveven), Brian and Harley, all in Westchester County.

I'm NOT in that area (I can't watch Yankees games or anything else on MSG, that's how I know), but I'd like to be (Hudson County, NJ particularly)

[L00nE2n]

Well I'm from Long Island

[Thad Komorowski]

I live in the Niagara County area of NY.

-Thad:D

[Brian Cruz]

Yup, I'm in Westchester (Yonkers, to be exact). Harley actually lives in the Bronx (though we're only about 5 miles apart). There are several other New Yorkers on the other boards.

[Nelson]

Hey we should start a toon forums east, let each other know when any cartoon festivals occur in the NYC area, it would be great to meet each other.
And Brian, I hang in Yonkers a lot with my friends...

[hippety hopper]

Does England count as EAST?

[Sveven Dvorking]

Originally posted by hippety hopper
Does England count as EAST?

Umm, obviously not. This thread was about people in the Eastern United States. As for me, I was born in Mount Kisco and haven't moved, yet.

[Nelson]

So I guess we have a "Toon Forums NY" group, that's cool...

[William Padron]

I myself have been a current resident of Jackson Heights [Queens], NY since June 1998. Before moving into that neighborhood, I was a very longtime resident of upper Washington Heights [Manhattan] in New York City, where the "A" 8th Avenue Express subway train passes through its northbound journey uptown. I was just in the old neighborhood this morning already.

[Emmanuel Cruz]

What about New Jersey? We're in the east! You NY people and me are neighbors!

[Pietro]

Wait! What about Ohio? We're in the east as well!

-Pietro

[Sveven Dvorking]

Originally posted by Pietro
Wait! What about Ohio? We're in the east as well!

-Pietro

Ohio is several hundred miles inland, so I don't think that would count.

[Nelson]

So we have it...We (the people on the east)will be known as TOON FORUMS EAST...
Now lets see if we have a TOON FORUMS SOUTH, TOON FORUMS WEST, TOON FORUMS MID-SOUTH, and many more...

[daftchris]

Well, I'm most certainly "east". But being a thousand or so miles south, I guess I can't be a part of your little club.

Toon Forums South East. Well, you can't be in my club either. :p

[happyheathen]

Originally posted by daftchris
Well, I'm most certainly "east". But being a thousand or so miles south, I guess I can't be a part of your little club.

Toon Forums South East. Well, you can't be in my club either. :p

Now we can start designing flags, selecting anthems (I dibs 'California, Here I Come' and 'San Francisco')

maybe, in a few years, we can have a war! Doesn't that sound wonderful?

that little old cynic, ME

[Sogturtle]

Originally posted by Happyheathen

"Now we can start designing flags, selecting anthems (I dibs 'California, Here I Come' and 'San Francisco')

maybe, in a few years, we can have a war! Doesn't that sound wonderful?"

Happyheathen~

You DO know that since we're both westerners, that would put us on the same side...;) ;) ;)

[happyheathen]

Originally posted by Sogturtle

Happyheathen~

You DO know that since we're both westerners, that would us on the same side...;) ;) ;)

Hell, there's a downside to EVERYTHING!!!

The important thing is that those damn easterners/ south-easteners/northerners/mis-wester's DIE!!!

Then we CA's will get around to you AZ's...

[Jack]

The important thing is that those damn easterners/ south-easteners/northerners/mis-wester's DIE!!!
Whew, I don't think I'm any of those, so I get to live and point and laugh while you all have a war:D Unless I count as North too... What's a Mis Wester?

Then we CA's will get around to you AZ's...
Well that's not nice.....



Jack:D

[happyheathen]

Originally posted by Jack

Whew, I don't think I'm any of those, so I get to live and point and laugh while you all have a war:D Unless I count as North too... What's a Mis Wester?

Well that's not nice.....



Jack:D

Make that 'Mid-Westers', as in WI...

[Jack]

Make that 'Mid-Westers', as in WI...
Well, I'll bet WIs can beat CAs, as well as the rest of the letters. W is like two Vs put together, so that's double the power of your avarage V, and twice the "V for Victory" than any old C or A. V is pretty fierce too! I is a noble letter too, it can be pointy, and poke your eye out like the bow and arrow I tried to make in 4th grade almost did, but I just had to wear an eyepatch for a few days and everything was fine. I still tried to make another bow and arrow, but the sticks would break and I had a fear of having my eye poked out. Anyway, tootie frootie, tootie frootie and I wann-a whip-a cream-a and a wal-a nuts-a. I may be a loaner, everyone has heard the phraise "There's no I in team." but I can tell you that there IS an I in teamies. So there.

So, anyone want to start a "Toon Forums Everyplace Else?"


Jack:D
"We'll teach those hatches!"

[happyheathen]

Originally posted by Jack

...W is like two Vs put together

Jack:D
"We'll teach those hatches!"

Actually, 'W' is pronounced 'double-u' (it is the most recent addition to the english alphabet (1880's, if ever-failing memory serves)).

Now -

Why isn't it written as UU? Why 'VV' ?

(so, my mother was an english teacher - sue me)

[Jack]

I don't think the Romans had a U, so they used V for U and V both. They put two Vs to make W, but they sometimes wrote it like UU so it became known as "double U," just to take a wild guess....

Cursive Ws look like UU....

[happyheathen]

Originally posted by Jack
I don't think the Romans had a U, so they used V for U and V both. They put two Vs to make W, but they sometimes wrote it like UU so it became known as "double U," just to take a wild guess....

Cursive Ws look like UU....

Latin did not have a 'U' sound - in a pathetic (see below) attempt to look 'classical' some english-speaking twits took to using the 'V' whenever a word had a 'U' - ever see an 'AVDITORIUM'?

The actual sound of the 'w' was best described as a 'double u', and that is how it was written (by twits who wanted it to look 'classical')

why it is pathetic for english to try to look like latin:

english is a mongrel language - Greek, Latin, Anglo, Saxon (read: French, read: gutter latin) mixed with Hebrew, Arabic, Hindi, Sanscrit, and just about every other language contributed.

Languages derived from Latin are known as 'Romance' languages. For them (Itailian, Spanish, French, et al) to try to masquerade as Latin is one thing, BUT ENGLISH??!! it is a TEUTONIC language, NOT a Romance language, so who's kidding who?

[daftchris]

Now we can start designing flags, selecting anthems (I dibs 'California, Here I Come' and 'San Francisco')
maybe, in a few years, we can have a war! Doesn't that sound wonderful?


No. I live in Florida, and it's a crappy state to defend. Ive seen Bugs Bunny just cut the whole thing off. If war breaks out I'm not risking being sent into the Atlantic.

Actually mine was a response to the "I live in X, do I count?" and the "No, you're Y miles away, so... no" posts.

[Sogturtle]

Christine~

Don't worry... After Happyheathen Dave attempts to wipe us all out, then Jack and I and the other kind, compassionate cartoony survivors will throw you a rope before Florida hits the major sea-traffic in the Atlantic ;)

[Sogturtle]

originally posted by Happyheathen:

"Latin did not have a 'U' sound - in a pathetic (see below) attempt to look 'classical' some english-speaking twits took to using the 'V' whenever a word had a 'U' - ever see an 'AVDITORIUM'?

The actual sound of the 'w' was best described as a 'double u', and that is how it was written (by twits who wanted it to look 'classical')

why it is pathetic for english to try to look like latin:

english is a mongrel language - Greek, Latin, Anglo, Saxon (read: French, read: gutter latin) mixed with Hebrew, Arabic, Hindi, Sanscrit, and just about every other language contributed.

Languages derived from Latin are known as 'Romance' languages. For them (Itailian, Spanish, French, et al) to try to masquerade as Latin is one thing, BUT ENGLISH??!! it is a TEUTONIC language, NOT a Romance language, so who's kidding who?"

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Ya know Dave we're REALLY off topic with this one!!!
The synthetic-letter "W" in English actually took the place of another letter called "wen", which made the identical sound. Since the Roman/Latins had borrowed the Greek/Etruscan alphabet it was passed on to almost all European nations. The "Latin Alphabet" took the place of the ancient Germanic Runic alphabet. Runes looked like the hash marks used for counting (and were written/inscribed on tree bark and occasionally stone). The catch came because Germanic English (Anglo-Saxon) had more consonantal sounds than Latin. Amongst them the two separate "TH" sounds, and the "V" sound. Latin lacked all three of those consonants (yes, so "Vini, vidi, vici" was pronounced by Caesar with all "W" sounds). Soooo the Runic letters for "TH" (called "eth" and "thorn") and for "W", the "wen", were first borrowed and used in English. SOMEONE (eviedently a French scribe) eventually made the decision to dump those, and created the digraph "TH" and chose to try to use the Latin "U/V" to represent the "wen" sound.

Annnnnd Latin DID indeed have a "U" sound. An easy example?? The word for "one" was "unus", just like in Spanish "uno".

At one time ALL the Indo-European languages had a "W" sound but one by one all lost the sound... Except for English. We alone survive!!!.

As for English being a "mongrel language"... Linguists have demonstrated you can write WHOLE SENTENCES sometimes even entire paragraphs in Germanic Anglo-Saxon (no borrowed words). The most shocking example was seeing the 23rd Psalm written as such! Borrowing from French, Latin and Greek comes naturally because...

English (Anglo-Saxon) and its lost sister Frisian, are a part of the West Germanic branch of the Germanic (or Teutonic) family. The Germanic family was in turn a full-fledged sister of... (wanna guess??) The Italic family, best represented by Latin!!, and of Greek (not to mention Celtic, Balto-Slavic, Armenian, Albanian, Hittite, Indo-Iranian [Sanskrit & Persian & their descendants], and Tocharian). A shockingly high percent of the words we borrowed from French, Latin, or Greek were words that were cognate with native Germanic words. Examples "nephew" from Latin "nepos/nepot" merged with English "nefe/neve". Latin "aqua" was cognate to an Anglo-Saxon word "ea" (now found in the word "island", the "s" was inserted to make it look like "isle").
The native terms for family members (father, mother, brother, sister, exist happily beside their borrowed Latin twins (pater, mater, frater, soror) which are used in compound words. The Greek form of the word "foot" exists in pedestrian. The "ptero" (of "Pterodactyl") is the Greek twin of our word "feather"!!! The Greek term "hydor/hydro" (pronounced as "hudor") exists in words like "hydroelectric". We even borrowed words from French that they had inherited from their Frankish and Norse progenitors!! Such a word is "guerrilla", from the same as our word "war". Same goes for the color "blue" which merged with a nearly identical Anglo-Saxon word. Ditto for "guard" (equals "ward").

Thus it is nothing but normal for us to have borrowed words.

In reality almost the entire vocabulary of English descends from a single massively complex language known as "Indo-European". NO inscriptions have ever been found, but it has been reconstructed on the basis of the ancient languages... Gothic, Greek, Latin, Persian, and Sanskrit. The time-frame for its existence as a single unified language ends about 2000-1500 B.C. Our ancestors who spoke it did NOT call themselves by a single name (so much for "Aryan"!!!) Unless it was a general term meaning something like "folk" or was a patrynomic name. One other thing... They were EXTREMELY warlike and invaded and conquered wherever they chose to go. They conquered Sumerian Babylon, the Indus Valley civilization, Asian Minor, Crete, the Minoan civilizations. One branch of them (the Tocharians) invaded and settled in China!! And they were almost certainly the "Sea Peoples" who besieged Egypt. They took over all of Europe and forced the Basques up into the mountains. Intriquingly they chose to avoid massive invasions of Semitic territory... Almost like they had made an agreement not to...

[DR. BELCH]

--w is pronounced "dobleve" ("double v"; the v is pronounced as a "b"). And, yes, I've noticed that us look like vs on signs in LT's set in Rome, like the Freleng short with Yosemite Sam the centurion.
I've got a linguistics chart someplace that divides language into a myriad of subgroups...rather like a family tree with, as someone here notes, its root in one great Pangea-like tongue and about ten million branches (some living, some dead).
My former zo teacher noted once that it's impossible to say "I love you" in German without spitting all over the other person. http://www.3dpcgames.com/cwm/s/contrib/xerx/MODhappyjayn.gif http://www.contrabandent.com/pez/contrib/xerx/happyhitler.gifMakes you wonder how Hitler ever got any....