Reasons why I love the Board, number infinity

[bookish_dragon]

Watch two intellectuals completely miss the point of LotR:FotR. Noam Chomsky, whom I know mainly as a linguist(?) and a Howard Zinn, whom I've never heard of. Whether this is real or not is, for me, completely besides the point. It's too funny regardless.

One thing though: I doubt Black Speech is Orcish. But I could be wrong.

Edit: so it's not real. Which I might have guessed anyway, but I still found it funny. See boz4pm's comment for more on Chomsky. :)

Comments

[huinesoron.livejournal.com]

Black Speech is not Orcish (although the orcs do use a few corrupted words), 'Orc' doesn't come from 'tark' (it comes from the elvish urqu, while tark is an Orcish corruption of 'tarkil', meaning 'man of the West, Numenorean'), and all in all, there were enough silly mistakes in there that I'm sure it's not real. But, as you say, that's completely beside the point.

[yattara.livejournal.com]

That is what I thought, yes. Thanks for the rest of the info, languages aren't my strong point.