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Nice project: I don't want to add anything you don't like, but here is my thoughts:
Nice project: I don't want to add anything you don't like, but here is my thoughts:
*"AaAaAaAaAaAaA!!! I'm saving the best for last!" - One scorpion goes into his mouth and I guess he likes to eat them.
*"AaAaAaAaAaAaA!!! I'm saving the best for last!" - One scorpion goes into his mouth and I guess he likes to eat them.
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Thoughts? {{User:Religious Corn/sig}} 00:42, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
Thoughts? {{User:Religious Corn/sig}} 00:42, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
:I can't make a logical rebuttal to an argument that says "it just sounds valid even though the two sentences don't mean the same thing". This is indicative of the general problem that exists with this page, which we have been discussing up above. Homsar says something totally crazy, someone comes up with some metaphorical-esque interpretation, and everyone else looks at it and goes "oh, that makes sense". It reminds me of modern art. Throw a bunch of paint-filled balloons at a canvas, then tell everyone the picture represents "the chaos within" or some such, and people will buy it. Well I don't buy it, and i seriously think the concept of this page needs revisiting. {{User:DeFender1031/sig}} 04:49, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
:I can't make a logical rebuttal to an argument that says "it just sounds valid even though the two sentences don't mean the same thing". This is indicative of the general problem that exists with this page, which we have been discussing up above. Homsar says something totally crazy, someone comes up with some metaphorical-esque interpretation, and everyone else looks at it and goes "oh, that makes sense". It reminds me of modern art. Throw a bunch of paint-filled balloons at a canvas, then tell everyone the picture represents "the chaos within" or some such, and people will buy it. Well I don't buy it, and i seriously think the concept of this page needs revisiting. {{User:DeFender1031/sig}} 04:49, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
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:If I may add to this, I would like to point out that "I left my bacon at the tennis patch," sounds like a typical excuse for going elsewhere in fiction, like "I gotta go...walk...my fish," or "I've got a, um...food...in the oven," or "I gotta go invent chocolate toothpaste." So, if anything, it's just an excuse to leave...maybe. {{User:FCUTRERSTUD/sig}}
 
== Let's take this in another direction ==
== Let's take this in another direction ==
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:Somehow, that strikes me as... exactly the same thing. Moreover, everything is *still* open to interpretation; what may "make sense" to one person, may not to another. Hence the conflicts we're having. Somehow, I can't see this setup placating Jay, either. -{{User:YK/sig}} 03:20, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
:Somehow, that strikes me as... exactly the same thing. Moreover, everything is *still* open to interpretation; what may "make sense" to one person, may not to another. Hence the conflicts we're having. Somehow, I can't see this setup placating Jay, either. -{{User:YK/sig}} 03:20, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
::This is just a rearrangement of the same content. Reorganization is not a solution if the problem is with the content itself rather than the organization of the content. {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 23:48, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
::This is just a rearrangement of the same content. Reorganization is not a solution if the problem is with the content itself rather than the organization of the content. {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 23:48, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
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:::The first, like, six entries in this discussion are largely my opinion, so I don't really have anything to add besides "let's get rid of this thing already ._.". --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]] 07:43, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
 
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:::: I personally find this article very useful. It is interesting, in-depth, too long to merged and well researched. While some sentances that are entire word salads are explained by Wild Mass Guessings, I feel that the article as a whole is worthwhile and good the way it is. I'm not ready to leave my bacon on this yet.
 
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:::: A solution: narrow our scope of "intelligible". If it makes sense in context, it is intelligeble. If it involves coherent nicknames, like That Rhinorsorus, it is intelligible. If we assume that being the local leeroy means being ready to fight, I say we hit ourselves with a brick. Therefore, I conclude that this page needs to '''narrow the scope of "sense-make"''', as that would make this the facts and only the facts.--[[User:Jellote|Jellote wuz here]] 00:57, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
 
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::::: But to do that would either necessitate a name change or leave a lot of blank/generic "irrelevant" entries. Fortunately, I've already said that I'd be fine with a scaled-down-to-reasonable [[Homsar making sense]], which is basically what you're suggesting (correct me if I'm wrong). --{{User:Jay/sig}} 02:15, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
 
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:::: Jellote and Jay, I like your ideas. They make sense to me. Maybe we could split this page up into Homsar Making Sense, using Jellote's idea, and then we could still leave this page and organize the rest of the entries according to how much they make sense. {{User:Religious Corn/sig}} 18:25, 12 December 2009 (UTC)
 
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:::::No, you basically just suggested the same thing. Once again, how much sense his lines make is entirely debatable. What was suggested is not simply to reorganize the page based on "how much Homsar's lines make sense"; it's been noted already that some people think it "makes sense" that "leaving one's bacon in the tennis patch" means "surrendered and left for important reasons", despite having *no* connection to that concept whatsoever. No, the idea here is to get *rid* of all the baseless speculation, and simply narrow it down to the few times in which Homsar has made *complete* sense. As it stands, this page is entirely un-encyclopedic, and frankly, borders on fanstuff. It basically boils down to the fact that this page has only been allowed to exist as long as it has because Homsar is everyone's favorite character; he seems to get a surprising amount of leeway on this wiki, on the whole, I've noticed. I don't like this. He's weird, he's funny, he's awesome, but he's not the central focus of Homestar Runner, and I do not think he deserves the special treatment we've been giving him. -{{User:YK/sig}} 19:41, 23 December 2009 (UTC)
 
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So, after all this discussion: here's what's come out of this: Consensus is decidedly against this article remaining as is. More than one person has spoken favourably of the idea of an article about Homsar making complete sense, though. Others have spoken of not wanting this article to completely die. And in fact, this article actually originated in the userspace, and a [[User:DorianGray/Analysis_of_Senor_Cardgage%27s_Speech_Patterns|strikingly similar page]] is still in userspace today drawing no real objections. It seems to me, therefore, that the proper solution for this article is to put it in the userspace as well. DorianGray has told me he's willing to host this page in his userspace, so I am moving it there. In light of the discussion, it would be appropriate to make the [[Homsar Making Sense]] page some have supported, but I'll leave that to others, since I'm not really sure how this page would go down. {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 09:27, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
 
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:Finally not in the main namespace, and if it has to be in my userspace for that to happen, that's okay. =3 Thanks for moving it for me. And don't think I'm locking it or anything, <strike>ladies and gentlemen</strike> [[Flashforward|gentlemen and, like, two ladies]]. It's still totally open for anyone to edit it whenever you like. ''I'' sure won't be keeping it up-to-date very often. =3 --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]] 09:38, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
 
== Well, here is my opinion ==
== Well, here is my opinion ==
On the one hand, I could see how it would make sense to add this to Homsar's Page. But I for one think its just a bit too long to be added to Homsar's Page. So, maybe we should keep it. {{User:Crab Attack1999/sig}} 02:41, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
On the one hand, I could see how it would make sense to add this to Homsar's Page. But I for one think its just a bit too long to be added to Homsar's Page. So, maybe we should keep it. {{User:Crab Attack1999/sig}} 02:41, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
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== Deletion ==
 
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This article was around for a while; why was it moved out of the mainspace? [[User:RickTommy|RickTommy]] 21:56, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
 
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:There's a rather large discussion about it's move just a little up from here, in case you didn't see. {{User:StrongAwesome74/sig}} 22:10, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
 
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== SBCG4AP Doesn't Count. ==
 
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As far as I can see, most of the "nonsense" homsar quotes come from SBCG4AP. This is also one of the few times that a character has expressed outright confusion towards homsar's speech. Considering that the Bros. Chaps were not the only writers for the games, I think we should consider adding a notice somewhere that SBCG4AP quotes have a tendency to make less sense than they do on the website because of having different writers, and stop speculating about what that nonsense could mean. [[Special:Contributions/66.51.249.18|66.51.249.18]] 00:33, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
 
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== Leroy ==
 
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Homsar calles himself a local leroy. In a lot of these forensics shows, they always talk about 'the local LEOs (law enforcement officer)' H-sar then calles someone 'officer' later. Connection, perhaps? [[Special:Contributions/98.111.92.154|98.111.92.154]] 23:32, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
 
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:Or maybe it's a reference to Leroy Jethro Gibbs from NCIS. {{User:DeFender1031/sig}} 08:30, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
 
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::Or maybe we should just ignore it. It's something random that Homsar said. We shouldn't make sense of it. Also, this was brought up above. --[[Special:Contributions/209.148.176.136|209.148.176.136]] 11:50, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
 
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== Pucker up, dice man! ==
 
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I've been thinking about this line a bit, and the more I think about it, the more this seems to make sense.
 
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Perhaps "Pucker Up, Dice Man" means "kiss my axx, risky man" (or a sound "no"). Pucker up and kiss my butt are fairly obvious (Or rather, pucker up to kiss my butt). A "dice man" could be a gambler, one who takes (foolish) risks. "I'm as upholstered as I want to be" could mean Homsar's comfortable with things the way they are.
 
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And, yes, I realise it ultimately gets translated anyway, but I'm still entertained by the opportunity to dissect this sentence.
 
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GenghisKhan44 [[Special:Contributions/97.121.71.81|97.121.71.81]] 07:51, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
 
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Oh, and your defense of Homsar's speech patterns reminds me a bit of the defence of Innocent Smith in G.K. Chesterton's "Manalive". Homsar seems guilty of word salad (or murder of the English language :3). But when we examine his statements closely, we see he is not breaking the English language. He is merely using it in an uncustomary way. ^.^ GK44[[Special:Contributions/97.121.71.81|97.121.71.81]] 08:05, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
 
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== And for that matter ==
 
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I don't take the SBCG4AP translations of Homsar's phrases as word of God (simply because some Telltale folks may have been involved in writing them). I think they might be the most direct way to say what Homsar says (or perhaps Strong Bad's interpretation of it), but I think a lot has been lost in the translation.
 
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'''"AaAaAaAaA, try some caked-on makeup from yesteryear!"'''
 
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"Caked-on makeup" could be the "sacred elemental artifacts" being buried in the ground. (After all, Strong Bad did dig up three of four of the artifacts, and Bubs might have procured that pottery shard from an archaeological excavation.) Yesteryear makes sense.
 
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So ultimately, "Try some caked on makeup from yesteryear" could be best translated as : " (Try to) dig up the buried ancient sacred artifacts."
 
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'''"Sign me up for soccer class, Debra!" '''
 
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I've thought about this one, too. The game translates "for soccer class" (IIRC) as "talking gibberish". We know Homsar is ultimately asking what the heck Strong Bad is talking about.
 
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"Debra", like "dice man" (hey, they both start with "d") is referring to Strong Bad.
 
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"Sign me up for soccer class" might be asking Strong Bad to teach Homsar what the "gibberish" means. This is only speculation, but perhaps Homsar is not good at soccer, and so thus Strong Bad's gibberish would be analogous to it (because he simply didn't get soccer, or this gibberish).
 
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So perhaps "Sign me up for soccer class, Debra!" could be Homsar's way of saying "Can you teach me what you're trying to say, Strong Bad?"
 
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GenghisKhan44[[Special:Contributions/97.121.71.81|97.121.71.81]] 08:40, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
 
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==Strong Bad's imagination==
 
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Why is the email different town the only one that mentions Homsar's appearance in that case being in Strong Bad's imagination? Since it's probably valid to assume that Homsar doesn't actually -have- his own TV show, and since Mount Ridesplace doesn't actually exist, shouldn't these receive the same notation, since they're presumably both set in Strong Bad's imagination as well?
 
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== A Healthy Piece of Real Estate ==
 
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I just realized that, in a certain context, Homsar's line from [[for kids]] makes perfect sense.
 
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When the "g" appears on screen, it takes up about one-eighth of the screen (not including the shadow). In terms of whatever else can be shown onscreen at the same time, the "g" does in fact take up a good deal of real estate. (By comparison, so does Homsar himself.)
 
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In this context, Homsar could be talking to whoever designed the graphics (or to the director), saying that the "g" is unnecessarily large. Alternatively, he could be trying to give the audience a truthful glimpse at the difficulties that go into the show's production ("...I'm ''not gonna lie'' to ya...").
 
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It's interesting how when the Brothers Chaps try to make Homsar's speech patterns nonsensical, the community can still tease an actual meaning from it. --{{User:Purple Wrench/sig}} 23:52, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
 
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== Update ==
 
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The last entry is from five years ago. Please update. [[Special:Contributions/76.102.80.126|76.102.80.126]] 18:12, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
 
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==Update==
 
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The last entry is from five years ago. Please update. [[User:Wolf O&#39;Donnel|Wolf O&#39;Donnel]] 08:40, 1 November 2021 (UTC)
 

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