Geeks at Nottingham

On Wednesdays at Isis, the place isn't a strip-club. Just a normal club.

Also, I think the Business Booze Cruise might have teamed up with the Economics Booze Cruise this year. I went to the Economics one last year - it was actually really good - but only because of the open bar . So I don't think you'll have a great time if you don't drink. The ticket should also include entry to Oceana at the end IIRC.

It was absolutely amazing, I met a great group of people but we were all so drunk we couldn't walk at the end, which isn't like me at all, and I currently feel like I never want to see a pint ever again lol

However, I lived to tell the tale (just) and we got through about £35 worth of drinks each so a good investment!

Omg. What songs/anime/manga do you like!? I hope you've seen Full Metal Alchemist *dies* That anime is the BEST but so sad T_T, and as for bands, I'm into Dir en Grey (Omg I saw them live in London last year), Gazette, Miyavi, X-Japan, Antique Cafe, Psycho le Cemu, Malice Mizer (a bit) and probably some others I've forgotten xD; I also like Korean and Chinese music a bit, but I don't know a lot about that. OMG YOU'RE CHINESE... I WILL BE GLOMPING YOU. OMG. >_>;

Omg, perhaps not 'whizz' lmao, but I'm a language fanatic. Omg. Just about every language? No, really. I did French A-level, and an Advanced Extension Award in it .. So I'm okay at French. I also love Japanese. And language on my 'to-do' list, which I enjoy reading about but am not seriously learning at the mo include: German, Mandarin (你好吗？我叫Adam,你叫什么？你是中国人吗?), Polish (Don't ask), Korean, Latin, Greek (Only because a friend is interested in it.. Plus the roots in English are interesting).. Yeah I think that's it xD;

Yay, geeky gathering! =D I'll be there, and square.

Wow, your department sounds like the place to be at =D

I've just requested to join the Nottingham Geeks group too! Name's Iris.

Btw, what does "glomping" mean...? Hehehe lol you sound so astonished that I'm Chinese.

Full Metal Alchemist? - No, not heard of it actually. What's it about? If you have it, I won't object to watching it!

Lol I'm afraid everything I know is from my childhood - I'm still a fan of Miyazaki but I really don't know what's happened to his ideas that his latest one is about some random goldfish..... Joe Hisaishi - the composer for all the Miyazaki movies - is an absolute genius. Listen to this - one of my favourites: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiSSYTZmoKg (for the movie Mononoke Hime aka Princess Mononoke)

Not heard of those bands - seeing as you named X Japan, I'm gonna assume you like metal/rock! - I have actually heard a few of their songs - their lyrics are truly... strange. I think the only long-standing song of theirs that I've heard and liked is "Forever Love". Nah the stuff I have I tend to gather off of other people, so I don't tend to know where it's from. It tends to be soundtracks from anime, say I have a song from Gundam Seed for example, and Evangelian's theme song. I have a couple more but no idea what they're called or by whom lol.

Hehe you do sound like a language fanatic! - I like that though. I'm always impressed by someone who's good at or speaks another language. I find it enriches you so much and broadens your horizon. My computer's refusing to read the last word within the phrase "Hello" that you wrote in Chinese, so I can only assume it's the word pronounced "ma" I'm from Hong-Kong, so I wouldn't say I'm 中国人 though I know I technically am I only use the term Chinese when I'm speaking English really! Name's Ka-Yan, if you wanted to know, seeing as you asked (yes I know I said my name's Iris previously - it is. I have two names lol)

So, do you actually speak/read/write Chinese then? That's well impressive! I shall have to convert you over to Cantonese though

As for Manga - I mostly like the girly ones lol. I don't actually read it these days - I know too little about it and there's not a single good manga shop nearby where I can just browse through the books. I have a funny thing about reading them in English though - I'm just so used to reading Chinese or working out the Kanji in Japanese that reading English in Manga almost feels wrong lol. There's one called "End of Century Angel" that's quite old now and I still haven't got hold of the 4th and final book in the series T_T Anyway, the classic of Japanese cartoon/manga MUST simply be Doraemon!!!! I hope you've heard of Doraemon!

Wow I've written waaay too much...

Mega long quote ftw

Glomping..:http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=glomping Although it's more of a fanboy/girling over someone xD; But whatever


Ah, Full Metal Alchemist. Well, it's about 50 episodes long and is about two young alchemist, Edward and Alphonse Elric.. I don't want to say too much incase I give some major plot details away.. But it's just following them on their journey to find out more about their dad, after they have a horrific alchemical accident. Ed tries hard to become State Alchemist and stuff.. And then they discover the dark secrets that alchemy really holds... It's really interesting and so engrossing. Do I have it? Nah, I used to watch it on youtube before it got licensed So then I had to find it on a website somewhere *cough*

Miyazaki.. I recognise that name...Ah, yes! Of course! He did Spirited Away I love that film, Chihiro is so damn cute and Yubaba is just so funny, I think. Great film. Yeah I've heard of Mononoke Hime, but I've never seen it :x *Listens to music clip* Wow, that music is hauntingly beautiful. Thanks xD;

Oh right okay xD; I think I know Forever Love... One of my favourite is Silent Jealousy by them You can find it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzHbHxSEtVQ I used to have a private Japanese tutor, and she loved X-Japan.. She said she went to a concert once and she actually got to TALK and have a conversation with hide! Poor hide... So sad. Yeah, I'm quite into rock-y things but I also quite like Antique Cafe, which are more bouncy pop kind of things.. If you can be bothered, here's an example of An Cafe's song 'Tekesuta Kousen': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=islIHEI__B4 xD; Sorry I'm bombarding you with vids.

Yeah, that's the great thing about languages. It really does help you understand someone else's point of view. I could never go through my life only knowing English >.<; I would just feel.. So constricted. I love being able to express myself in different languages.. So liberating. Yeah the whole thing should read (in Pinyin): Ni3 hao3 ma? Wo3 jiao4 Adam, ni3 jiao2 shen(Forgot this tone) me (and again)? Ni3 shi2 zhong1 guo2 ren2 ma? I think that's right... I really hate to use Pinyin, just like I hate to use romaji for Japanese.. It's so deconstructive -.-;

No no no! I've just been reading some books and have picked up some basic grammar/sentences/nouns etc... The &#27721;&#23383; (Hanzi) are quite easy because I'm already familiar with a lot of them from Japanese. And you speak Cantonese! Oh, I actually know very little about Cantonese xD; I'm more of a Mandarin man. Can you understand Mandarin? Yeah, I met a girl who said she was called Holly but she actually had a chinese name that I forget >_>; So it's cool. Hi Ka-Yan.

Actually I don't read a lot of Manga, but the little I have read, I know what you mean! About reading it in English.. I prefer to slowly read it in Japanese than to whizz through it in English.. It just doesn't feel right >.<; Oh! There's a shop called Forbidden Planet in Nottingham which sells Manga and video games and comics I have one where I come from so when I saw it I had to go in xD;

Of course I've heard of Doraemon! Doesn't mean I've read it though >_>; Is it actually good or is it just the hype?

Yeah, so have I... >_>; ^^; *Wanders off*

(now it's my go to wander off... Perhaps PM-ing is in order?)

Sorry to butt in on your conversation but aaah, I love Nausicaa ^_^
Not sure why people seem to prefer Mononoke... It's good, but probably one of my least favourite Miyazaki films (of which I've seen very few, lol) could be for the reasons you said, though.

I would love to learn lots and lots of languages, but I'm terrible at them -_- I'm not very good with pronunciation.. I have a hard time pronouncing things in English, and I'd feel bad messing up other languages as well, lol. I love the sounds of different languages though.

Sorry to butt in on your conversation but aaah, I love Nausicaa ^_^
Not sure why people seem to prefer Mononoke... It's good, but probably one of my least favourite Miyazaki films (of which I've seen very few, lol) could be for the reasons you said, though.

I would love to learn lots and lots of languages, but I'm terrible at them -_- I'm not very good with pronunciation.. I have a hard time pronouncing things in English, and I'd feel bad messing up other languages as well, lol. I love the sounds of different languages though.

Yeah good idea xD; I'll send you a PM in a bit




It's fine xD; I've never actually heard of Nausica ._.; Have you seen Spirited Away?

As for learning languages, there are many different methods out there... And a lot of people, I think, are deluded as to the best ways. And as for pronunciation - That comes with time! I used to be piss-poor at French pronunciation, now I get compliments quite a bit xD; So it's true: Practice makes perfect! Besides, what have you got to lose?

Mwahahahahaha Adam, it's me, Dom.

I liked Nausicaa, but I'm not really into anime. To be honest the only thing that makes me geeky is the amount of time I spend on the internet, I don't even play games anymore and most of my internet time is spent socialising. I couldn't really talk about calculators for long and like clubbing if I enjoy the company of the people I'm with, but I don't drink much (I think it's a waste of money) and and generally have a better time with "you people".

Hehe, aaah that's part of reason I love Sigur Ros. One of their albums was sung entirely (I think...) in a made up "language" that isn't quite a language, so every song sounds so different and awesome.
Badly described, but they're an amazing band.

Oooh, made up languages! Or as us linguists call 'conlangs'. They're really quite interesting... And yes of course there is a difference between conlangs and natural languages, natural languages were of course artificial at one point but underwent 'creolisation' and then became what they are now.

Are you actually interested in conlangs? I've read into a few, Martin and I are 'familiar' (=have read a little bit about) a conlang called Lojban, and I have also read about Esperanto (I'm actually doing an online e-mail course in this right now), Interlingua (Looks boring if I'm honest) and um, what's it called, that other one.. Ithkuil or something off the top of my head. That looks ridiculously complicated but very efficient. Then of course there's Klingon, but perhaps that's a little too geeky now, ne?

How can anything be too geeky? And I love Sigur Ros too!

Do computer programming languages count as languages? If so I am officially multilingual!