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Legate of Amon Lanc · 03-25-2010, 06:25 AM

I remember a friend of mine (Honza - for the few 'Downers who know him) used to have a phone with this function, and you can imagine the fun we had with it. But you don't need to, of course, limit yourself to such prosaic ways to express yourself. Just for the sake of coolness, and for utter discrediting yourself in the eyes of the "normal" people, you might try to use for a few cases to call things like "Elbereth Gilthoniel!" or "Ash Nazg Durbatuluk" (both with some appropriate intonation). I think the image of a person with a sudden movement reaching into his pocket, taking out a mobile phone shining in the evening dark as it's being switched on, lifting it high in front of himself and crying "Elbereth Gilthoniel!" is pretty stunning... But of course, that's just one alternative.

It might be good for example for any emergency calls.

03-25-2010, 06:25 AM	#6
Legate of Amon Lanc A Voice That Gainsayeth Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In that far land beyond the Sea Posts: 7,431	I remember a friend of mine (Honza - for the few 'Downers who know him) used to have a phone with this function, and you can imagine the fun we had with it. But you don't need to, of course, limit yourself to such prosaic ways to express yourself. Just for the sake of coolness, and for utter discrediting yourself in the eyes of the "normal" people, you might try to use for a few cases to call things like "Elbereth Gilthoniel!" or "Ash Nazg Durbatuluk" (both with some appropriate intonation). I think the image of a person with a sudden movement reaching into his pocket, taking out a mobile phone shining in the evening dark as it's being switched on, lifting it high in front of himself and crying "Elbereth Gilthoniel!" is pretty stunning... But of course, that's just one alternative. It might be good for example for any emergency calls. __________________ "Should the story say 'he ate bread,' the dramatic producer can only show 'a piece of bread' according to his taste or fancy, but the hearer of the story will think of bread in general and picture it in some form of his own." -On Fairy-Stories