well you are right sayjo but i'm interested what are the other two languages

My favorite is American Sign Language ^_^

I was born and raised utilizing it.

what are you deaf or is someone in your family

Haha, I believe denis has a high gpa. Just like I believe diplomat1824 is Robert Zimmer. I mean, the edit done on the article adding the diplomat part on the same day is just a coincidence, right?

Don't care

He is an avid pilot of small aircraft, and identifies the board game Diplomacy as his only "real hobby". He plays the game on the website http://www.phpdiplomacy.net and goes under the alias "diplomat1824" - the numbers being what he considers the key chapters of Newton's Physics.

I'm calling bs on that section. Just to reiterate what everyone else said.

Diplomat said he taught at a "small Christian university" :P I win. You should probably have looked through all his prevarication a little more carefully lulzworth.

But the article made me laugh out loud, good joke. Just change it back lol.

@Denis Almost every relative of mine is Deaf.

are you deaf
believe that or is this another Robert Zimmer

i know that may be offensive that i wouldn't believe you on such a serious issue so sorry

also....sic and pandora i dont think are dating. at least thats what i understood from the last time we chatted

@Denis: I am not Deaf (In a physical view, but I am in a cultural) and in no way view it as a serious issue, which is sufficient enough evidence that my portrayal is accurate ^_^.

And here I thought our diplomat1824 days were behind us. How I miss him so.

I'd also love to have that wonderfully nutty Sioraf as Killeens back. Oh, what a pompous little fool. I miss these people.

haha, punny ASL, bow before your superior DGS masters.

Ok, the IP that made that edit about Zimmer also logged into lulzworth's account on 25th August. Nice try.

hahahaha caught @ghosty did you do your as this year or gcse

AS-levels?

(Are you about to make a wiki article about me claiming that I'm diplomat or something?)

Don't know why there's a question mark after AS levels...

no just curious that it all went alright as i thought you were doing gsces

Nah that was last year :)

@Akroma- You know DGS? I'll have to say that ASL is more rich and effecting ^_^ Bring it.

meh whatever.

I mean, we can discuss this endlessly, and in the end it's just a battle of nationality anyway, like english vs any other language.

OK, ASL is American Sign Language. That one I know from my deaf friends (who, thankfully, lip read). But what is DGS?

P.S. Careful playing a deaf person who lip reads in Diplomacy. They can get your secrets from across the room if they can see your face... The only thing worse is playing a couple of Russian friends who slip into their native language while sitting around the table and you just KNOW they are talking about their retreats and builds when they shouldn't be. <grin>

DGS deutsche Gebärden Sprache, german sign language.


also, bullshit, lip reading is hard enough when you have a proper view, on a distance, it's worth shit. Not that I was ever good at that in the first place.
When playing face-to-face with the Deaf, you will have a whole different problem. Deafies are often excelent judges of intent.

reminds me of that one story, when some dude visited a place where many deafies were living. they were watching a speech by some politican and laughing their ass off.
the dude asked them why they were laughing, they couldn't understand anything afterall.
they answwered "Because he is lying so badly"

Maybe that's my problem. They can see it in my face that I'm about to stab. I bet they are good at reading a person in poker too.

probably less so, though I am not playing poker very much. In poker, people focus on moving their face not at all, and usually, won't talk.

in diplomacy, where people try to be good liars, you get a lot of fake smiles and more opportunities to spot a liar.

not that it is wise to rely on that entirely.

now back to the original topic:

yes, there are women-nerds here

djbent once tried to organize an all female game. it failed because while there are *some* female nerds, but not enough to fill even a single game

how disappointing

i think there are more, but they don't all read the forum i suppose. and we know some ladies prefer to not make their presence known. still, i agree that it is disappointing.