Has anyone seen the Rock School ad on C4?

[Hendrik]

Met up with an american language assistant yesterday who started talking about rock school, not knowing that i went to CH. she found it awesome to actually meet a real life person from CH. small world, eh?

[BTaylor]

You pulled then.

[englishangel]

You pulled then.

Is that a statement or a question?

Your English grammar is letting you down.

I thought you had received a better education than that?

[Richard Ruck]

Uh....

actually, Josh does speak Klingon as well as Elvish and Quenya and other strange languages.

Just out of interest, how does anyone actually know that he speaks these 'languages'?

Are there other people at C.H. who understand him?

[englishangel]

There are other Klingon and Elvish speakers out there.

I have not mastered them myself (more of a Vucan Trekker actiually).

What on earth (or elsewhere) is Quenya?

[BTaylor]

You pulled then.

Is that a statement or a question?

Your English grammar is letting you down.

I thought you had received a better education than that?

Had it been a question the sentence would have ended with a question mark.

However, a small amount of ambiguousness never does any harm.

[englishangel]

You pulled then.

If it is a statement, as my daughter would say "You know this how?"

[BTaylor]

Years of trying the same moves.

However, saying you wore knee length yellow socks and breeches tends to only attract a certain type of lady...

[DavebytheSea]

Well, number 6 (shown tonight) has been the final episode shown elsewhere, but we are to get number 7 next week! None of us have seen this yet, but I gather they all get to go out to LA and swim in Gene Simmons pool!!!!

I thought his farewell speech was quite moving - and didn't the band do just great? Couldn't hear Josh too well but Camilla came over loud and clear. They played well, they all looked wonderful and really did the school proud. And, as my brother in law said, "They don't seem to have been contaminated by it all".

Well done, the Class!

[Bingo the Poop-Eating Dog]

Frankly, I was pleasantly surprised by how well the band came across at the Hammersmith Apollo gig. I'd imagined it might be a major embarrassmentfest and that the audience would be encouraged in advance to 'make allowances'.

Mind you, there's no substitute for good-quality sound equipment; it can make a complete asshole sound like Jimi Hendrix.

But it's fair to say that without Dudders on drums, it would probably have been the embarrassing fiasco I'd envisaged. A band with a godawful drummer is no band at all - but Dudders did 'em proud.

[Richard Ruck]

Just had a peek at the Channel 4 forum - people seem to be posting in Elvish -

For example: "som pepol lov dudders bekoz dej tink hes buff. how kan yu lik som one wen yu dont even know dem and yu saw dem de first tim. also pepol lik dudders bkuz dej tink he luks even mor buff wen he plejs de drums."

Is this stuff txtspk, then, or some sort of variation?

[Mrs C.]

Esperanto for elves?

[Sergiu Panaite]

As far as I can tell, it's illiterate txtspk. Which is... interesting?

[Richard Ruck]

As far as I can tell, it's illiterate txtspk. Which is... interesting?

Thanks, Sergiu. I've studied a few languages, but I don't think I'll bother with this one!

[Sergiu Panaite]

"som pepol lov dudders bekoz dej tink hes buff. how kan yu lik som one wen yu dont even know dem and yu saw dem de first tim. also pepol lik dudders bkuz dej tink he luks even mor buff wen he plejs de drums."

My translation, fyi: "Some people love Dudders (??) because they think he's buff (fit, attractive, etc). How can you like someone when you don't even know then and you saw them the first time. Also people like Dudders because they think he looks even more buff when he plays the drums".
Now, and I'm quite sure you'll all agree, it's not exactly a great economy of words or characters, it's just completely pointless. I hate people who type like that, they should have bans available for using a keyboard in the wrong way