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sapagoo
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aliendial wrote:
I meant to ask before - what the heck is he wearing? Is he hosting a BBQ? Some kinda Masonic apron thingie?

Also, what do the colons mean in the address? Do we ignore them or do they modify the preceding letter somehow? I couldn't find any colons on a hacker translator page . . .


after discussing this in #unfiction, these symbols are for phonetic spelling.
Bill found a great page here http://www.antimoon.com/how/pronunc-soundsipa.htm

we also found charts (but without examples) http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/fullchart.html and http://www.essex.ac.uk/speech/teaching-01/474/lg474-99-4b.html

so as near as we can tell, the "h u:" is the h (as in hello) followed by a long U (as in blue, food, lou, and shoe).
and the "I n" is the short I (as in hit or sitting) and the n (as in ten).

so, we've got something that sounds like hoo_in
the first could be hoo, hooh, who, hu, huu or something to that effect.
the last could be in, n, inn, en, inh, ihn, or something to that effect.

we don't think hugh or hew are correct, since technically, the phonetic spelling should be "h y u:", but that's just an opinion.

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I also found the same website. If you dig a little deeper, in the examples section. (http://www.antimoon.com/how/pronunctransdemo.htm)

"h u:" = who (it's about half way down the page)

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hue too.
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Here's some spec that ties in the picture. suppose h:u does stand for "who". Maybe that means who is in the picture. I've tried a few combo's of lincoln and abe with _n but am not really that interested.

Talk amongst youselves. I'll give you a topic. The topic is who. Wink

Jim

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Alex, I'll take "Bearded Guys Who Look Like Abe Lincoln, Celebrating a Touchdown" for $100
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Jeopardy

Sorry, but the category is "Assasinated Presidents bragging about the one that got away."
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That sounds like something HITLER would say!

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Aliandial...

Said something about Masons.

Anyone else reading this thread a Masonic Brother?

PM me.

There might be something to that...
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aliendial wrote:
hue too.


under the international phonetic alphabet (which is being used in the lincoln pic) hue would be pronounced "h j u:" where "j" is the sound of the "y" in yes or yellow.

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DonkeyOatey wandered through #uf last night and observed that "who_n" should ring a bell with programmers - and now I forget the details but basically it's a tag in Unix (? I probably remember that wrong) that points to a name and the answer would have the same format - e.g. abe_lincoln -- who by the way has a live journal page. (DO found it, not me.)

http://www.livejournal.com/~abe_lincoln

That one's probably not in-game (old, one strange "friend"). But the point is maybe we really are just looking for a name like that.
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...---... l ai v dZ 3: n .. l d o t k o m s l @ S t i l d .. h u: ^ n d r s k o: r i n ...---...

There's still the last "i" unaccounted for. "i n" would be "in" or "inn". So translated literally would be "who_in" or "who_inn". Does this mean anything in Unix?

Tried various combinations of "who", "abe", "abraham", "lincoln", "abelincoln", etc and "in", "inn". No valid pages...

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The extra "i"

I think the "i" is part of the pronunciation of the letter "n". The NAME of the letter "n" is pronounced "en", not just the "n" sound.

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Abe Lincoln

Ok Everyone .. just to let you in on somehting .. this is NOT .. NOT a picture of abe lincoln. This is a picture from a Masonic publication .. This might help you out .. If you have questions about anything masonic let me know and I have some pretty good sources .. I can't garantee I can find everything, but I know quite a bit ..

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What she said....

Yeah... what she said.

*I* can't say anything about it, but she can.

You're definitely on the wrong track with the Abe thing. If you had read my post about it being Masonic, you would have been able to get a bit farther already.
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http://www.utlm.org/onlinebooks/captmorgansfreemasonry4.htm

Page 76, how this helps, I got no clue..

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Okay, so we know this is the grand hailing sign of distress.
http://www.utlm.org/images/captmorgan/captmorgan_p76.gif

Along with the ...---... morse code, it's pretty obvious somebody's in trouble. Confused

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