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that's pretty sweet. saved of course. Arc is at it's end, I love origin stories.

I'll drink most tea in any flavor. A regular teabag heated up in water. No sugar or anything else. But If you truly want to drink tea at it's best, I know how. Don't use tea bags.Believe it or not, freshly steamed tea is very much like freshly grinded coffee. Does wonders. There is a tea shop in New York that does precisely this, they order pure tea leaves from international sellers, then using a special tea steamer, they make the tea on the spot for costumers. You can tell if the tea leaves fresh because they are at a bright green color, not withered, unlike teabags. It's similar in practice to mainland china's Hakka styled tea, except not grinded.

Precisely! You people may not realise it, but all languages go through this phrase, it's how a language evolves. In this case, we have two opposing rules of written language evolution. Words that should be spelled/pronounced differently to simplify it so that the language becomes more viable. And the other is the preservation of the standard rules in order to prevent a decay of the language. Sounds weird, I know. Well lets take into account how some words, despite their spelling, need to have a variation in spelling to avoid confusion. Such as Two, to, and too. Try to switch them around in sentences, and you'd get confused. So they should remain. But at the same time, you can have a word like Night, simply changed to "Nite" because there really is no need for an g and an h in there. It's needless spelling. Yet, when you talk about a Knight, though sounding the same as nite/night, it's still needed to different in a written language. So a compromise would usually come down the road for that word some hundred years later. I can imagine the word night become "nite" and the word Knight become "knite" still the same pronunciation, still the same same rules but simplified for generation to come. Just apply the same thing to "tonight" and you can continue on. To people who prefer an unchanged system, they would view this as chaotic and lazy, but to people newly introduced to the language, children, and some spelling scholars, it makes perfect sense to change the words in the manner above. Do note, this is totally different from IM and txt. Though a good deal of that could be viewed as the same thing, most of the changes were done as a time saver, and doesn't really simplify. On the other hand though... it's a true showcasing of how new languages are formed.

Well, I'm going by American accents, and we do use a different dictionary. My proposal doesn't necessarily have to apply to England, or other english speaking countries. But since websters purpose was to simplify the English language, I felt changing the spellings to not only reflect the accents, but also fit the pronunciation more would of been fitting. It's not a matter of dumbing it down, that wasn't websters purpose, there was a huge problem presented in the US by the sudden influx of multinational immigrants, which led to a language divide in the country. In fact, Most of the western states early on spoke french, New York up until the 1800's spoke mostly Dutch, and with all this, we started to develop a distinct set of accents in the US that differed from Standard English. The result was a need to accommodate these new accents, and so the websters dictionary was partially born from that reason, the other reasons was a lack of proper dictionaries, and those that did exist were limited. Noah Webster expanded on the words used, not just literary, but words in terminology. In that regard, his work upped the standard. By the way, though yes, Americans can be lazy, our education system can be pretty bad over here... actually in the cities it's pretty sub par from my experience. Well, that's aside the point. What I'm getting at is that is that it isn't a matter of idiocy, or even negligence, a lot of those spellings are purposely done. It's really expanded thanks to IM and texting. Faster ways of getting out sentences in cumbersome keypads, and lazy youths on AIM/IXQ/MSN that are truly too lazy to spell out the full word. I'm my case, it's a mix of problems, I pronounce things and try to spell it as I pronounce them... big NO NO in English since you have to memorize the spelling from what I can gather from the ludacris spelling rules in the language. Combine that with lots of typo's from an unskilled typer constantly multitasking, and a little laziness. Then yes, it's pretty horrible spelling on my end. Oh did I mention inzomia,which I often suffer, that doesn't help things either. ^^0 Well back on topic... Simplifying the spelling of the words to the general population, and pruning out spellings that are no longer commonly used in the language would be a big benefit I think. I'm not suggesting this out laziness, but instead for the benifit of the language in general. We have 20 vowels in this language, having over 200 different ways to spell them out is absurd. (I don't remember the exact number, but 20 vowels in the englsuh language do indeed exceed that spelling range.) When you consider that, makes you wonder how the language even works with all these absurdly redundant spellings. I'm sure everyone will love spelling "ghoti" all day long sicne you can pronounce it like "Fish". *sighs*

You know what, I really find it strange how they'll update some words to match more modern day uses. But then entirely ignore older words that don't spell our sound anything like they are supposed to. really now, I don't care if there is a history to the word, simplify and make it simple to spell. The Original websters dictionary did just that with tons of british words, so why not do it again in modern times. Here's a couple of them. "Colonel" Colonel comes from Old Italian colonello, commander of a column of troops, which in turn derives from colonna, column. English usage followed Spanish practice (also a French variant) and spelled the word "coronel," pronounced the way it looks. Eventually this was corrupted to ker-nel. When the written version became "colonel" (reflecting its Latin origin), the "kernel" pronunciation remained. <BR style="DISPLAY: block; CLEAR: left"> "Wednesday" Wednesday comes from the Middle English Wednes dei, which is from Old English Wēdnes dæg, meaning the day of the Germanic god Woden who was a god of the Anglo-Saxons in England until about the 7th century. <BR style="DISPLAY: block; CLEAR: left"> So... what's preventing us from agreeing to spell these two Wensday, and Kernel? Nothing, just stuck up spellers who think it shouldn't be changed because they are in common use. Well, I say, change the bloody dictionary and watch as over the coure of 25 years it falls out of complete use. I pitty the international communities having to learn english as a second language for political and financial reasons. We'd be far better off with a simpler language like Latin or perhaps one of the newer languages like Esperanto that was designed for that very purpose. It's already been proven that if you learn either of the previous two instead of english (You can look up the studies, wiki esperanto for example) which allowed a 25% improvement in most students studying a new language.

China has a good number of languages and dialects, Chinese isn't used often as a language description because it's basically lumping all the languages together as if they were all the same, that's why it's insulting to some. Yes that would showcase ignorance. Although I do speak English better then most Americans, in recent years I've given into American slang, however, I still have slightly odd subtle way of talking, I tend to pronounce my I's and E's differently when first learning a word. And by habit I still pronounce a few incorrectly, but they fit a national level of pronunciation. My Friend who's an English major loves me talking English because she can tell the accent I have, but notes that I'm surprisingly good with the language more so then actual USA born citizens. This of course means, I talk American English, with an second Sub American accent on top of my traditional Portuguese, though I can mimic a Brazilian and British accent a little.

you commissined someone to do a comic for you? Pretty sweet, art's pretty good.

I know, but it's two bad wammies at one time for fans. Also, I can't help but feel bothered by the characters being drawn in a different way from how they are supposed to be drawn. Actually, the art is not the biggest factor, what bothers me is the secondhand quality they have on the show, it's as if the producers don't even care for the series. Now THAT bothers me.

arrrggghhh.... fillers, really bad fillers. not only are they fillers, but they have nothing to do with the arc, just completely wastes our time. To top it off, the animation was pretty bad, I mean, normally it wouldn't bother me, but you can see a huge quality difference between classin naruto animation and the current one by their attempts to traw it in the old style. Guy looked so Lumpy. Oh and towards the end, there was a very bad animation error, Sakura was using her late harido from after she cut it off from her chunin exam,es but for a brief couple of seconds, they had her animated with her original hair. Common, who is animating this subpar Naruto... I already want to strangle the writers of the filler, don't make me want to butcher the animators too. *Sobs*

ooh those came out nicely.

okay, not photoshop. SInce my photoshop sopped working, I no longer have a program to create things. Nonetheless, this should crack you up.

ooh I like this attempt at it.

Yeah that disturbed me a little. Like I said before, the Muslims were not much better. In religious practices, in many faiths, you are supposed to ignore people. It's considered a temptation, but starting up an arguement with them over nothing is a form of tempation, at least that is what some schools of thought preach. You only take action when fellow person is threatened. On the other hand they probably thought they were doing a service to the gathered community by starting tat, and their goal (And I'm certian about this) was to provoke them and/or get them kicked out. My advice to the christian when asked "Why are Christians better then Muslims?", I would of responded. "It's not that Christians are better, neither is. But I believe they have the better understanding of God's will." Or something like that, don't just rebute their beliefs. When chistianity spread, it wasn't originaly through "My religion is better then yours" It was a message of saving your souls and christs teachings. then some hundreds of years ago some crazed spanish fanatics decided force feed everyone christianity or kill them. Even the Muslims didn't do that in their cnquests, they instead converted peopel via economics and politics.

oh, I see. That's right, I forgot that it was someone else drawing this for you. XD

Hmm, well the Christians there were certainly not there to learn about muslims, they were absolutely there to hopefully convert them to Christianity. With no intend to learn from these people, then you probably shouldn't of bothered them in the first place despite your goals. I don't see how the cops were acting in favor of the muslims. In all honesty, I disliked what they did, but I understand that they really do want to avoid a bad situation. So they tried to defuse it before there was a remote chance of it. I actually think that those guys asking questions purposely began crowding and talking to them, and had another friend walk over and bring the police to break it up. Still doesn't change the fact that the Police lied and acted like jerks about the situation. The guy in the video from when they were arrested, the chatty round headed Muslim with the close shaven look. He was asking them, and obviously didn't care for them and wanted to start an argument. With that in mind, it was probably better if the group did leave. Just wish it wasn't via arrest, but rather the then simply ordering them to leave. Even if it is freedom of speech, a event has the right to expel certain people who disrupt the public gathering, no matter the reason. I wonder now that if the cops hadn't removed those Christians, would the young confrontational men of tried to push it further? In my opinion, everyone screwed up, the Christians for entering the event while knowing they are unwanted, the Police for being too forceful and possibly sexually harassing a girl, then lying about the ordeal. And finally the young muslims who didn't choose to ignore pesky Christians.

You're getting the details down pretty good. Still alot of these are recreatiosn of the comic scenes. Is that what the guys keep asking you for?

This feels more like an abuse of authority then an actual religious issue to be honest. Now I admit that it's rather insulting to some people to have a religious group interrupt another different religious groups gathering, but that's as far as it goes. Much better way of handling this situation was available. I've ran into Muslims trying to convert me, or some other forms of Christianity. And you know what? I welcome it for the post part, it often leads to a religious debate or a trading of ideas, and we both usually end up leaving satisfied by what we learned, I get a better understanding of their beliefs, and they either learn more about christian views, or learn facts about their own religion they didn't know. I'm sad to say this, but this is no longer the case here in the US, people used to act a lot more like me a long time ago when it came to the same topic, but I'm finding it harder and harder to find people who are willing to discuss the ideas instead of either insulting and dismissing my own, or simply trying to force all their ideas on me (Which is now the typical American way).

Try this http://forums.saiyanisland.com/showthread.php?t=8520

if I recall there was a PDF Raw raw, and later converted to a PDF with English translation. There was one group offering it online but only to "paid" members on their Naruto tenwork, which as it turns out was also stealing fan scanlations and charging a fee ti vew them. Thsi was years back before scanlation sites became more common. The one thing I do remmeber thoguh was that there was one group that had every single one of the manga covers from every chapter online in poster size. Now that was pretty awesome.

they had been scanlated in english by some fans, but I haven't seen them myself. Many of the fans use them as a guide for Naruto wikia's.

oooh I did find the original picture I was trying to upload before. hehehehe.... seems the posting glitch is on again. tried to edit it out but it doesn't show up in the post box. I'm using google chrome right now...

Desert Punk, probably one of the funniest anime I've seen in a long time. Also, one of the few where the English Dub is arguably better then the Japanese dub. The actors and rewriting made it much funnier then the original dialog in most scenes. So that means, when you see the series, try out the English dub. And yes, Rain Spider is my favorite character in the anime, and I am totaly going to try to dress up liek him in holoween.

thanks I'll keep it in mind. Also going to right it all out on a notepad first before posting. Lost too much work and time already. Ahh, tis thursday. Ready yourselfs for this seasons final episode of Naruto and the latest manga update.

Well all you wanted was the name and discription of the jutsu, so that's all you needed. The rest you can make it out the way you want. It's still useful fan information even if it's not properly filed. Remidnsm e, I still have to reup our wikia on silha. I tried twice with an hours work each time ony for explorer to mess up... >_> will use google chrome instead when workingo n the guyver wikia. anyways, I was looking over Madara's ever constantly changing mask in flashbacks, and it's weird pattern focus over Madara's single exposed Shirigan eye... I think that mask is some sort of Jutsu itself. We might learn more in the next manga update.

Well it's mixed bag now, a short while back though it was pretty awesome. You're begining to see why I wasn't too happy with the start of the Shippuuden anime. It looked great up until the funny as hell animation from the Kyubi/pain fight. As for jutsu's I'm explain there are three main types. You an read it all her,e but I'll post and guve a small summery. http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Jutsu Ninjutsu - Elemental and handseal Technique based combat Genjutsu - Illusionary based combat Taijutsu - Hand to hand and weapon combat Then there are the sub groups Bunshinjutsu - Clone based stuff Chakra Flow - chakra flowing into weapons Collaboration jutsu - teamed up jutsu's, usualy using two elements Flower Ninja Art - mix of tai and nin, often looks like flowers Fūinjutsu - sealing Hiden - Secret clan techniques Jikūkan Ninjutsu - space-time based jutsu Juinjutsu - ressurection/zombie jutsu Kenjutsu - Sword based Kinjutsu - Banned jutsu Nintaijutsu - Basically the Raikage's fighting style, taijutsu mixed with electrical ninjutsu Senjutsu - natural sage magic Tailed Beast Skill - self explanitory Tensei Ninjutsu - lifeforce transfering stuff The there are the Kekkei Genkai stuff. Which is basically abilities due to genetics Such as Dōjutsu. Which are all eye based Kekkei Genkai.