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Description: Arthur Dent and his friend, Ford Prefect, narrowly escape the destruction of Earth, only to face incredible trials, tribulations and adventures across space and time. Based on the 1978 radio series of the same name. Known for the distinctive, creative and surreal humor of its creator, Douglas Adams.

Runtime: Each episode is 30~36 minutes in length. Episode 3 is 31 minutes, and episode 4 is 32 minutes, altogether that's 63 minutes for tonight. If you'd like to put something on after the show, go ahead.

Content warnings: See attached links

• https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/600427
• https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081874/parentalguide/

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※Use a VPN and make sure you have a Hexbear account. Also, be aware that the uploads have two subtitle tracks: SDH and non-SDH subtitles, listed as "English" and "Latin" respectively for technical reasons. Let's thank Aer once again for going above and beyond the call of duty in providing these uploads for us.

I've been looking forward to this one. I'm also looking forward to season 5 in general.

The rest of this post may contain spoilers.

♫ Uniting nations at the speeeed of liiiiight ♫
[epic sax solo]
♫ Station of the '20s — TV☆3SIS! ♫

I do not enjoy seeing ignoramuses' several-paragraph-long rants about "tankies" when checking the front page. Ideally, it would be possible to disable only that type of tagline, while leaving other taglines be.

I don't know if other people have already proposed this — I can't imagine I'm alone in feeling this way, but I also can't easily find anyone else who's made this suggestion.

Join us!

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Note that you need a Hexbear account to use Blorptube. You may wish to use a VPN as well. Also, don't use a cartoon from the 1980s as medical advice, not that I was expecting you to.

Also, if you use an anime tracker like Anilist or MAL: Once Upon a Time... Life is listed in a number of anime databases due to being a Japanese co-production.

• https://myanimelist.net/anime/3624/Seimei_no_Kagaku__Micro_Patrol
• https://anilist.co/anime/3624/Once-Upon-a-Time-Life/

What are we watching?

Episode titles: "The Tiny Platelets" — "The Heart" — "Breathing" — "The Brain" — "The Neurons"

Series description: Once Upon a Time... Life teaches about the human body and its various systems using the same characters from the other Once Upon a Time... seasons. The "good guys" (such as Pierrot and Mercedes from Space) represent the cells of the body's defense mechanisms, and the "bad guys" (including the "red-nose guys" as one of our regulars calls them) represent the viruses and bacteria.

We'll be watching the English dub, which this time around has pretty decent audio mixing, though we curiously can't figure out who the heck actually did the voices. They've got British accents if nothing else.

Content warnings

If you've got like trypophobia or don't like looking at landscapes made of cartoon human flesh, then this show might be a problem for you. Children get serious illnesses; a character dies of old age at some point I believe; there is some nudity in the opening; the immune system is presented as cops; and some cells are very occasionally presented as caricatures of e.g. "cowboys and Indians".

And Man said, "Like, for identifying predators and foraging for berries and stuff?"

And God said, "...Totally."

And Man said, "Season 3 of The Boondocks was first announced in December of 2009 and began airing in May of 2010, which means it's very conceivable that it began production contemporary with the original broadcast of K-On! season 1 (April-June 2009); indeed, this episode, 'Lovely Ebony Brown' (S3E11), aired only three months after the last episode of the English dub of K-On! season 1."

Inti-Illimani, hailing from the late-'60s university milieu of Santiago, Chile, popularized the song "Venceremos" — the anthem of Popular Unity and Salvador Allende's presidency. They were on tour in Europe when Pinochet's coup happened, which left them effectively stranded there, as Pinochet's junta did not particularly care for them or their music. It was during their effective exile in Europe that they recorded this album, among others, which would circulate in Chile through bootleg recordings.

Inti-Illimani would only return to Chile in 1988, campaigning against the continuation of Pinochet's rule in that year's presidential referendum.

"The room was messiestest I had ever seen", "Bookmaal and Noknиŋɑɪ"^[It's supposed to say "Bokmål" and "Nynorsk"]: Incorrect information, bad spelling and linguistic hallucinations have set off alarms for the Norwegian Language Council, as teachers and principals send concerned messages about a clearly AI-generated dictionary.

"Your complete resource for the Norwegian language" — these are the words at the top of the website ordlista.no. What the website actually provides, however, are made-up words, bad grammar, wholly nonexistent expressions, and alternative language history, according to the Norwegian Language Council. They are concerned.

—"The information could easily seem to be of sound quality to an untrained reader, but once we took a closer look at it, we saw right away that there is absolutely no quality control here," director Åse Wetås says.

—"Extremely harmful"

The website claims that it "uses freely-available AI models to create insightful articles providing guidance and useful resources for our readers."

Wetås chortles as she presents examples from the website. You can, among other things, read about "the depth and usage of the phrase 'to be like a fish out of water'", or learn about how the dialects of former Sogn og Fjordane county are "more conservative and closer to what we could call pure Bokmål^[Every single municipality in Sogn og Fjordane uses Nynorsk, not Bokmål. Even the county's name is Nynorsk. So this is basically like saying that Mississippi has the closest living dialect to "pure" Received Pronunciation.]"

Although Wetås can't help but laugh at the examples, she is still worried. The website claims to have content about language learning and grammar, and claims that it "provides the tools you need to master the language."

—"When you learn a language, you need resources you can trust, not resources containing egregiously incorrect facts and language."

Wetås says that it's a problem that people need to already possess some amount of knowledge of the language beforehand in order to notice the lack of quality that websites like these have. She also believes that the front page does not disclose the fact that it is AI generated in clear enough terms on its front page.

—"It could be extremely harmful for students and other people trying to learn Norwegian, if language learners end up using resources like these, instead of using resources which have been checked to ensure quality," Wetås says.

She brings up the much more reliable ordbøkene.no, which is maintained by the Language Council itself.

"Messy, messierer and messiestest"

Ordbøkene.no^[The original article just says "dette" meaning "this". This seemed like odd phrasing to me, but in context it's clear it's referring to ordbøkene.no.] has Norwegian-language dictionaries approved for use in education.

But when principal Bjørn Wilhelmsen at the Eikefjord School for Children and Youth^[I normally translate barneskole as "primary school" and ungdomsskole as "lower secondary school" but I opted for a different and more elegant-sounding translation here.] searched the word "messy" on Google one day, he ended up on ordlista.no — and certainly found a "mess" there.

—"I found something mildly entertaining on that website, let's put it that way," Wilhelmsen says.

—"It seemed fine at first, but then they started doing degrees of comparison, and then they said that 'chiaoens'^[This is literally cat-walking-on-your-keyboard type gibberish.] was a synonym for 'mess'."

Wilhelmsen's curiosity was piqued, and he started looking through the website's examples of unique dialectal words, which included words like "cuddle", "poop", "nonsense", "rowan", and "party-down" — none of which are actually dialectal words, yet the website still insists that "these words can be difficult to understand for those who aren't familiar with them, but they can also provide a fascinating insight into linguistic diversity".

Blocked the site

After Wilhelmsen was done laughing at ordlista.no, he quickly notified the Language Council. Wetås states that several other teachers and principals have contacted her about this matter as well. Wilhelmsen has himself chosen to block the website on his school's network.

This coming fall, the teachers at Eikefjord will use ordlista.no as a central example when they teach their students about critical thinking and skepticism to online sources.

—"Use at your own risk"

Aftenposten has presented Wilhelmsen and the Language Council's criticisms to ordlista.no. Nomedia Norge Limited — the company behind ordlista.no — only provided the following remark, and refuses further comment:

—"All information about ordlista.no, including information about its use of AI-generated content, can already be found on the website through the top menu and footer."

On the "terms of service" page it states that the information provided by ordlista.no should not be perceived as professional advice, and all usage of the site is at one's own risk. Users are recommended to contact qualified professionals if necessary.

—"A particular responsibility"

The Language Council has the approval of dictionaries and word lists for use in public education as one of its responsibilities. Wetås states that ordlista.no has not sought approval.

—"They're very far from being approved. If they really want to help people learn Norwegian, they need to start by fixing their content."

Aside from refusing to approve the word list section on ordlista.no, the Language Council cannot do much with the "educational content" on the AI-generated website.

—"But we can shine a spotlight on it," Wetås says, while emphasizing that the Language Council does not want to put an end to AI initiatives.

In an era where websites like ordlista.no are becoming progressively easier to spin up, Wetås says that there is only one real solution to the problem these websites present:

—"It is more important than ever that schoolchildren get a good education in reading and writing, as well as in textual analysis and criticism."

She believes this is the only way children and young people can learn to distinguish between good and bad quality.

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• Part 5

Edit: That's all five titles solved! Well done, everyone!

Something I've noticed as I've posted these quizzes is that, generally, with each passing quiz, fewer people respond. This has created a bit of a pile-up of unsolved titles, and leads me to wonder if I might be able to get more responses if I provide some extra hints right off the bat — as opposed to waiting to see if anybody asks for a hint. Therefore, this quiz consists entirely of unsolved titles from previous quizzes, but with some extra hints right off the bat. This will probably be my last conlang quiz for a while, and if there are still some unsolved titles from this "stockpile" left after this point, I might just reveal them? I dunno.

The previous posts linked above have some discussions and glosses of other anime that might help you. The plot descriptions in these quizzes are based on those from Anilist, so you can use that site for reference. You can also use things like title structure, character names, and occasional numerals to help you figure things out, or you can ask me for hints like the meanings of individual words, and I may or may not provide. The hints I've provided right off the bat might make some of these way too easy, but that's just how it goes.

When you make a guess, please spoiler your answer. If you're right, I will reply with the Evangelion congratulations emoji and provide glosses. I can't guarantee that every translation is perfect, because despite inventing this language, it is still not my first language. I will however only retroactively edit the translations when I've made particularly egregious mistakes; smaller mistakes I'll just leave in.

Some hints not specific to any title

~~1: Hay Hiḱey to yaRoyčoḱiya!~~

~~Pe-1-e A. M***ŕe ňa anime-dećti : kyertiv xaíde lo še na dećte ňa "sule : buhe" čay. Suliv daŕi to yeruňevše ko yecigempoĺevše, no še la nay nat́e yekoḱev anske hiḱev anime-dećte, na fe šo še ňa dećte dum aniḱe nay može čay. Rine K. S****é ňa ariḱe so yerokev roynasinćke : yénske, šo nat́e zede na yeydrestev M***ŕe. Ńesint́ev hazoske, šo sokruňeynevńe, yesnij́iḱev biśe so M. C****ye iḿej́eske ňa hoževše xaye : dećke he, ńehke čoḱiya na dećte va pset́e "yalanav lobuha" to yerokivńe.~~

~~2: ROḰAV SVITA~~

~~Kav anskagunska he, ariḱiv 5 ńehke dećte so bubǒv xayede lo ńeklit́e óre va hiḱe na dećte, va, ka he, moževńe šehkev moḱske dećte, yéne so yegune. Fe xi žariv 2 he, A*ye, Ś****é, E*é, M**é, u M***ŕe ňa, yepsev yedoňiyev dećte ko yeruňivńe ňa: hiḱe nay u he bubǒ, hiḱe nay yohkske žo u žo, so šo vure nay u he vure va bant́e nódi.~~

~~Na šo, A*ye ňa yeyḱevše dum roypedeyne kliňket́i še, Ś****é ňa kliňkećke koto ňenbeni, M***ŕe ňa ran poĺa, M**é ňa sǒnt́e u šehkede remeynev SR-e, so šo E*é ňa menremeyne so spindogev bőśke. Yezinivńe dum yeĺenivńe kay? Nay! No ńenamožet́e na zídet́e svite kay? Nay la! Dećte ňa boni fat́ede he u he, fat́evde braškede lo buhe!~~

~~3: Irimǒ-Svepuya~~

~~"Ariḱiv krayski fat́iv krayski suliv krayski."~~

~~Rinet́i guni čay, kot́i kruňta čay, sint́i oget́e čay, nasint́i tvarspiney čay bonxuliv spinski ňa yeluliv yežetev zine. Yespinziniv I. Ć**é, yemeňkevše N***ye, u yerinivše M*ǒ, M***ŕe, u A*é ňa yaroykeýav dumaška "Irimǒ-Svepuya" sinódmožet́ey e.~~

~~4: YeDimtő~~

~~Y. Y**ǒ ňa dent́ev snaske, so šo sint́e na de bǒrey u zeňa he, yemenevše kruňet́e še na sule, šo hože kruňet́ev bőśke. To yazbav yaLana he yedǒv Une koto Jese čay sule k'yeruňeve kay? Nó, yǒynev Y**ǒ ňa yezureyni.~~

~~Na šo, fe he, nožev Y**ǒ kǒyt́i liňariḱev yerefare, va moḱudet́e virdev kaye denj́eske yǒynevše, va uńe ogev vurede lo može kot́e yakanxusav buha-šo-moževe-yont́i. Desokoćke, yeliňariḱev so M**ǒ iḿej́eske ňa sokruňeynev Y**ǒ, no še u dumpúne, šo moḱa u moḱa laxoyt́i Y**ǒ čay sule ňa irićke, u dot́ot́iv kaí me yeruňev Y**ǒ... no... kanxeyv buhey-šo-moževe-yont́i?~~

~~5: Hay Kya so yaLanavfa Braška~~

~~Yaspinavfa ňa vure tot́ev neňe yǒyne čay S. K****á társulet́a. Na fe, šo K****á bvira ran kede, dev desokoćke, šo yesulevfe nay edreske. Nó, yekulev ras̋ulećke na yáma va K****á korobet́e možev moḱzine na lana kum o dum tosuŕoya; so šo, "áyt́ey žo, yevat́e bone o virdav púnska" čay korobet́e dum ubone! Nay može, šo fe : korobev zure, kay?~~

~~...No K****á ňa kot́a yalanav dara ran ogev kaye, yavureyvša ňa haycuíniskey, so šo "yǒbonavša" ňa ran kedev kaye — na fe, šo K****á tosulet́a yekule, A**é, de. Ńev 2 kǒyt́i yaDimdayǒv zura čay, so šo xi he ziniv pekyercki čay može kum?! Kože, šo yezbev yemoževńe vurede ňa kiḱe, nay óre. Xi fe he, yelehostevńe xayt́iv ani!~~

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Use a VPN, make sure you have a Hexbear account, and bring a towel as said — not that you'd forget, of course!

Description: Arthur Dent and his friend, Ford Prefect, narrowly escape the destruction of Earth, only to face incredible trials, tribulations and adventures across space and time. Based on the 1978 radio series of the same name. Known for the distinctive, creative and surreal humor of its creator, Douglas Adams.

Runtime: Each episode is 30~36 minutes in length. Episode 1 is 33 minutes, and episode 2 is 35 minutes, altogether that's 68 minutes for tonight. If you'd like to put something on after the show, go ahead.

Content warnings: See attached links

• https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/600427
• https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081874/parentalguide/

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※Use a VPN and make sure you have a Hexbear account. Also, be aware that the uploads have two subtitle tracks: SDH and non-SDH subtitles, listed as "English" and "Latin" respectively for technical reasons. Let's thank Aer once again for going above and beyond the call of duty in providing these uploads for us.

And so we finally finish season 4, wrapping up both the Equestria Games arc which started near the end of season 3, and book-ending the Chest of Harmony arc which started in the season premiere.

The rest of this post may contain spoilers.

♫ Uniting nations at the speeeed of liiiiight ♫
[epic sax solo]
♫ Station of the '20s — TV☆3SIS! ♫

My traditions for this very special day include:

• Seeing every government building flying giant flags, and thinking, "Oh, today's a flag day? I completely forgot! What is it this time? ...Oh it's probably just some royal's birthday, isn't it?"
• Looking up the list of official flag days in Norway, seeing that it's the queen's birthday, and saying, "Yup, of course."
• -ing at the small number of private individuals who have gone out of their way to commemorate a stranger's birthday just because she married a state-mandated celebrity with an inherited position of political power.
• Forget that July 4 is the queen's birthday by tomorrow morning, thus allowing me to repeat these traditions year after year.