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Originally Posted by Guernsey
Does anyone know how to do that "Yuki speak" when she goes into her expositions? How many words could conjure up that kind of speech pattern?
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eh?..... Yeah, the Spock comparison is apt. I'm not sure I understand the last question. As many words as necessary?
How To Yuki:
1) Simply be a walking fountain of knowledge, but keep quiet until asked to speak.
2) Speak in monosyllables in normal conversation but when explaining something technical or complicated, use only complete sentences and bury your victim in complete and intensely accurate exposition.
When I was a kid in the late 60s, Spock was a role model for me (as was Scotty). I read the encyclopedias from A-Z, I read the freaking dictionary, I was a sponge for data. I took everything apart to see how it worked.
If you hear me in real life, I tend to be a bit level or flat in speaking tone. I speak almost entirely in complete sentences. I tend to be a bit of a walking wikipedia. I have an extensive science and engineering background. I type fast (a skill acquired when writing term papers the night before they were due on a Selectric typewriter - no word processors then).
All this made me an "alien" and a bit scary to my mostly blue-collar Texas relatives and fellow students
They literally joked the aliens swapped me out when I was a baby because I was so weird to them.
So naturally, I'm a bit inclined to like Yuki -- and love the idea of being able to manipulate the data fabric of reality. I'm rather fond of the idea that the universe can be thought of as a giant data field. That's an actual field of study in cosmology and space physics for that:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_physics
http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/digitalphysics.html