NotW #90: eejmensenikbenhet

[eejmensenikbenhet]

Who are you?

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Tell us about yourself! Where are you coming from, what languages do you speak, what do you do, how old are you, tell us a few words about your family, work etc. This is the job interview part.

Who am I? I am the 90th Na'vi of the week, which is an enormous honor to me. When I look back at my predecessors I really think "I can't believe I'm on that list now"...
My name is Kayle, I'm known here as either EMIBH or eejmensenikbenhet and I'm just an ordinary 16 year old Dutchman. I speak just a few languages: Limburgian, Dutch, English, German, Na'vi and a few words in some other languages.

Why are you here?

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What brought you here to the Learn Na'vi forum in the first place? Did you fall in love with the language? With Pandora? With a character? Did someone invite you? Or did you stumble upon this site? Once here, why did you decide to stay? How much time do you spend here every day?

Well I'm here to learn the beautiful language called lì'fya leNa'vi and I was brought here by accident. I had seen part of the movie (illegally) in class and I wanted to see the other part and when I started searching online (for an illegal download... *shame*) I found these forums. I looked around a little and my brain decided to settle upon the language and had me sign up. What kept me here in the beginning were the nice people. At this time I come here almost every day and I try to be online all the time that I'm not at school.

Where do your alias and profile pic come from?

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Do they have a special significance? Is you alias a translation of your real name, or just a bunch of random letters thrown together? Is that you on your profile pic?

Oh, Eywa be with whoever came up with this question, irayo nìngay. I have explained the name EMIBH to so many people now, I think I can do that from memory... Well, here on LN I (luckily) signed up with the name eejmensenikbenhet, the alias I have used on a lot of different sites and forums. EMIBH is a simple abbreviation of that alias. Eejmensenikbenhet means (literally) heypeopleitisme.
My avatar has been Neytiri teaching Jake his first Na'vi words since the very beginning and I'm not thinking of changing it any time soon because I want to learn the language just as bad as Neytiri wants to teach it to Jake.

Srak nga tsun nìna'vi pivlltxe?

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How well? Why did you start to learn it? What is your ultimate goal with the language? Do you have specific methods/tools you use in learning the language? How did your friends, family, or colleagues react to your interest in learning Na'vi? Have you told them at all? Have you converted any of them?

Sran, oe tsun pivlltxe nìNa'vi. Slä oe numeyu lu, oe ke fpìl futa oe lu sngä'iyu fu tsulfätu. How well? I know quite some grammar but frankly my vocab is quite small. I always have to look up some words before really knowing what to say. I started learning this language a year and a day ago (29-1-2010) and I think I've learned much in that year. My ultimate goals is to be able to help others in the learning process (and hopefully one day the actors, because they definitely need some help ). Only a handful of people know I'm learning this language, they don't care much really and just asked me to say a few lines and that was it. My mom thought it was scary to hear me speaking the language in sync with the movie...

What's your favorite Na'vi word? Did you incorporate it (or others) into your everyday vocab?

My absolute favorite word is "prrkxentrrkrr", but I don't use it in my everyday vocab. (When do you get to say "daytime smoking pleasure"?) The word I like to use when I'm speaking is "meauniaea" because that's the most beautiful word we have.

In your opinion, what are the top three user-created content on the LN website?

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Anything from the main site, the wiki, or the forum including language docs, threads, quotes, literary works, images, etc.

Top three, that's amazingly difficult. I hope it's all right to just name three contributions in a random order because I simply can't place them in an order from one to three. The three contributions that I think are absolutely amazing are the dictionaries, the exciting songs recorded by the singers in the Pamtseo nìNa'vi section and then the two teaching projects; Project NgayNume and Project Neytiri, I really feel awful with the idea that those projects don't have the life that they deserve and have had in the beginning. I'm hoping our translators, singers and teachers will continue their works and I hope this community supports them to the fullest.

Have you made any contributions to the LN community that you're particularly proud of?

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What made you make those? Do you plan on contributing (again) in the future? How?

Well, even though it's still not in its final stage, I'm quite excited doing the Na'vi Television. I have only done a few testing broadcasts but through the course of that I learned a lot about how to do it and I hope I can bring that into the project when it's running on full speed. (Actually, I'm broadcasting this week on Tuesday at 15:00 GMT on justin.tv/emibh )

What is it that you liked/hated the most about Avatar ?

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How many times have you seen it? How big of an Avatard are you? Prove it!

The thing I liked the most about the movie was definitely the scene where Jake lands with Toruk while the Na'vi are chanting in honor of the victims of the destruction of Kelutral.
The thing I hated the most was, how strange it may sound, the language. The pronunciation specifically. I know that it was very difficult to learn a language with only one example (namely karyu Pawl) but I didn't expect that it sounded even nicer when I heard karyu Pawl and some LN members speak the language.

I've seen the movie that often that I don't know exactly how often... I think it's around ten to fifteen times.
The Avatardness has shown for example in searching out how we could create a linking machine as in the movie but then connected to a Avatar game...

Has Avatar  changed your life in any way?

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Are you trying to become a Na'vi? How and to what extent? Do you live on a tree? Do you wear your hair in a long braid? Or are you just simply blue? Do you bond with animals? Is Gaia on your contact list? Did you have your photo 'shopped?

It certainly has changed the way I think about the world we live in and about how we live our life. I'm not trying to become a Na'vi, I'm somewhat sure that we all are Na'vi inside. I don't paint myself blue, I don't go out in loincloth, I don't grow my hear in a braid to look like a Na'vi. I want to feel like a Na'vi. Nari ke tsun kivame.

If you could ask Frommer or Cameron three movie or language related questions what would they be?

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You can make requests specific words/expressions too.

I have had some questions ready since some time and I hope I once get the answer.

I would like to ask James Cameron to finish off the musical scenes and the scenes that involved massive choreographies. I've seen some of the work that has gone into those scenes in the "Capturing Avatar" and I would love to see that with finished off CGI.

Then I would ask awngeyä karyu to help us out with some of the translation projects like Hämlet, the Bible and Eyktan Falulukanä. We really need certain words to be able to transfer the feeling into the Na'vi language.

Lastly I'd ask both awngeyä karyu and James Cameron to let me assist awngeyä karyu in teaching the actors the Na'vi language. A lot of my family-members do acting in plays and such and I think that knowing how to be an actor, combined with enough knowledge about the language would result in a good assistant.

What else do you do in you free time?

A light and simple question. I play music, preferably the flugelhorn, trumpet or the piano and sometimes organ. I don't only play music to myself, I'm also in four 'bands'; a youth brass band, a (normal) brass band, a small but advanced band and what we call a drunken band (playing mostly in the carnival-season). And besides that I do judo, but on a small basis, only one hour per week because I simply don't have enough time. If I do get some time free without anything interesting to discuss on any of the forums I'm on I like to take a book and really dive into it.

Name your top three favorite Earth animals from most favorite to least. Why those? What's the animal you're most terrified of?

Well, to be completely honest, I'm not that much of an animal person. I did make a top three for you:
1.  Monkeys, how they look and  live like us (but then naked and in another environment...)
2.  Fish, they're beautiful and above they are one of the few animals I'm not afraid of
3.  Birds and other flying animals (including bugs), I can really panic out when a flying creature comes towards me, I think that this makes a good answer to the last subquestion here. I'm truly terrified of flying creatures, I was once locked up in a aviary in a zoo... I came out crying (age 15)...

Pirate, ninja, zombie, or robot?

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Something else? Maybe a combo? Exactly what subtype? Why? (For those of you not so versed in trash tropes, this question basically amounts to asking "What superpowers would you like to have?")

Well I've thought about answering this with a pirate-robot combination, but I don't think that's really my thing. Can't understand a word of the pirate language and having that in binary... No thanks. I'd rather not go for the zombie as well because that would include my little evil zombie brother. I always admired ninja's for their speed and hiding powers. If one day, after I lose some weight and get a little more flexible in the limbs, I get the possibility to chose becoming one of these four, I'd definitely go for the ninja.

What three items would you take to a desert island and why?

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Anything from books, movies, games, instruments, music, sporting equipment, etc. You'd be provided with means to fully utilize the chosen items – electricity, MP3 player, etc. –, but you couldn't use them for anything else. Escape is not possible.

First, I would take with me my laptop. How can I stay in touch with you and the language otherwise? No, most of the day I spent on my computer (sad... I know ).
Second, I'd probably take my musical instruments and I would even buy an actual piano before I'd go to the island.
Third, difficult one. Third, I'd bring with me pencils and lots of paper so I can finally write that book I never got to write. (And no, I don't want to type it on the laptop, then I'd get a writer's block much to quick).

If you could travel to anywhere in space and time (including fictional universes), where would you go and why?

Funny, I have always thought of visiting the past to teach the early people things from now and see what influence that would have on modern society. But... maybe I would not be able to go back to the future then, oh, well. At least I could learn the female savages something...

If you were granted one single wish what would it be?

I'll play fair, my first response would be: Fairy Godparents.
But I think I go for "I wish that all diseases existing now, in the past and in the future will disappear."

What is a question you'd ask yourself? How would you answer it?

I'd ask myself: "Do you consider yourself mentally younger or older than your physical age?"
My answer would be: "I feel older a lot of times when I'm around people of my age, they can be amazingly childish. But when I'm around 'grown ups' I do sometimes think that I'm way younger (even when the difference in age is just 3-5 years), maybe that's just the lack of interest in the things they discuss?"

True or false?

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Write three statements about yourself, the more extravagant the better. At least one of them must be true. At the end of the week, you'll have to tell which ones were truthful and which made up.

Okay, true or false, ngay fu tsleng?

I'm actually part of a royal family having quite some princes in my family.
I once played a role in a Dutch television production.
Just two years ago I would have died from falling off a bridge into a strong swirling river 500 meters below me in Austria if the guide hadn't grabbed the hood of my jacket.

What is the funniest, weirdest, or most embarrassing Na'vi or Avatar  related thing that has happened to you?

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Something along the lines of a MLIA short.

Well I have two things to mention here, one was online and one was in real life. The online moment: on another forum I was congratulating someone in Na'vi (something at the lines of seykxel sì nìtram and so on) and the guy responded with some gibberish. I told him in Na'vi that I didn't understand his words and then I translated both of my posts. The guy then made a facepalm and told me he had just put in my congratulations backwards and posted that...
The real life moment was only this morning and is not that embarrassing at all. When I woke up and looked outside the window I was extremely surprised to see snow and in an uncontrolled moment I shouted "HERWÌ!!!!" My little brother woke up upon hearing me screaming and gave me a strange look... I could only smile.

If you could learn any trade/skill, what job would you pick and how would you apply those skills?

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Asked by Zefanaya, the previous NotW.

Wow, Zefanaya, this really is an interesting question. I think I would want to learn how to be more active and how to show more effort. I'm fairly lazy and that's an understatement... I can wait until the last moment and then I have to give everything to just get it done, if I'd do more in the beginning, I might get a better result out of it.

Well, I hope to make this week a nice one and I will do something special in my broadcast Tuesday in honour of my predecessors.
Livu Ewya ayngahu frakrr ma oeyä smukan sì smuke.

P.s. this also is my 750th post... Yeey!

[Txantslusam Skxawng]

Geleficiteerd EMIBH! You really earned it! Curious for EMBIH-TV.

Edit: I forgot something The true/false questions

1: False
2: True
3: True

[`Eylan Ayfalulukanä]

Seykxel sì nitram, ma EMIBH!

You have a varied plate of interests and skills there.

You mentioned in your list fo musical instruments the organ. Are you referring to an electronic single keyboard, or the (usually) multiple-keyboard and pedals instrument with pipes (or its electronic equivalent)? Classical, jazz or other style?

It interesting that you don't like things that fly. Do you have any idea why this is? And being locked in a zoo aviary? It sounds like there is an interesting story there... (I was once staying with a friend who keeps big cats, and he put me up in an empty cage for the night. It was a lot of fun...until it rained!)

I know of you because of your work on Eyktan Palulukanä. Time has not permitted me to work on this much lately, but I am finally nearly through the logjam that has been holding me back.

I will have to take a look at your TV program. It is really amazing what an indvidual can do today with a modest investment. A professional editing suite cost $100,000 minimum when I started in television 25 years ago. Now, you can do better quality video editing on a phone....

As for your N/T questions, hee goes:

1. T I don't see any evidence in your post that you are surrounded by royalty.
2. N I wish I had had this opportunity when I was a kid. I still remember my first tour of a TV station
    when I was about your current age. TV was 'magic' in those days. And I sense it still is, with you.
3. T Maybe....maybe not.

Enjoy your week!

[Stranger Come Knocking]

Congratulations!!!

I vote...

F,T,T

[Human No More]

Congratulations

Ts/Ng/Ng

[Blue Elf]

Ma EMIBH, seykxel sì nitram! Ngaru livu kintrr alor!

Project NgayNume and Project Neytiri, I really feel awful with the idea that those projects don't have the life that they deserve and have had in the beginning. I'm hoping our translators, singers and teachers will continue their works and I hope this community supports them to the fullest.

This. Fantastic projects, but not very living. Fortunately european class of Ngaynume runs, but we need Avatar 2 and 3 to raise more of interest. I hope too that there always be people interested in the language, which will use it and keep it alive in any way.

Ng/T sìpawmìri, 'en si oe fìfya:
1. Eltu tìtxen si, slä... tsleng
2. Kxawm Ngay - taluna ngal ngolop ngeyä *TV-it 
3. Tsleng

[Alyara Arati]

Seykxel nìtramsì!  Once again I post late, but my guesses:

F/T/T (unoriginal, but heynoteveryoneiscoollikethat)

[eejmensenikbenhet]

The clock has just passed 0:00:00 here in the Netherlands and thus my time as Na'vi of the Week is over. I shall make room for the new Na'vi of the Week to post his/her thread with the answers. I enjoyed my week and I hope all following Na'vi of the Week will have such a week too.

Finally, the answers to my Tsleng/Ngay statements:

1) I'm actually part of a royal family having quite some princes in my family.
--- Ngay, the amount of royalty in my family is quite big. Carnival royalty I meant of course... I, my father, my grandfather, my brother, 2 of my nephews and my uncle have been (Youth) Carnival Prince and my great-grandmother has been Elderly Carnival Princess.
A picture of me as Youth Carnival Prince in 2006:


2) I once played a role in a Dutch television production.
--- Ngay, it was called "Tien Torens Diep" and I was visible in this short series a lot of times as an extra.

3) Just two years ago I would have died from falling off a bridge into a strong swirling river 500 meters below me in Austria if the guide hadn't grabbed the hood of my jacket.
--- Tsleng, though I have been to Austria and I have walked over such a river it was heavily secured with iron fences. It was simply impossible to fall.