StarGate: Traditions

[Jaeden]

"They close the iris when they notice the gate activating off schedule. Hell, even on scheduled activations. While the iris keeps matter from passing through, it allows energy, and there are iris codes to open it. Each team gets a GDO per member, a garage door opener, and a new code each mission. You don't strike me as the type who has trouble memorizing codes, though.

"Garage door opener? Talk about low-teching a name." He laughs.

But, a translator would be very useful. I'd love to see one, if it were practical."

"I'd love to try and put one together. I really want to get involved in developing things with and about the tech we find out there, as opposed to just playing with other people's toys. I honestly think it's no harder than the ones we see on Earth, save that there's fewer people who speak Goa'uld..."

 

[Kemrain]

"Well, I speak it. Learned at Groom Lake. It was hell figuring out their toys before I could read it. Doubt I'd have made such short work of the Intars without it. It wasn't that hard to figure out. There's a suprising number of folks who know it. Most of them aren't gate material, though. Doctor Jackson did most of the preliminary work on it, but he finished pretty quickly. Probably had something to do with his time spent on Abydos."

 

[Jaeden]

"Well, I speak it. Learned at Groom Lake. It was hell figuring out their toys before I could read it. Doubt I'd have made such short work of the Intars without it. It wasn't that hard to figure out. There's a suprising number of folks who know it. Most of them aren't gate material, though. Doctor Jackson did most of the preliminary work on it, but he finished pretty quickly. Probably had something to do with his time spent on Abydos."

"Gate material? Wonder what you'd say about me." He blushes a bit and suddenly finds his cards really interesting. "Well.. If you ever want to give it a go, I'm certainly game. I'm sure they'd give us some time to work on it, or we could just approach it like a hobby until they OK'ed it.

 

[Keryn]

"Well, I speak it. Learned at Groom Lake. It was hell figuring out their toys before I could read it. Doubt I'd have made such short work of the Intars without it. It wasn't that hard to figure out. There's a suprising number of folks who know it. Most of them aren't gate material, though. Doctor Jackson did most of the preliminary work on it, but he finished pretty quickly. Probably had something to do with his time spent on Abydos."

I speek it too. It's almost a requirement that someone on an SG team knows the language. All the other languages I can speak and read fluently are bonuses.

 

[Jaeden]

I speek it too. It's almost a requirement that someone on an SG team knows the language. All the other languages I can speak and read fluently are bonuses.

"Damn... and here I thought I was cool for knowing the Old Norse! Between the three of us, with two different people to confirm meaning and provide voice patterns, we could do a really good job on this thing. The only other thing that would be nice would be a male voice speaking it, but that's far from required. Whaddya say?"

 

[Kemrain]

"Gate material? Wonder what you'd say about me." He blushes a bit and suddenly finds his cards really interesting.

Ashley smirks, still not sure if Julian is intentionally flirting with her or if this is just how he is, and still not sure how she feels about it. She keeps bringing her eyes to Colonel Johnson, trying to read in his eyes whether or not he's accepted her or is just letting her get her hopes up before he chooses someone else- or if he's even made any decisions at all.

"Well.. If you ever want to give it a go, I'm certainly game. I'm sure they'd give us some time to work on it, or we could just approach it like a hobby until they OK'ed it.

I speek it too. It's almost a requirement that someone on an SG team knows the language. All the other languages I can speak and read fluently are bonuses.

"Damn... and here I thought I was cool for knowing the Old Norse! Between the three of us, with two different people to confirm meaning and provide voice patterns, we could do a really good job on this thing. The only other thing that would be nice would be a male voice speaking it, but that's far from required. Whaddya say?"

"Could be interesting. I don't know if I'll have the time to put a lot of effort into it, but it's definately a worthwhile project, and I'm sure General Hammond would be excited by the idea. I'm expected back in Lab 19 in a few hours, and I've been working far more than I've been sleeping, so I don't think I'll be able to get to it today, but I have some free time after my shift tomorrow, if you're still interested. You'll need to have a base program programmed before we can start adding vocab and grammar. You'll need decent voice recognition software, too, but if you're the technical wizard you're made out to be, it should't be a problem for you."

 

[Jaeden]

Ashley smirks, still not sure if Julian is intentionally flirting with her or if this is just how he is, and still not sure how she feels about it. She keeps bringing her eyes to Colonel Johnson, trying to read in his eyes whether or not he's accepted her or is just letting her get her hopes up before he chooses someone else- or if he's even made any decisions at all."

Julian makes no more overt motions at the moment... not wanting to push it in front of the boss. Ashley has made it abundantly obvious that she's treating this card game as a job interview, and mucking that up for her wouldn't be the best relationship move.

Could be interesting. I don't know if I'll have the time to put a lot of effort into it, but it's definately a worthwhile project, and I'm sure General Hammond would be excited by the idea. I'm expected back in Lab 19 in a few hours, and I've been working far more than I've been sleeping, so I don't think I'll be able to get to it today, but I have some free time after my shift tomorrow, if you're still interested. You'll need to have a base program programmed before we can start adding vocab and grammar. You'll need decent voice recognition software, too, but if you're the technical wizard you're made out to be, it should't be a problem for you."

"Well... The speech recognition and image processing algorithms are already done... Stuff I've written for past projects. So all I need is a lookup database for the grammar. I could have that done by the time you get off shift tomorrow. It would be great if I could speak with Gen. Hammond about this, and maybe get assigned to work on it so that I could devote my work-time to it. I'd really appreciate help from both of you ladies on it. And like I said... Once we get it working with Goa'uld, it's only a matter of adding vocabulary to do other languages... Ancient, Asgard, whatever else you encounter out there..."

 

[Kemrain]

"I'd love to see this get off the ground. How much space do you think a language would take up? Could it fit on a PDA, realistically? I have one with a microphone and a speaker, so it should be workable for the project." Ashley digs into her pocket and pulls out a Palm Pilot, holding it up for Julian to see. "Do you think it could run on this?"

 

[Jaeden]

"I'd love to see this get off the ground. How much space do you think a language would take up? Could it fit on a PDA, realistically? I have one with a microphone and a speaker, so it should be workable for the project." Ashley digs into her pocket and pulls out a Palm Pilot, holding it up for Julian to see. "Do you think it could run on this?"

"I think so.. It doesn't have the camera attachment, so reading written stuff wouldn't be possible without adding one... hmm... It might need a bigger memory card, but we could probably pull it off, sure. Hell, worst case scenario, I could build one about this much bigger (he motions with his hand to indicate a hypothetical PDA an inch or so thicker) and put a CD-ROM in there, if I had to. And if we did, we could just pop in the Asgard disk when we want to use it, or whatnot." He hands her back her device. "This would definitely be enough to get a demo working with a limited vocabulary, though.. Enough to prove to the brass that she works."

 

[Kemrain]

"That could rock. I doubt it would take much to convince everyone of it's usefulness, assuming it works as advertised. This could be standard issue for SG teams if it works well. I'd be happy to help you out, Sergeant." She smiles, taking her PDA back and replacing it in her pocket. "Do you have any other great ideas?"