Funny coincidences when practising Klingon

[pne]

The other day, while reviewing Klingon vocabulary in Anki, I had the two successive words tuv and SID... that is, "be patient (verb)" and "patient (noun)"! Not related semantically at all, but the fact that their English translation happens to contain the same word amused me much :)

Then this morning, while reviewing my "pIqaD syllables" deck (where I converted all the words in my Klingon dictionary to pIqaD in order to practise reading the script), I had two successive words 'ey and way. The only thing more amusing would have been if I had had 'em in the middle... it would have spelled A M Y :)

(The pIqaD syllables deck is strictly orthography-to-transliteration, regardless of the part of speech of the word or possible polysemy; those three words happen to have these possible translations: 'ey be good, tasty, delicious, harmonious; 'em (noun) behind, area behind, (verb) vomit); way The name of the sound /w/.)

Comments

[steorra]

Another example of how eerily much the internet (and specifically Google) knows about you:
I searched Google just now for a typing speed test. Along side one of the results on the first page, there was a note telling me that "Philip Newton shared this on livejournal.com - Mar 8, 2008"; your name linked to your Google+ profile, and the date linked to the post on Livejournal, and hovering over your name explained to me that "You are connected to Philip Newton on Google+".

[pne]

Wow, that degree of connecting the dots is kinda freaky.

Especially because the service on which I had “shared” the URL is not directly connected to Google.

[steorra]

Yeah. It's pretty easy to figure out how Google would know it, since you link your LJ from your Google+ profile. But I still find it disconcerting.