# So, I'm New. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 6, 2013, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-im-new/673223 "2013-11-06T05:46:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2013, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-im-new/673223/61 "2013-11-07T15:09:28Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > since I don’t speak (read) Japanese, I don’t know whether you said what you said you said or if you actually said “Fuck **twickster** and the horse she rode in on.” No, but there was something in there about a goat. . . ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2013, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-im-new/673223/62 "2013-11-07T16:48:31Z")
For the record, I have never ridden a goat. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2013, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-im-new/673223/63 "2013-11-07T18:22:57Z")
Welcome! ---
**Author:** ![Purin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Purin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purin)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2013, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-im-new/673223/64 "2013-11-07T19:52:59Z")
> [@echo7tango](#): > > About **twickster** ’s warning, > > … put another way, it’s like [this 3-sec video request from Professor Samuel L. Jackson](http://goo.gl/f9FKuv). **NSFW, BTW!** > > Greetings, Purin血! Welcome a-board the good ship Straight Dope! Haha! That was great! I understand. Thanks for the welcome! 😃 > [@twickster](#): > > No. And no. > > The rule was written like that so people could ask for translation help, discuss linguistics, etc. Think of it as the GQ exception. > > We prefer that you not use a language other than English in MPSIMS. Even if you provide a translation, since I don’t speak (read) Japanese, I don’t know whether you said what you said you said or if you actually said “Fuck **twickster** and the horse she rode in on.” > > Hope this is clear. And if not – > > Exactamundo! 😃 Oh, dear **twickster** , why would I ever say such a thing about you in japanese? 😛 No, but really, I hear you loud and clear! :\> ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2013, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-im-new/673223/65 "2013-11-09T02:33:49Z")
**Purin** , I’d like to be the very first to welcome you here! I said I’d like to be…not I am… ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2013, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-im-new/673223/66 "2013-11-09T04:09:59Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > What, you speak Proto-Indo-European as well? > (When come back, bring PIE…) I don’ t speak PIE but a friend of mine does speak Lithuanian. That’s all I got. ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2013, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-im-new/673223/67 "2013-11-09T05:28:40Z")
Welcome Purin血! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-im-new/673223.md?page=3)