Translate this!
 

Anyone on the translation board wanna take a crack at this?!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkYS8DXcMew

I can't stop watching this.

Nemo

The Dao that can be spoken is not the unchanging Dao.
The Name which can be named is not the unchanging Name.
Back to you Paul.

The promt was in Assyrian and means:
I spent a fortune on my hair for tonight and it doesn't even look so good.

"The English language is a global tyranny, and I'm striking a blow for freedom."

I think she's speaking an especially down-trodden dialect of Martian.

If you play it backwards it says, "Serene is dead."

I think she may be paraphrasing Bob Dylan's acceptance speech from a few years back.

What? Everyone in California talks like that! ;)

Makes me kinda sad I missed whatever party she'd been to! ;)

Thanks,

Bill

Once again, I am too late:

This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by CBS.

Anyone know if there is some other link?

David R.

Awful Warning
 

You were lucky to escape, David.

This was clearly the Ancient Elvish Language of Eragon. All who have listened to these magical words are now bound to serve and follow Serene for all Eternity.

Who's Serene?

Info.
 

Serene Branson. I warn you again, David, this way is fraught with danger. She may be related to the Dark Lord Richard , master of all Virgin shrines.

Actually I've heard reports now that the woman may actually have been having a stroke live on camera. But I don't know if its been verified. There was a look deep in her eyes of utter terror. I watched the thing so many times it will be imprinted in my mind forever.

Nemo

First thing to note: apparently, Ms. Branson was not having a stroke. Or at least, having been examined by paramedics on the scene, she was sent home with a friend (as a precaution), since otherwise "[her] vital signs were normal" and it was determined that she did not require hospitalization.

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/perso...erene-branson/

Which is a big phew! since I really would feel badly about having joined the World Wide Web Wisecracking yesterday if it had turned out that she was indeed having a major health crisis. (I confess, I just assumed that she was intoxicated, or nervous, or very mixed up; the word "stroke" never occurred to me. We've all seen enough "blooper" videos of flubbing on-air reporters, after all. A lesson learned.)

Anyway, with all that taken care of, and with best wishes to Ms. Branson . . . the remix:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daS1ivc_ycg

"Which is a big phew!"
Yes, I was feeling a bit dastardly.

Yet there was still that look so deep in her eyes just as she began to slip off the lexical precipice: beyond health crisis!

Nemo

Come on people! Judging by her aphasia and the appearance of her face, she has had some serious medical event - perhaps a seizure or a transient stroke-like event. And whatever the cause, how would you like your own embarrassing incident to be played up in such an adolescent manner?
Mary

Laughter is involuntary, Mary, relax.
And black humor has a venerable tradition.

Nemo