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 Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 4:58 am
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Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 8:37 am
what's a smurf? >.<
(sowwy. my excuse: I'm german u__u)
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Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 11:43 am
Really? sweatdrop
I think you should be familar with the smurfs even if you're german. I think their origin is Belgium which is close to Germany...but anyways:
The Smurfs are little blue creatures who live somewhere in the forests of medieval Europe.
And...I'm feeling lazy so it's time to copy and paste. :]
"The storylines tend to be simple tales of bold adventure. The cast has a simple structure as well: almost all the characters look essentially alike — male, very short (just "three apples tall"), with blue skin, white trousers with a hole for their short tails, white hat in the style of a Phrygian cap, and some additional accessory that identifies each one's personality. (For instance, Handy Smurf wears overalls instead of the standard trousers, a brimmed hat, and a pencil above his ear). Smurfs can walk and run, but often move by skipping on both feet. They love to eat smilax leaves, whose berries the smurfs naturally call smurfberries.
The male Smurfs almost never appear without their hats, which leaves a mystery amongst the fans as to whether they have hair or not. The animated series canon state that they may be bald: one episode of the Hanna-Barbera cartoon has Greedy Smurf removing his chef's hat to give Papa Smurf a pie he had concealed under it, revealing a bald head. Another episode, St. Smurf and the Dragon, shows Hefty Smurf's hat rising up off his bald head briefly as he and others slide to a stop. Both Papa Smurf and Grandpa Smurf have full beards and hair visibly coming from under their hats above the earline. In The Smurfs and the Magic Flute, a Smurf took off his hat briefly for a polite gesture.
In the comics, the last page of first album Les Schtroumpfs noirs (The Black Smurfs) shows Papa Smurf's hat blown off by an explosion, revealing his completely bald head (which may simply be due to old age). In Le Schtroumpfeur de Bijoux (The Jewel Smurfer), Jokey Smurf gets very angry and defensive when a human tells him he should take off his hat.
The smurfs fulfill simple archetypes of everyday people: Lazy Smurf, Grouchy Smurf, Brainy Smurf, and so on. All smurfs but Papa, Baby, Nanny and Grandpa are said to be 100 years old, and there are normally 100 smurfs (but this number increases as new smurf characters appear: smurflings, Nanny, etc).
Smurf language
A characteristic of the smurf language is the frequent use of the word "smurf" and its derivatives in a variety of meanings. The smurfs replace enough nouns and verbs in everyday speech with smurf as to make their conversations barely understandable: "We're going smurfing on the River Smurf today."
It was implied a number of times that the smurfs all understood each other due to subtle variations in intonation that Johan or PeeWit (or the viewers) could not detect.
So that the viewer of the animated series is able to understand the Smurfs, only some words (or a portion of the word) are replaced with the word "smurf". Context offers a reliable understanding of this speech pattern, but common vocabulary includes remarking that something is "just smurfy" or "smurftastic".
In Schtroumpf vert et vert Schtroumpf, published in Belgium in 1972, it was revealed that the village was divided between North & South, and that the Smurfs on either side had different ideas as to whether the term "smurf" should be used as a verb or as a noun: for instance, the Northern Smurfs call a certain object a "bottle opsmurf", while the Southern Smurfs call it a "smurf opener".
Papa Smurf himself kept out of the argument, having more important things on his mind. But when the conflict led to all-out war, he had to resort to desperate measures to restore order.
This story is considered a parody on the still ongoing taalstrijd (language war) between French (Walloon) and Dutch speaking (Flemish) communities in Belgium.
Smurf village
The Smurfs live in houses made from mushrooms or houses that just look like mushrooms (often made of stone), somewhere in the middle of a deep forest. Johan and Peewit would make visits, as well as a number of other forest natives but it is otherwise not possible for a human to find the smurf village except when led by a smurf."Oh and behold, A smurf:  His name is harmony.
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Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 4:02 pm
nobody cares if a smurf suffocates so it doesn't matter that their blue
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Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 1:19 am
Ooh :] I know them. I didn't know they were called smurfs. In germany it's "schlümpfe"
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Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 5:37 pm
Hoity-Toity nobody cares if a smurf suffocates so it doesn't matter that their blue
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Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 8:47 am
Not "De Smurfen" again gonk
I hate those pesky little creatures. stare
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