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Eldraus Vanchar, did anyone notice---
Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 9:07 am
by N-Aldwitch
Did anyone notice, when I played him, I was quoting Oscar Wilde?
It took a bit of effort flipping through my Importance of Being Earnest book, just wondering if it actually was recognised by anyone.
(as of recent, within the past few months, I've been role-playing actual characters or themes.. popular ones. Right now I've got a good one whos gunna start quoting things. That's given away too much, if you've figured it out, don't say it!!) lol
Sorry for making an entire thread on it, I just don't think anyone noticed? slash, Knows what/who Oscar Wilde is?
Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 9:29 am
by Chris Johnson
If any good role player did recognise the quotes they wouldn't react to obvious OOC references such as these
Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 11:34 am
by N-Aldwitch
I'm asking this because they didn't react OOCly, not talking about in-game..
Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 3:44 pm
by Phalynx
Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 4:09 pm
by wichita
I tend to ignore altogether any character pulling OOC stuff like that.
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Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 9:30 pm
by Mykey
It is remarkable, rather amusing idea
Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 7:59 am
by tiddy ogg
I must admit to making my chars say proverbs and suchlike, suitably modified to suit the location, e.g. that will happen when wild boars fly, and even reworked a complete folk tale once with Cantrian variations.
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 7:49 am
by N-Aldwitch
tiddy ogg wrote:I must admit to making my chars say proverbs and suchlike, suitably modified to suit the location, e.g. that will happen when wild boars fly, and even reworked a complete folk tale once with Cantrian variations.
Coming back to this..
I hate it when people use phrases that make no sense in Cantr. Some phrases, for example, have been developed in Real Life over thousands of years due to certain events, I can't think of one off the top of my head but it annoys me.
Oh, like:
'Bless you!' What the hell? Honestly, that has no meaning what so ever in a Cantr character's life. Bless you relates to God and blessing the sneezer of the 'evil spirits' that just ejaculated from their nose.
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 12:57 pm
by deadboy
Yeah, I always use Gesundheit
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 1:25 pm
by N-Aldwitch
Hehe, at least that has a more hazy background to it, and is more of a word than a phrase with a big history.
Though it probably does have a history, any historians nearby??
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 2:13 pm
by Marian
It's German, so I guess that's a CRB to if you use it in the English area.
Seriously though, I don't like it when people talk about things that
obviously doesn't belong, like robots or zombies, and it bugs me a little when people use names of real life famous people or characters in books or something, but in general there are lots and
lots of things that technically don't make sense in Cantr, and I don't think it's something you can be to anal about because everybody does it at some point, it's almost impossible not to.
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 2:14 pm
by deadboy
I get almost all of my first names from books and then stick random second names on them. I figure if it sounds good when I read it in a book it should sound good when others read it in cantr
EDIT: Oh, and Gesundheit is German but is now in the English Dictionary so it counts as an english word too
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 3:45 pm
by sky
deadboy wrote:I get almost all of my first names from books and then stick random second names on them. I figure if it sounds good when I read it in a book it should sound good when others read it in cantr
EDIT: Oh, and Gesundheit is German but is now in the English Dictionary so it counts as an english word too
*nods* Yep.. seems German is creeping into the English language but this isn't the only word that is used in English eg Kindergarden (Kindergarten in German) is another example:
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/gesundheit
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 4:09 pm
by deadboy
sky wrote:deadboy wrote:I get almost all of my first names from books and then stick random second names on them. I figure if it sounds good when I read it in a book it should sound good when others read it in cantr
EDIT: Oh, and Gesundheit is German but is now in the English Dictionary so it counts as an english word too
*nods* Yep.. seems German is creeping into the English language but this isn't the only word that is used in English eg Kindergarden (Kindergarten in German) is another example:
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/gesundheit
Only the Americans call it Kindergarden, we call it reception
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 4:40 pm
by the_antisocial_hermit
Lots of languages are part of the English language and have been for a long time, such as German, Norse, French, Danish, etc. That's part of how it evolved, borrowing and adapting. Its syntax makes it easy to adapt words from other languages and so they become a part of it.
A quote from a professor of English language history on the Middle English (ME) time period:
Dr. Jacobsen wrote:Culturally, the Norman occupation resulted in a feudal society with French spoken at the top and English spoken at the bottom. Widespread borrowing and bilingualism eventually led to the collapse of the inflectional system. While some inflectional machinery certainly existed in ME, by the 1200s English largely relied on syntax. Vowel length remains phonemic, but the loss of word final inflections begins to shorten vowels across the board. The London dialect becomes the basis for standardization. This is by far the period of greatest change in the history of English.
Link to the outline it is from:
http://www.wtamu.edu/academic/fah/eng/wc/histeng.htm
