Kyshakk Koan jlsgaladriel Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 One of the reasons I love Spiderweb games is the excellent writing. We all love the tunic, "like pants for your chest!" What other writing stood out for you? He says, by way of introduction, "Shnrunk stomp! Shnrunk kill! Shnrunk eat!" Then Shnrunk takes proactive steps to carry out his three-part plan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenderfoot Thahd Hammerdal Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 I also like the Hitchhiker's reference on the Towel: "You should always know where this is." And actually, because of that, I always keep a towel on one of my characters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garrulous Glaahk Fael Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 Originally Posted By: jlsgaladriel One of the reasons I love Spiderweb games is the excellent writing. What other writing stood out for you?He says, by way of introduction, "Shnrunk stomp! Shnrunk kill! Shnrunk eat!" Then Shnrunk takes proactive steps to carry out his three-part plan. Yup, that's my favorite bit, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seasoned Roamer Cala Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 I missed the Hitchiker's reference on that, but I still think "don't forget to bring a towel!" and giggle whenever I see one anyway. (south park ref, by the way) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Articulate Vlish echoes Posted March 26, 2011 Share Posted March 26, 2011 I've played through twice, and my favorite line is definitely 'I suggest looking under drakes.' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seasoned Roamer ThirdParty Posted March 26, 2011 Share Posted March 26, 2011 Shima on tactics: "A thousand lessons on how best to study a target. Living the dream of the perfect, quick, quiet, stealthy assassination. ... And here we are, blundering through the front entrance as usual." Redbeard on oaths: "I guess now you have no chance of being a spy or assassin. Not if you swore an oath!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Randomizer Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 Nathalie on Holklandian magic: "A small section, of thin books with many pictures." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenderfoot Thahd chimp Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 Or what about Tamer Melisande: "If you ever find a drake egg, bring it to me. I will pay you very well." "Any idea where I should look?" "I suggest looking under drakes." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Jerakeen Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 This isn't exactly "best" writing, but did anyone notice the cow in Gavin's compound that says "Mu"? There's also a rat that occasionally makes a remark about witches. I think Jeff puts this stuff in to make us go "Wait, did I just see that?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 Originally Posted By: The Turtle Moves This isn't exactly "best" writing, but did anyone notice the cow in Gavin's compound that says "Mu"? Don't be ridiculous, it's cats that go "mu". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Lilith Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 The Greek letter mu is pronounced mew like a cat. The Japanese word mu is pronounced moo like a cow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Jerakeen Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 So maybe it's a Japanese cow. I'm thinking the rat must be a Nethergate reference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 Originally Posted By: Lilith The Greek letter mu is pronounced mew like a cat. The Japanese word mu is pronounced moo like a cow. For once, Lilith is incorrect. Ancient Greek µ is indeed pronounced "moo." Modern Greek µ is pronounced more like "mih", but neither one is a "myoo" sound (like the pokemon). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curious Artila pulverizer Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 Originally Posted By: CRISIS on INFINITE SLARTIES Originally Posted By: Lilith The Greek letter mu is pronounced mew like a cat. The Japanese word mu is pronounced moo like a cow. For once, Lilith is incorrect. Ancient Greek µ is indeed pronounced "moo." Modern Greek µ is pronounced more like "mih", but neither one is a "myoo" sound (like the pokemon). Actually, I'd beg to differ:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_%28letter%29 It is pronounced as mŷː -- that's impossible to recreate in "spells-like" English as English lacks some appropriate consonant sounds, but "mew" or "myoo" is closer than "moo". Overall, it seems both are accepted modern pronunciations. Edit: Ah, I see that the unicode didn't come out correctly for the phonetics. Please refer to the linked wikipedia entry instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 Hmm. Now I'm confused. There are all kinds of contradictory pronounciations for mu all over the web. I usually trust Wikipedia, but Wikipedia also does not usually contradict my old textbooks. Where's Kelandon when we need him? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 I think I'll just presume that all my physics and math and engineering teachers are right and it's myew- it's much easier than starting to question if everything else they taught me was incorrect- like F=m a or S=(b h^2)/6. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Student of Trinity Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 The traditional academic English pronunciation is 'myoo'. This has little to do with how any actual Greeks have ever referred to the letter. Remember, these traditional English academics are the same people who brought you 'phi' pronounced as 'fie'. (In the Bodleian stacks, sexually explicit books were once shelved in a section labelled only 'Φ'. Or so I've read, and it seems in character for Oxford.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 I had a number theory professor in college who decided to spice up the class by referring to ideal sets as radical sets. He realized at some point that 'radical' was out of date and asked for a replacement term. Hence, I spent the next two months writing about phat sets. On the up side, this made it easy to abbreviate them all with Φ. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 Originally Posted By: Student of Trinity Remember, these traditional English academics are the same people who brought you 'phi' pronounced as 'fie'. Is it supposed to be pronounced "fee"? That's how I've heard it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast VCH Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 Originally Posted By: CRISIS on INFINITE SLARTIES I had a number theory professor in college who decided to spice up the class by referring to ideal sets as radical sets. He realized at some point that 'radical' was out of date and asked for a replacement term. Hence, I spent the next two months writing about phat sets. On the up side, this made it easy to abbreviate them all with Φ. phat? what is this, 1990? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 Originally Posted By: VCH phat? what is this, 1990? Are you listening to Ice Ice Baby? If so, than yes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast VCH Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 Originally Posted By: Dantius Originally Posted By: VCH phat? what is this, 1990? Are you listening to Ice Ice Baby? If so, than yes. no, Dr. Dre Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dintiradan Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 Too many years and too many profs pronouncing mu as "mew" and phi as "fie" have made it impossible for me to imagine pronouncing the letters any other way. It may not be the correct way, but almost everyone pronounces them that way. At some point, descriptivism takes over. Perhaps this is the emergence of a new dialect... one whose only contents is the letters of the alphabet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 My koine Greek professors all taught "mu" as "moo," and "phi" as "fee." FWIW. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chittering Clawbug othersean Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 Originally Posted By: Dantius Are you listening to Ice Ice Baby? Forever. (Sadly, I still remember most of the lyrics.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Alorael at Large Posted March 29, 2011 Share Posted March 29, 2011 Scientists create their own pronunciations. You can pronounce things however you want as long as everyone else agrees. What's more, it's only truly important to pronounce it like the people immediately around you. The scientific community is international enough that someone will pronounce everything in every way. —Alorael, who likes tracking the spread of competing pronunciations. He also likes sticking to his wrong pronunciation guns in the face of other wrong pronunciations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted March 29, 2011 Share Posted March 29, 2011 Your pronunciation gun will never penetrate my aluminum foil armor! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seasoned Roamer Coach Posted March 29, 2011 Share Posted March 29, 2011 Just to throw fireworks into the chaos, "mu" is also the most basic syllable of Sufi chanting. My first thought was, "Bovine Sufis! Brilliant! Can they spin in circles to call up spiritual powers?" Now there's an interesting game design option... Other cool writing: Rats: "Watch out for witches." Natalie on seeing Moritz's labs: "What amazing work. It'll be fun to destroy it!" Bring Jenell and Sevilin (sp?) to the Khemerian legal library. Jenell makes a snarky comment about how written laws have ruined the honorable spirit of her people. Sevilin, "What's wrong with a little codification..." then "looks at Jenell and shuts up." Or words to that effect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotghroth Rhapsody Tracer Bullet Posted March 29, 2011 Share Posted March 29, 2011 Originally Posted By: ThirdParty Redbeard on oaths: "I guess now you have no chance of being a spy or assassin. Not if you swore an oath!" True, actually. Remember the story of Ali Baba the merchant? Many assassins, ninjas in particular, were (maybe not are, I'm sure Jason Bourne is laughing at me) honorable people. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted March 29, 2011 Share Posted March 29, 2011 Originally Posted By: Fflewddur Fflam: Phariton's Eye True, actually. Remember the story of Ali Baba the merchant? Many assassins, ninjas in particular, were (maybe not are, I'm sure Jason Bourne is laughing at me) honorable people. Is the tale of Ali Baba the one where Ali Baba's brother finds the cave full of treasure, but then the robbers find him and chop him up into pieces and display him as a warning? That doesn't seem very honorable to me. Besides, I don't recall many ninjas in the Arabian Nights. Maybe you're getting it confused with a Japanese legend... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unflappable Drayk Ceiling Durkheim Posted March 29, 2011 Share Posted March 29, 2011 There's a meaningful distinction between honor and morality in a more general sense. It's kind of nebulous, since codes of honor are moral codes of a sort, but there do seem to be a lot of fictional characters (and some real people) who would happily shoot another person, but only from the front. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotghroth Rhapsody Tracer Bullet Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 No, ninjas are Japanese primarily. The two statements are unrelated. As for the story, you're confusing it with the one in which whuzz-iz-name the leader of the the robbers stays for dinner at Ali's house. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Jerakeen Posted April 3, 2011 Share Posted April 3, 2011 Stop! This...bones...devouring...forever! ...undying horror. Sounds fun! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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