The Shattered City: OOC

Nathan of the FoS · Post by **Nathan of the FoS** » Thu Dec 03, 2009 12:33 am

DocBeard wrote:You might wonder, 'How did Eisenwald fit that big old hammer under his costume's lab coat.' but that is, unfortunately, classified information.

He had it well-adjusted.

NeoTiamat · Post by **NeoTiamat** » Thu Dec 03, 2009 8:20 am

I love flurries of well-meaning activity.

Alright, let's see.... Tomas and Cyrus are going with Katja, and Celeste, Agale, Kerrian, and Lia are staying at the party. Nerit is in absentia again.

DocBeard · Post by **DocBeard** » Thu Dec 03, 2009 11:30 pm

I like how Agale's language gets subtly more formal when he's caught off guard, Cronax. Nice touch, there.

Cronax · Post by **Cronax** » Thu Dec 03, 2009 11:48 pm

err.. I hadn't even consciously noticed I was doing that.

Nerit · Post by **Nerit** » Fri Dec 04, 2009 2:20 am

Yay, I'm back (mostly). Another essay and a final, but I have more free time now that classes are over.

A few notes:

P31 - I think the word Whistler was looking for was contrapposto

?

And sorry for the language I keep sneaking in. I can't help it. The foreigners all have to express themselves!

I'm really fascinated by vae, actually. It supports the academic pronunciation, being a close guess of the classical Latin. V=W, essentially. I so do not approve of Ecclesiastical Latin pronunciation.

Julius Caesar sounded like Iulius Kaiser! "Wehnee, Weedee, Wiki!"

Nathan of the FoS · Post by **Nathan of the FoS** » Fri Dec 04, 2009 3:00 am

Nerit wrote: It supports the academic pronunciation, being a close guess of the classical Latin. V=W, essentially. I so do not approve of Ecclesiastical Latin pronunciation.

Julius Caesar sounded like Iulius Kaiser! "Wehnee, Weedee, Wiki!"

How very English of you.

NeoTiamat · Post by **NeoTiamat** » Fri Dec 04, 2009 8:22 am

This sheds new light on the Life of Brian, it really does.

Though I've been hearing the C=K for ages. Cicero would've been Kikero, I think.

Rock of the Fraternity · Fri Dec 04, 2009 8:37 am

If these pronunciations are going to be accepted as official, a lot of the older scholars are going to be double-checking themselves in conversation.

Kaitou Kage · Post by **Kaitou Kage** » Fri Dec 04, 2009 10:46 am

Will be posting soon, trying to get a short paper finished.

DocBeard · Post by **DocBeard** » Fri Dec 04, 2009 1:10 pm

err.. I hadn't even consciously noticed I was doing that.

Oh, well, I'm sorry. I wasn't trying to be mean or anything; I thought it was a subtle way of showing either Agale's lack of experience with speaking Mordentish or just imply more about the character by showing how he uses formality as a shield in tense situations.

And speaking of tense situations, who's running bets that the doxie's growing hysteria is a sign of something more sinister?

Nathan of the FoS · Post by **Nathan of the FoS** » Fri Dec 04, 2009 2:19 pm

DocBeard wrote:And speaking of tense situations, who's running bets that the doxie's growing hysteria is a sign of something more sinister?

If it were real life, I would put my money on late-stage syphilis. In D&D, well, it could be anything.

The Whistler · Post by **The Whistler** » Sat Dec 05, 2009 1:05 am

Nerit wrote:P31 - I think the word Whistler was looking for was contrapposto ?

Yep! It's amazing how much Wikipedia can help when you're attempting to fake your character's background in art history.

Granted, it was easier to pull a reference to Italian renaissance sculpture when I could basically make up most of what the statue looked like in the first place. ("That totally looks like a Michaelangelo! Because you haven't explicitly said that it doesn't yet!")

Nerit · Post by **Nerit** » Sat Dec 05, 2009 7:12 pm

NeoTiamat wrote:This sheds new light on the Life of Brian, it really does.

Though I've been hearing the C=K for ages. Cicero would've been Kikero, I think.

NeoTiamat · Post by **NeoTiamat** » Sat Dec 05, 2009 7:15 pm

Favorite clip from that movie, hands down. It gains added hilarity when you've had to study Latin.

Kaitou Kage · Post by **Kaitou Kage** » Sun Dec 06, 2009 11:41 am

Posting rate may be diminished for the next week as I attempt to write my final papers.

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