Craig on 17 Jul 2003 14:27:00 -0000


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RE: [spoon-discuss] Where do we go from here?


>>>>Or just make everyone equal like in my c-p-p </plug>
>>>-*ignores this*-
>>
>>*won't let you*

>-What does "c-p-p" mean?-

counter-proto-proposal, which I am *not* going to write out every time.

>>>What about Dark Asha'man? Or, if you want to be spiffy, something like
>>Asha'Shadar, "Guardian of the Shadow?"-
>>
>>No. No trying to make up your own Old Tongue compounds. It doesn't work,
>>because there are no regular rules to the Old Tongue. Jordan made up bits
as
>>he went along rather than trying for a real conlang.

>-If there are no regular rules, then why can't I make up my own? Hmm...
"Asha'Shadar" doesn't roll off the tongue anyway. I like "Ashadar,"
>but that sounds a lot like "Mashadar," which is entirely different.-

I suppose you can make up your own. It's guaranteed to be entirely worng,
IMO, but it is also guaranteed to be as right as anything new in the books.

>>>-I think they try to kill you and either they do or you join... in the
Age
>>of Legends, they probably went online to
>>>www.darkfriend.greatlord.evl and filled out the application there.
>>
>>Wow. That's really amazing.
>>
>>I suppose it's inevitable... first there was the lumber cartel, and now
>>this.

>-You've lost me, but then again, I'm too tired to think straight...-

There is no Lumber Cartel.

>>>That reminded me of something unrelated. You know how non-US countries
have
>>two-letter suffixes to their URLs (.uk for the UK, .fr for
>>>Freedom, .ch for Switzerland, .tv for some poor nation that sold its
ending
>>to Americans who now clutter it with television crap)? Do any of
>>>them have a .bn ending?-
>>
>>I don't think so.
>>
>>Also, .tv is Tuvalu. And one of their principal exports is now domain
names.
>>Tonga (.to) does okay, with all those go.to and similar.
>>
>>What is .evl really, anyway?
>>
>-.evl is nothing unless you add in an "i," and get "evil." Although given
that .com, .org, .edu, .net, .gov, and .mil are all the first
>three letters of a word, I guess it should be .evi.-

I meant where does the domain come from?

 -- Teucer

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 -carbon

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