Drog Black Tooth
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Pretty much every native English speaker that isn't a hick knows to pronounce it as Ar-Kay-Num. Same rules as 'arcane', FFS, how difficult can it be.
That is if you think it's an English word. But it isn't, for me at least. Like "obscura" in the end of the game's title, they resemble more latin than english and the pronunciation there would be ar-ka-numPretty much every native English speaker that isn't a hick knows to pronounce it as Ar-Kay-Num. Same rules as 'arcane', FFS, how difficult can it be.
Pretty much every native English speaker that isn't a hick knows to pronounce it as Ar-Kay-Num. Same rules as 'arcane', FFS, how difficult can it be.
BTW, its written arcanum, not arkaynum.
You don't realize how painful english-speaking people pronouncing latin words sound for a non native english speaker who learned latin...
"some deadfucking language"... indeed. Some completely randomly chosen obscure dead language. I hear you.You don't realize how painful english-speaking people pronouncing latin words sound for a non native english speaker who learned latin...
is it more or less painful than reading hundreds of posts written by autistic ethnics butthurt that some dumb fucking word from some dead fucking language is being mispronounced in some fucking videogame about elves shooting each other with colt .45s
You misunderstood. I'm not a follower of Lore, I just liked some of his stuff (most of what he makes is fucking horrible to be honest). I'm well willing to believe all this, it even fits, this is a fucking guy in his 40ties who not so long time ago had fucking blue hair and plays Kingdom Hearts and treats this franchise seriously - I mean come on, perfect pedo. I just want proof. Besides, I have a friend who is a fan and who doesn't believe in any of this, BECAUSE LORE IS SO COOL AND I LIKE HIM. I would like to have something to show him.You can believe it or not it is your choice:
"some deadfucking language"... indeed. Some completely randomly chosen obscure dead language. I hear you.You don't realize how painful english-speaking people pronouncing latin words sound for a non native english speaker who learned latin...
is it more or less painful than reading hundreds of posts written by autistic ethnics butthurt that some dumb fucking word from some dead fucking language is being mispronounced in some fucking videogame about elves shooting each other with colt .45s
On the other hand Tim Cain is they guy who said "...it was 18th century and you had locomotives..." so i suspect he is the kind of guy who thinks plural of arcanum is arcanums.
You don't realize how painful english-speaking people pronouncing latin words sound for a non native english speaker who learned latin...
All this written and You are the one bitching about meaningless posts..."some deadfucking language"... indeed. Some completely randomly chosen obscure dead language. I hear you.You don't realize how painful english-speaking people pronouncing latin words sound for a non native english speaker who learned latin...
is it more or less painful than reading hundreds of posts written by autistic ethnics butthurt that some dumb fucking word from some dead fucking language is being mispronounced in some fucking videogame about elves shooting each other with colt .45s
I went away for a bit to ponder this post, thinking it was like a zen koan or some shit, like completely meaningless at first glance - what does the use of Latin in a game's title have to do with annoying posts on an internet forum some 16 years after said games release?? - but once I got it I'd ascend to a higher plane of being and get to play on a xylophone with the Archangel Michael in heaven (or whatever the Buddhist equivalent is; I neither know nor care, but, if you do, here's a great opportunity to feel superior to me). But then I realised that Latin is still fucking dead outside the Vatican, and the most likely reason it was so completely randomly chosen was because of that, and the consequent old-timey, ritualistic and mystical connotations it has for a modern audience. EXPELLIARMUS!!!! etc.*
* in this context, pronounced with a soft 'c'
You don't realize how painful english-speaking people pronouncing latin words sound for a non native english speaker who learned latin...
LOL. No-one is speaking it as their first language. It is a dead language. That doesn't mean there aren't any academic standards how to teach Latin and how to spell Latin words.You don't realize how painful english-speaking people pronouncing latin words sound for a non native english speaker who learned latin...
Is there any plane of existence whereby when Latin was used as the common tongue there wouldn't have been innumerable regional variations with as much variation as modern variations produce? Isn't the only reason you feel there's some kind of correct way to pronounce something solely due to the language being spoken by so few people that there's not enough people using it to produce variation.
How is this post in any way related to what i wrote ? Serious question, no smartassery on my part (at least in this case) ?On the other hand Tim Cain is they guy who said "...it was 18th century and you had locomotives..." so i suspect he is the kind of guy who thinks plural of arcanum is arcanums.
You just know that there must be a fuckload of junior employee developers who, after spending the first 3 years of their career researching the setting in the 8 minutes of spare time per day they've got between their ridiculous work hours and the necessities of eating/sleeping, and getting shat on for getting it so badly wrong, are just dying to make a game that presents itself as a FO3/4 clone, except every time you enter the 'hacking' minigame, you just get dumped to dos prompt. Raising the skill level results in a password-restricted PDF series of text books for 'coding in C++' being emailed to you (none of that easily by-passable Adobe restrictions either, I mean some Blackberry Watchdox shit). Every skill level after that unlocks a chapter of the text book to read in your own time. Eventually the player may or may not be able to use that knowledge to reverse-engineer the game's source code and change the in-game objects so that the in-game computer terminal can now be switched on.
Critical failure automatically emails your location, bank account details, logs of all previous hacking attempts, and address for service of court documents to their publisher's lawyers.
There is no in-game way of achieving critical success, but if the game's logs determine that you've obviously stolen someone else's savegame via 'social engineering hack' instead of wasting your own time, then it's recorded as a critical success for steam achievement purposes.
On the other hand Tim Cain is they guy who said "...it was 18th century and you had locomotives..." so i suspect he is the kind of guy who thinks plural of arcanum is arcanums.
You just know that there must be a fuckload of junior employee developers who, after spending the first 3 years of their career researching the setting in the 8 minutes of spare time per day they've got between their ridiculous work hours and the necessities of eating/sleeping, and getting shat on for getting it so badly wrong, are just dying to make a game that presents itself as a FO3/4 clone, except every time you enter the 'hacking' minigame, you just get dumped to dos prompt. Raising the skill level results in a password-restricted PDF series of text books for 'coding in C++' being emailed to you (none of that easily by-passable Adobe restrictions either, I mean some Blackberry Watchdox shit). Every skill level after that unlocks a chapter of the text book to read in your own time. Eventually the player may or may not be able to use that knowledge to reverse-engineer the game's source code and change the in-game objects so that the in-game computer terminal can now be switched on.
Critical failure automatically emails your location, bank account details, logs of all previous hacking attempts, and address for service of court documents to their publisher's lawyers.
There is no in-game way of achieving critical success, but if the game's logs determine that you've obviously stolen someone else's savegame via 'social engineering hack' instead of wasting your own time, then it's recorded as a critical success for steam achievement purposes.
LOL. No-one is speaking it as their first language. It is a dead language. That doesn't mean there aren't any academic standards how to teach Latin and how to spell Latin words.You don't realize how painful english-speaking people pronouncing latin words sound for a non native english speaker who learned latin...
Is there any plane of existence whereby when Latin was used as the common tongue there wouldn't have been innumerable regional variations with as much variation as modern variations produce? Isn't the only reason you feel there's some kind of correct way to pronounce something solely due to the language being spoken by so few people that there's not enough people using it to produce variation.
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How is this post in any way related to what i wrote ? Serious question, no smartassery on my part (at least in this case) ?On the other hand Tim Cain is they guy who said "...it was 18th century and you had locomotives..." so i suspect he is the kind of guy who thinks plural of arcanum is arcanums.
You just know that there must be a fuckload of junior employee developers who, after spending the first 3 years of their career researching the setting in the 8 minutes of spare time per day they've got between their ridiculous work hours and the necessities of eating/sleeping, and getting shat on for getting it so badly wrong, are just dying to make a game that presents itself as a FO3/4 clone, except every time you enter the 'hacking' minigame, you just get dumped to dos prompt. Raising the skill level results in a password-restricted PDF series of text books for 'coding in C++' being emailed to you (none of that easily by-passable Adobe restrictions either, I mean some Blackberry Watchdox shit). Every skill level after that unlocks a chapter of the text book to read in your own time. Eventually the player may or may not be able to use that knowledge to reverse-engineer the game's source code and change the in-game objects so that the in-game computer terminal can now be switched on.
Critical failure automatically emails your location, bank account details, logs of all previous hacking attempts, and address for service of court documents to their publisher's lawyers.
There is no in-game way of achieving critical success, but if the game's logs determine that you've obviously stolen someone else's savegame via 'social engineering hack' instead of wasting your own time, then it's recorded as a critical success for steam achievement purposes.
1. It's not a Latin word, you pretentious, hypercorrecting fuck.I already knew that (most) native english speakers cannot pronounce latin words properly.
FFS, at least one sane person here.No-one knows what the actual correct prononciation of Latin words are, it's an extinct language and all we have to go on is the way the Catholic church pronounces stuff, which is Church Latin in any case and not the classical form. You pretentious fuck.I already knew that (most) native english speakers cannot pronounce latin words properly.