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10-31-2007, 07:49 AM
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Originally Posted by Tricky  How would you go about pronouncing bloedzuiger then, Fable? And how did those crafty Polish know English people would like it so much? And I had no idea egel was German for leech. It means hedgehog in Dutch.  | According to a few company reps I've spoken with over the years, the biggest market for RPGs remains the US. Stands to reason a developer would simply use a word that seems sonorous in both English and a variety of other languages to describe a monster. Lord Dunsany, the pionnering fantasy writer of the early 20th century, did this sort of thing all the time. So did Tolkien, whose use of language derived from him.
As to what makes it impressive: three syllables, a pair of "heavier" dipthongs, a glottal stop, and the use of a partword that looks to English speakers like "blood." Quote: |
Somewhere Johannes Gutenberg is having a good deal of fun over all of this.
| Out of curiosity, why Gutenberg? He was only the first European to "invent" moveable typeface. He had no interest in language as such, and was preceded in the invention he's normally associated with by Bi Sheng, around 1000 ACE.
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