15 Jan 05

[Schissel]

Horse enters press room, sits on chair, falls through, mutters that they should make sturdier chairs. I don't know if I understand, is she saying We can't have them take us with Sow - that if they take the town, we still have to get out (which makes perfect sense)?

-Eric comes prepanicked and prebefuddled (or is that, prefuddled?)

[Quoting_mungo]

Dang, I thought I'd made the accent understandable enough. No, what she's saying is "we can't have them taking us's (our) white sow".

It'll probably be further explained with the next update.


-Alexandra

[Schissel]

Dang, I thought I'd made the accent understandable enough. No, what she's saying is "we can't have them taking us's (our) white sow".

It'll probably be further explained with the next update.


-Alexandra

Every time I tell myself, no more posts with only four hours of sleep, I break my own rule. Well, almost every time.
Fits in with the ways my history professor mentioned, for the naming of places. Such as, say Newton, whose derivation... yes.
Eric

[Quoting_mungo]

Several of the town names used in Erigineeaverse are in some way derieved from their location or similar.

Avelyon - (Ave) Lion, suitable for the seat of the Winged Lioness.
Loch Lyeon - again, derieved from 'lion', and located by a lake
Herkrip - Grip, which is Swedish for gryphon

Only two more towns I can recall offhand have been named, one of which is Sihainne (which I suppose with some good will you could get to resemble 'stallion') the other of which was mentioned in the story I wrote before OMW, and I can't recall the name of it right now.


-Alexandra

[Schissel]

Fair enough, I'd think!
Though I wonder (wait, wait a few days) whether they think the Grivjon are after a sow, a child, a pony, ... (or "sow" just being their way to refer to something of value, as it's been used here to mean the opposite (the expression "making a silk purse out of a sow's ear", for making something lovely out of something common)...
Eric

[Schissel]

Well, the thanks you get! I'll have you know I was five-year-running Drop the Pig winner in all of Greater Sow! he considers saying, but doesn't... I assume not.

[Quoting_mungo]

Well... She's a very squirmy pig when she wants to be.


-Alexandra

[Schissel]

Well... She's a very squirmy pig when she wants to be.


-Alexandra

It's a good thing he's also the local Chase the Pig champion five years running too, then. Unfortunately, I'm guessing so's the sow. <announcer>We rejoin our heroes in the middle of an exhilirating match..</announcer>
Eric

[Schissel]

The very thing, the very thing. To be said four times fast, that is.

(and watches as the threads of the story get closer and a llama is attacked by Colone, Grivjon raiders, and Eight-Leg Pony relentless all... perhaps she would have been safer just being carried)

(realizing who the Llama is, considers editing this but decides to leave it as a testament to why, again, he should not be posting things at 10 pip emma. Again. Still, it makes an amusing image, if an odd misunderstanding.)

Eric

[Schissel]

(Unwisely continuing to use this thread a bit more instead of, oh, starting a new one, he...)
Particularly nice exchange/sequence in today's comic, I thought. (And Attention Llouston, we have lost the Llama...)
Eric