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Gameplay => General Discussion => Topic started by: clint8565 on December 17, 2004, 04:27:35 pm

Title: Enkidukai - Enkidu (is there a relation)
Post by: clint8565 on December 17, 2004, 04:27:35 pm

I don\'t know if anyone else noticed this or not, but Enkidukai are cat-like people which tells me anyways that they\'re a sort of \"wild people\" and there is a character named Enkidu from the Gilgamesh (or the Epic of Gilgamesh) in ancient history (I just wrote an exam) who is a guy who lived in the wild, grew up in the wild and then was brought into civilization. Just curious if there happened to be any relation.

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Post by: sashok on December 17, 2004, 04:46:33 pm

Good job on research.  The name could have been borrowed who knows, but Enki\'s are not exactly wild in the way this kid grew up, etc.  So this Enkidu is like Tarzan eh?  Maybe the first idea for a name Devs had was Tarzanukai ? :D

Title: I didn't research anything
Post by: clint8565 on December 17, 2004, 05:24:08 pm

I just had a class on ancient history, I learned what a lot of stuff in games actually is... or could have been taken from. I was surprised at how many places and names and stuff were in ancient history and games, they just added a suffix or prefix. Weird the stuff you find out from school, lol.

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Post by: The-Sink on December 18, 2004, 04:06:05 pm

check out Norse Mythology if u\'ve played RPGs such as the FF series, diablo and some other games you\'ll recognize lots of names.

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Post by: Keknehv on December 18, 2004, 06:47:14 pm

Actually, what I find interesting is how many derivatives you find in languages when you know ancient ones.

At my school, three years of a foreign language is required, and they start everyone with Latin. Then you start seeing words made from Latin everywhere.

As a sidenote, I\'d rather learn Greek, but I guess Latin will have to do :D.

Also, to the uninitiated, a derivative is a word in a language that has roots in another language.

For example, the English advertise is a derivative of the two latin words,
ad--to, towards, at, near (yes, I know it\'s weird), and
verto--to turn
So therefore, to advertise is to turn someone towards something. Cool, eh?

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Post by: swift on December 19, 2004, 12:24:20 am

Yep - Learning latin rocks !

amandus - a -um = needing to be loved

So amanda = ?

Now try veranda :) :) :)

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Post by: hook on December 19, 2004, 01:03:01 pm

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Originally posted by swift
Yep - Learning latin rocks !

sure does!! :D *looks back on his 8 tedious years of latin torture* ..latin builds character ;)

Title: latin... (shudder)
Post by: dragonfire999 on December 20, 2004, 01:16:59 am

still taking latin
now that word order is screwy O.o
:ob

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Post by: Zagro on December 20, 2004, 08:48:30 pm

for me latin sucks... learn Portuguese or Spanish.
Both come from latin and are active languages