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Gameplay => Newbie Help (Start Here) => Topic started by: hook on July 09, 2006, 12:31:59 pm
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Lately I noticed that people know about different Enki houses/subvariants. I couldn't find any information about that in the "races" section of the manual ...soooooo, I'm wondering where can I inform myself more about it. My char's a menki and it'd be high time to decide where he comes from, I think.
p.s. I hope words like "menki" and "fenki" would stop to be used IC ...for me it spoils a bit the role-playing :(
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The library of Jayose holds a book that talks about Ojaveda, IIRC.
There's a little description about Utlics in there, the tents that some enkidukais use.
Give that book a look. (And the rest of them too :P)
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Thanks, I will.
I already learned a few things (also about swamps) in Jayose's library ...didn't notice the books on Enkidukai though.
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Personally, I think that "menki" and "fenki" are fine words for RPing. After all, we don't say "male human" or "female human" all the time. It adds a bit of Yliakum-exclusive slang, which is exactly the sort of thing we need. (However, this of course presents the problem of why there aren't special words for male and female elves/dwarves/diaboli/ynnwn.)
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Although I agree with you on the fact that this could have been acceptable if it was Yliakum slang. But I feel that "menki" and "fenki" just sound too artificial to be slang anywhere.
I agree that we don't say "male human" and "female human", but the word therefore are "man" and "woman" (and not "muman" or "fuman").
I could happily live with words that sounded like and Enkidukai would say them (for example, see in game how you are adressed in Akkaio!).
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Although I agree with you on the fact that this could have been acceptable if it was Yliakum slang. But I feel that "menki" and "fenki" just sound too artificial to be slang anywhere..
Slang is artificial...... ::)
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Slang is artificial...... ::)
That is right you puny muman!!! :devil:
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Ever tried talking about Ojaveda, and architecture to inhabitants of said city?
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Ever tried talking about Ojaveda, and architecture to inhabitants of said city?
I did ...I learned a bit about Dsars and so on. I just wondered since it started to seem to me as if the distinguishing of different Enkidukai tribes became common knowledge on the forums. It made me think that slowly I would have to decide which tribe my char comes from - that is really importaint for my char because of his past and ancestors.
I'm happy with the answers I got :)
I just wanted to know where I could find more ...it seemed so common to me already that I thought maybe there's more info online now and I just can't find it.
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iee ei kinda like saying "my menki" and what not...and my guild is felicitious fenkis so i dunnos i kinda like syaing menki and fenki :D
besides im sure to dont have ot refer to it like that if you dont really want to :D
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p.s. I hope words like "menki" and "fenki" would stop to be used IC ...for me it spoils a bit the role-playing :(
I agree with you there, it sounds more like some sort of "MSN" or other chat program language.
besides im sure to dont have ot refer to it like that if you dont really want to
That is a solution... yet it still spoils it somewhat.
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The character I play is a male Enkidukai and it is perfectly IC to use the affectionate contractions of "menki" and "fenki" in conversations. Searching Dictionary.com produced "No entry found for menki." and "No entry found for fenki." -so there is no OOC context for "menki" and "fenki" in the Real Life world that would be unknown to my character.
As for Enkidukai -or any other race- characters not to use slang terms in IC? Well, there is at least one NPC in Ojaveda who addresses me as "Tabbei" when I say "Hello" to them. Maybe that is because my character is an Enkidukai.
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"Tabbei" isn't slang - it's a word in the Enkidukai tongue.
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1. Tabei has one b.
2. Well, maybe "menki" and "fenki" are also Enkidukai words. You never know.
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*Seeln thinks hard to start calling other player "mumans", "fynwins", "mdias", etc.
...makes you wish to be a Kran, eh? ::|
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"Tabbei" isn't slang - it's a word in the Enkidukai tongue.
Speaking of the Enkidukai tongue, does anyone know if there is a list of words and phrases posted here on the forum or anywhere else? I have a listing of some basic phrases, but I would like to learn more.
Mo samoti, Tabei