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Gameplay => General Discussion => Topic started by: Adeli on August 09, 2004, 02:38:52 pm

Title: Why Not CIRCA?
Post by: Adeli on August 09, 2004, 02:38:52 pm: I searched, and found no previous posts...
I was looking at the currency for CB.
I noticed a trend.
Triangular coins > Tria
Hexagonal coins > Hexa
Octagonal coins > Octa
See the pattern?now:

Circular coins > Circles
It\'s quite stupid and doesn\'t matter at all, but I was just curious... why not call Circular coins \'Circa\' to comply with the naming conventions for all other coins? Once again, I know this is stupid...
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Post by: Moogie on August 09, 2004, 04:57:24 pm: Sounds good; maybe it was an oversight?
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Post by: Kiva on August 09, 2004, 05:02:20 pm: Hexagonal
Triangular
Octagonal
Circular

See the trend? Coins named Circ or Circu sounds funny, so they decided to put some french into it, and call it Le Circ. That sounds dumb too, though, so instead they\'ve called it Le Circ The Other Way Around, aka Circle. The end. :)
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Post by: Zeraph on August 09, 2004, 05:11:32 pm: well I am going to call them \"Circs\" for short... :]
I could be something people call them in the game, It doesn\'t have to officially \"Circ\"...

Edit: OT: Yes! my 250th post I am Triple As now :D
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Post by: FESFES on August 09, 2004, 10:27:55 pm: Well theres a brand called Circa so it might be because of copyright reasons

EDIT and whats the diff the players shorten it themselvs anyway \"I got 73 C\'s\"
C what I mean^^ (oh god that was cheezy)
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Post by: Adeli on August 10, 2004, 01:29:41 am: Thanks Grono, but I did stress that I know it means nothing... I just like the sound of circa. They will probably just end up being nicknamed, T, H, O, C\'s anyway. I made Forum As last night and didn\'t realise, heh.
[EDIT] Circa will always hold a place in my heart...
...or maybe not
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Post by: Edooo on August 16, 2004, 01:48:47 am: I vote for circas, they fit into the trend better, circles sounds kinda cheesy. But they prolly will end up being called C\'s because of the laziness that has overcome the world.

OT: my shoes are Circa ^^
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Post by: druke on August 16, 2004, 03:25:24 am: Quote
Originally posted by Zeraph
well I am going to call them \"Circs\" for short... :]
I could be something people call them in the game, It doesn\'t have to officially \"Circ\"...

Edit: OT: Yes! my 250th post I am Triple As now :D

here we start the custom planeshift lingo..whats next ...
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Post by: Zeraph on August 16, 2004, 03:31:17 pm: in the middle ages they had \"custom lingo\" but anyway I think I\'ll just call them C\'s aswell (just becouse I am more lazy then you :D)...
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Post by: Halvord on August 16, 2004, 10:58:42 pm: I\'m going to fight laziness to the best of my ability by being confused by anything except for Planeshift type speech. I would rather take 500 Tria than 1000 T\'s. I\'m a stinker.
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Post by: Melbourne on August 17, 2004, 05:58:01 am: Quote
Originally posted by druke
here we start the custom planeshift lingo..whats next ...

Also known as slang, which every language and every culture has.
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Post by: Levski on August 17, 2004, 06:08:32 am: Heh....

\"Wibble!\"

By the way, I like Circa better, who cares if it doesn\'t fit the 4 letter trend (sorry Grono)?
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Post by: Waylander on August 17, 2004, 08:50:04 am: Circa eh
I\'ll take Circa 1300 - ah yes around the time when Longbow was king :P

Circa means around a certain year.

I take Cricles because Grono is cool, and I am going to use Circa(as shown above) a lot as it is a cool word.
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Post by: Adeli on August 17, 2004, 01:07:36 pm: Waylander I know that it means that, and it is a cool word isn\'t it? I like the sound of it.
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Post by: Waylander on August 18, 2004, 09:08:42 am: I know I love the sound of it. It is words like that that make you want to learn languages :P

But I still think they should keep it as circle
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Post by: FlippySeal on August 18, 2004, 03:38:38 pm: Quote
I\'ll take Circa 1300 - ah yes around the time when Longbow was king

You know who invented the longbow? The Welsh! My father\'s a Welshman.
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Post by: Xordan on August 18, 2004, 03:49:05 pm: Booo, Welsh is t3h sux. I\'ve had to learn the horrible language for 9 years :/ Are you sure we were clever enough to actually invent summin???!

heh, and i\'m just gonna call them T\'s H\'s O\'s and C\'s. :P
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Post by: Seytra on August 18, 2004, 10:36:36 pm: Well, the thing is that usually names for things just emerge, they aren\'t created according to rules. Therefore, it would be special for Yliakum to not have some quirks in the language. So circles, by not fitting the convention, add to realism. Maybe they\'ll change the currency one day and call it the \"Yliako\", with \"Centyls\" as 1/100th of an Yliako... :) You know, to unify the currency of all the dungeons, other cities and the surface or whatever! ;)
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Post by: Waylander on August 19, 2004, 12:53:47 am: lol, very clever there Seytra

Longbow=Welsh, Welsh and English longbowmen at this time were the fear of any noble. Archery at this time was one of the most popular past times in England, and so any peasant could use a longbow. This annoyed noble men because the nobles would always wish to go into battle on top of a horse which were amazingly vulnerable to the longbows.

I could go on.

But again I am all for circles.
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Post by: Adeli on August 19, 2004, 04:35:00 pm: bah, you\'re all boring, CIRCA I say...
Seytra, don\'t overanalyse, and you are wrong.
Conventions make realism... you think we live in an individualistic world? HAH, we wish.
CONFORM CONFORM CONFORM
Individuality is what people who want to be \'different\' say, and then they act \'different\' by doing the same thing as hundreds of other people, as opposed to millions or billions, it\'s still conformity.
It\'s unoriginal, it\'s conformity, it\'s life!

All currency has a convention, so it should too.
CIRCA CIRCA CIRCA!!!
Even the crystals are conventionalised... in a way..

Circle is t3h sucks.

OT: The movie \'King Arthur\' screwed history... made me sad.
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Post by: Seytra on August 19, 2004, 09:56:21 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Adeli
bah, you\'re all boring, CIRCA I say...
Seytra, don\'t overanalyse, and you are wrong.
Conventions make realism... you think we live in an individualistic world? HAH, we wish.
CONFORM CONFORM CONFORM
Individuality is what people who want to be \'different\' say, and then they act \'different\' by doing the same thing as hundreds of other people, as opposed to millions or billions, it\'s still conformity.
It\'s unoriginal, it\'s conformity, it\'s life!

This isn\'t about individualism, it\'s about the emergence of names. There are plenty of examples in any language: things actually did have a supposedly official name but everybody continued calling them something else and thus the official name has become forgotten. Individuality would be if I\'d call the things \"Fizzgrid\" instead of \"Circle\" or \"Circa\" or whatever everybody else calls them. It\'d be stupid, because conventions are important to allow communication (that\'s why conventions alwys form, even if not governed by some supervising body). If everybody would simply refer to everything by their own standards, nobody would know what someone else is talking about at all.
Also, there are only so many things one can do. Individualism is about doing what you really like, not about being different for the sake of being different.
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Originally posted by Adeli
All currency has a convention, so it should too.

Yeah, but most are utterly stupid IMO. And they\'re not really logical and some have been overridden as I explained above.
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Originally posted by Adeli
CIRCA CIRCA CIRCA!!!
Even the crystals are conventionalised... in a way..

Actually, I don\'t really care what they\'re going to be called, as long as it\'s easy to type and doesn\'t sound stupid. It will converge to something anyway, and what that will be, only time will tell (probably circa or circs IMO).
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Originally posted by Adeli
Circle is t3h sucks.

How about \"|?4\\,/57|_||?|-|\", then? ;) Actually, they should maybe be called \"disks\", because that\'s what they are, anyway.
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Originally posted by Adeli
OT: The movie \'King Arthur\' screwed history... made me sad.

I don\'t know the movie, but all of them screw history! Just think about all these WWII movies glorifying America and these western movies, and whatnot! Who gets to make the movie will make themselves look good, history is written by the winners.