the word for all player species

[Seytra]

Originally posted by Robinmagus
Char?? (short for character) short and simple. its what i remeber useing in MB. Why not here?

So what is a \"char\" IC-wise?

[Icefalcon]

Its Yliaki... don\'t argue.

[Efflixi Aduro]

I like Yliaki, has a nice ring to it.

[Jakob]

Yeah, I like Yliak too.  It is a cool sounding word.

[Kaseijin]

here here Yliaki it is

one suggestion..how bout scrapping the singular version
so you would say
i am an Yliaki
and not
i am an Yliak

[Robinmagus]

O god. i cant believe your takeing a part in this icefalcon. to stoop all the way down to my level!!! well. whatever u wanna call it. i choose \"char\"

BTW: if u dont know what it really means. u dont need to know. those times are long gone

[ps0705]

Just wanted to say, Yliaki sounds good for plural. Though I would like to say that Yliakan sounds better for singular, at least in my ears. The last \"an\" part would be pronounced the same way as the \"an\" part in Human.

[Serax]

but if you say Yliakan in stead of Yliak, then what is the sense of Yliaki for plural. That would have to be Yliakans, just like it\'s humans and not humi. And because Yliaki sounds much better then Yliakans, we should not say Yliakan.

only the question is indeed, should singular be Yliak or Yliaki. I\'m not sure yet what I think about that...

[Seytra]

Originally posted by Robinmagus
i choose \"char\"

BTW: if u dont know what it really means. u dont need to know. those times are long gone

Be sure to try that on my chars IC.

\"char\": entirely OOC definition of the database entry that is used to interact with the game world by the player.

\"Yliaki\": both IC term for everyone living in Yliakum, and also OOC term for the same thing, percieved as consistent world instead of an abstract creation (i.e., program).

\"humi\" sounds quite funny. All dwarfoids are humi!

I don\'t know whether to prefer \"Yliakan\" over \"Yliak\", or vice-versa. Both would be possible, for the language quirks outlined previously (basicly, in languages no construction is crazy enough to be impossible to appear). Let\'s roll a die...
/roll 1
Seytra rolled a 1 sided die for a 1. This means... whatever I require right now.

[steuben]

adding the \'i\' is the rule for pluralizing in some ancient language, greek or latin or something like that. so if yliaki is plural dropping the \'i\' gives you yliak, the singular.