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Post by Dusk Fox on Jun 23, 2005 15:40:27 GMT
By Ishir, North Star has vanished! What... what... what unparalleled mastery of Assimilance!
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Post by outspaced on Jun 23, 2005 15:56:53 GMT
Lyrian? Do you mean Lyrisian?
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Post by Dusk Fox on Jun 23, 2005 16:05:54 GMT
No, he means Lyrian. So they are named in the Lone Wolf RPG.
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Post by outspaced on Jun 23, 2005 17:00:54 GMT
It comes to something when even Mongoose can't spell properly.
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Post by Dusk Fox on Jun 23, 2005 17:15:55 GMT
Hey, if Canadians can come from Canada (when you'd assume they came from Canadia), the Irish can come from Ireland, and the Spanish can come from Spain, then Lyrians can come from Lyris.
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Post by outspaced on Jun 23, 2005 20:19:13 GMT
Lyrians sound like a militant group of Renaissance music hooligans!
"Down with the pianoforté!" [Alt+130]
"Death to recorded music!"
Or maybe it's just me?
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Post by Dusk Fox on Jun 23, 2005 20:51:33 GMT
I think you're the only one who's associating it with the lyre, but I've been wrong before.
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Post by North Star on Jun 23, 2005 21:24:35 GMT
Well, it *might* be Lyrisian. I just instinctively chose Lyrian because it sounds less clumsy.
Tyrenis.
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Post by outspaced on Jun 24, 2005 9:10:59 GMT
Hey, if Canadians can come from Canada (when you'd assume they came from Canadia), the Irish can come from Ireland, and the Spanish can come from Spain, then Lyrians can come from Lyris. Yes, but Parisians come from Paris. @ RH:[Edit] Oh, I see. No, I'm not some piddling little Darklord. Ixiataaga is in fear of me.
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Post by Al on Jun 24, 2005 10:02:05 GMT
And Americans come from the "United States of America", not America, because America refers to the continent that the United States is on (since moving to the UK I marvel at how people use the term "America" while back in Canada we call it "The United States", yet we still call our southern neighbours Americans (unless you are the Memeber of Parliament for Mississauga Center, then you use terms which cannot be posted here, refering to their questionable parentage) Just some interesting thougths Al
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Post by Black Cat on Jun 24, 2005 15:22:47 GMT
yet we still call our southern neighbours Americans (unless you are the Memeber of Parliament for Mississauga Center, then you use terms which cannot be posted here, refering to their questionable parentage) Ah, the dangers of off the records conversations... Don't forget also that discussion that the ex-prime minister had with his counterpart of Belgium about the same guy.
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Post by Dusk Fox on Jun 24, 2005 16:34:48 GMT
It's because the USA has a stupid country name. Naming a country the United States of America is as silly as naming a child Third Son of the Parsons Family. "United Statesmen" sounds stupid as a nationality, so for brevity's sake, "Americans" just flows better. Unfortunately, everyone else who inhabits a continent with "America" in its name (also a stupid decision--North and South anything as a name is just a lack of imagination) takes exception to this. In Spanish-speaking countries to the south, some people actually go to the length of correcting the term “Americanos” with “Norte Americanos,” as if that’s somehow better (after all, that includes Canadians, Mexicans, and under strict geographical terms the entirety of Central America and the Antilles. In other words, most of the people in Central America who make this distinction are just changing “Americans” (generally accepted to refer to people from the USA) to “North Americans” (which actually includes them). If only our founding fathers could have had the foresight to name the company something original and less technically descriptive. Oh, and for the Canadians who call the USA “the United States” instead of “America”--Homer Simpson calls you guys “America, Junior.”
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Post by Black Cat on Jun 24, 2005 18:46:14 GMT
If only our founding fathers could have had the foresight to name the company something original and less technically descriptive. Well, go and tell this to the Mexicans too because the official name of their country is "United States of Mexico", but we usually just say "Mexico", just like for the "United States of America" we say "America".
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Post by Zipp on Jun 24, 2005 20:34:26 GMT
If only our founding fathers could have had the foresight to name the company something original and less technically descriptive. Well, go and tell this to the Mexicans too because the official name of their country is "United States of Mexico", but we usually just say "Mexico", just like for the "United States of America" we say "America". Well, lately there's been a lot of people calling us... nah, nevermind, I'm not getting into politics unless I know you all agree with me.
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Post by Dusk Fox on Jun 24, 2005 20:37:11 GMT
Yeah, but there is no other place in the world with the geographic name "Mexico" (New Mexico doesn't count and is an incredibly stupid state name trumped only by anything with a direction in it or Rhode Island, and Baja Mexico is part of the larger 'Mexico' country). America applies to both the continent that the USA is on and the continent directly south of it, as well as being attached to a number of islands. That's just stupid.
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