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That really should be wolves - yes? Or are wolfs not wolves? <grins> It occurs nine times in planetinfo.plist (I've changed mine).
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Given that Oolite takes place eight centuries in the future, it's only remarkable that English is so well-preserved ;-) Maybe it's thanks to the automated translators that convert the myriads of alien dialects into your own dialect.
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Perhaps they are evil because they attempt to corrupt the language. 8)
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Clearly there has been some linguistic drift over the centuries, and what they are now calling "tree wolfs" are the creatures that, in a more primitive time and place, were known as "drop bears". :D
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Malacandra wrote: ↑Mon Sep 25, 2017 3:59 pm
Clearly there has been some linguistic drift over the centuries, and what they are now calling "tree wolfs" are the creatures that, in a more primitive time and place, were known as "drop bears". :D

Both logical and utterly plausible! 8)
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Astrobe wrote: ↑Mon Sep 25, 2017 2:15 pm
Maybe it's thanks to the automated translators that convert the myriads of alien dialects into your own dialect.
This is actually mildly ;) close to the truth. (Except its a generator rather than translator.)

A planet might be "\x82\x81 for \x8A but \x88 by \x89"

where..
\x82 --> "very ", "mildly ", "most ", "reasonably ", ""
\x81 --> "fabled", "notable", "well known", "famous", "noted"
\x88 --> "beset", "plagued", "ravaged", "cursed", "scourged"
etc..

\x89 --> "\x96 civil war", "\x9B \x98 \x99s", "a \x9B disease", "\x96 earthquakes", "\x96 solar activity"
\x9B --> "killer", "deadly", "evil", "lethal", "vicious"
\x98 --> "\x9B", "mountain", "edible", "tree", "spotted"
\x99 --> "\x9F", "\xA0", "\x87oid", "\x93", "\x92"
\x9F --> "shrew", "beast", "bison", "snake", "wolf"
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Welcome to the Admiralty, Commodore! Pink gins all round!


On-topic: wolfs is a verb.
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Cody wrote: ↑Sun Oct 22, 2017 12:46 pm
Welcome to the Admiralty, Commodore! Pink gins all round!
Oooohhh .. thank you!
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Cody wrote: ↑Sun Oct 22, 2017 12:46 pm
On-topic: wolfs is a verb.
Which begs the question, just what is the tree wolfing down? :lol:
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Exactly!
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Diziet Sma wrote: ↑Sun Oct 22, 2017 5:22 pm
Cody wrote: ↑Sun Oct 22, 2017 12:46 pm
On-topic: wolfs is a verb.
Which begs the question, just what is the tree wolfing down? :lol:
Haven't you read your Tolkein? The trees are Ents, and Ents wolf wolves.
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RockDoctor wrote: ↑Sun Feb 11, 2018 6:54 pm
Diziet Sma wrote: ↑Sun Oct 22, 2017 5:22 pm
Cody wrote: ↑Sun Oct 22, 2017 12:46 pm
On-topic: wolfs is a verb.
Which begs the question, just what is the tree wolfing down? :lol:
Haven't you read your Tolkein? The trees are Ents, and Ents wolf wolves.
:lol: Well played, sir!

I must've mis-read.. all this time, I thought Ents ate orcs and goblins. :wink:
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Diziet Sma wrote,
Diziet Sma wrote:
I must've mis-read.. all this time, I thought Ents ate orcs and goblins
Well those orcs and goblins did ride wolves, but wolfing seems a bit hasty to me. Surely an ent would feel that anything worth eating is worth taking a long time to eat.
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Orcs? Goblins? Elves?
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Cody wrote: ↑Tue Feb 13, 2018 9:56 pm
Orcs? Goblins? Elves?
Fictional lovelies. Sort of like low-tech Thargoids.
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