Getting to Know Each Other = July Edition

[TGP]

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5 hours ago, Pezler the Polychromatic said:

Pssssshhhh silly humans, if I gave you an extra 4 hours then you'd find some way to waste that extra time in meetings.

One could only hope they'd be D&D Group meetings.

[Jokemeister]

11 hours ago, TGP said:

Question for July 19: How many hours, Q, would you add to the day??

 

<condescending tone>

 

No, no, no, no, no, no, NO!  How little do you mortals understand time.  Must you be so linear?

 

Sigh.  I'll try to use small words so that your miniscule mind can comprehend.  

 

The number of hours in the day doesn't matter.  Try to get this through your puny brain.  We exist outside the space-time continuum.  We have as much time as we mean to.

 

I had such high hopes for you, TGP. I thought you were a bit more ... evolved than the rest of your species. But now I realize you're just as weak as all the others.  I believed in you. I thought you had potential.

 

But apparently I was wrong. May whatever god you believe in <snorts> have mercy on your soul.

 

[lazylich]

11 hours ago, TGP said:

Question for July 19: How many hours, Q, would you add to the day??

 

Although I'm pretty busy with work most of the time and have at least double the hobbies I really ought to, my real problem is motivation and time management, not hours in the day.

[TGP]

Question for July 20: Do you like coined names?

[malefactus]

1 minute ago, TGP said:

Question for July 20: Do you like coined names?

 

Could you explain what you mean by a "coined name"?

[TGP]

Thanks for asking Malefactus. 

 

Eldrick is a coined name.  I suppose all names are at some point coined, ....made up by somebody. But for purposes of today's question:

 

James & Tiberius are not coined names...they've been around too long to know who made them. 

 

Sheldor & Eldrick are coined names...those are new and the perpetrators inventors can be identified.

 

Thoughts on parents doing such things to their offspring or players doing such things to their RPG characters would be apt responses. 

Edited July 20, 2017 by TGP

[ttuckerman]

And here I thought it was Penny.

[Crowley]

11 hours ago, Jokemeister said:

 

<condescending tone>

 

No, no, no, no, no, no, NO!  How little do you mortals understand time.  Must you be so linear?

 

Sigh.  I'll try to use small words so that your miniscule mind can comprehend.  

 

The number of hours in the day doesn't matter.  Try to get this through your puny brain.  We exist outside the space-time continuum.  We have as much time as we mean to.

 

I had such high hopes for you, TGP. I thought you were a bit more ... evolved than the rest of your species. But now I realize you're just as weak as all the others.  I believed in you. I thought you had potential.

 

But apparently I was wrong. May whatever god you believe in <snorts> have mercy on your soul.

 

Exactly this.

[redambrosia]

34 minutes ago, TGP said:

Question for July 20: Do you like coined names?

Yes. I kinda have to, since I make up so many names

[Crowley]

35 minutes ago, TGP said:

Question for July 20: Do you like coined names?

Some. Depends on how they sound. 

[Doug Sundseth]

39 minutes ago, TGP said:

Question for July 20: Do you like coined names?

 

No special problem in fiction (which would include RPGs), as long as a pronunciation can be reasonably inferred from the spelling and the word pronounced by real people.

 

For kids, I think it does them no favors to use coined names or spellings. They will continually have to explain how the word is pronounced and spelled throughout their lives. That seems a high price for someone else to pay so that you can bask in the glow of your "creativity".

[pinkymadigan]

53 minutes ago, TGP said:

Question for July 20: Do you like coined names?

Mostly, outside of most everything that Paizo comes up with. Pathfinder names are the worst.

Edited July 20, 2017 by pinkymadigan

[dwarvenranger]

Maybe

[Doug's Workshop]

I am reminded of a woman who was very upset that an acquaintance of mine called out her name . . ..

 

"La-a?"

"Is La-a here?"
That's not my name.

"I'm sorry, the name I have is spelled L A dash A."

(insulted voice) Right, the dash isn't silent.

 

 

Also, my wife works as a nurse in labor/delivery.  Sometimes women arrive who haven't decided on a name yet.  So during their stay, there is lots of medical talk going around between docs and nurses, and there have been cases of women choosing a name based on various medical terms they've heard.  "Chlamydia," for instance, has been attempted to be choses as a beautiful name for a girl.

 

I named my boys good Irish/Scot names, because the popular names today seem to be taken from a Holmesian D&D name generator.

[Zink]

In fiction they don't bother me but in real life I'm not so sure. I always wanted to name my kids something not so common but not wierd. Because I married a russian and at first didn't know if I'd go there or she'd come here we went with names that work in both countries so Alexander and Daniel. I feel sorry for kids that parents stuck with odd things. The two worst I've personally encountered were Hugh Magnus Dyke (pronounced Dick) and Ima Peg. At least poor Ima got married and is no longer a Peg. I also kind of felt sorry for some of the families, including earlier generations of mine, that stuck to a small traditional list. Every family in every generation had a John, George, Michael, Andrew, etc.