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Should the second part of the dictionary remain in this thread, or get it's own? Also, HA NO MORE ELVES TO VOTE FOR.

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Re: Dwarf Etymology - Axeford Dorfish Dictionary
« Reply #120 on: November 15, 2011, 11:38:31 pm »

The sun doesn't form light, it releases energy in the form of thermal radiation and light energy from nuclear fission...
WHO GIVES A DAMN.
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Re: Dwarf Etymology - Axeford Dorfish Dictionary
« Reply #121 on: November 16, 2011, 12:23:24 am »

Whip
N.
1. A long thin or flexible tool for striking. 2. In response to the Dwarven Atom Smasher, the Human Large Hadron Collider, and the Kobold XxSilk LoinclothxX replicator, the Goblins devised an equally ingenious, but much more EVIL tool of mass destruction to fit their needs. Capable of splitting atoms with all the weight focused into its end, it causes a sub nuclear reaction, crushing bones and severing limbs with the ease of dwarf devouring a plump helmet.
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Re: Dwarf Etymology - Axeford Dorfish Dictionary
« Reply #122 on: November 16, 2011, 02:32:58 pm »

The sun doesn't form light, it releases energy in the form of thermal radiation and light energy from nuclear fission...
WHO GIVES A DAMN.

You did say you might make a literal dictionary... Might as well make it literal :P

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Whip
N.
1. A long thin or flexible tool for striking. 2. In response to the Dwarven Atom Smasher, the Human Large Hadron Collider, and the Kobold XxSilk LoinclothxX replicator, the Goblins devised an equally ingenious, but much more EVIL tool of mass destruction to fit their needs. Capable of splitting atoms with all the weight focused into its end, it causes a sub nuclear reaction, crushing bones and severing limbs with the ease of dwarf devouring a plump helmet.

*Gives plump helmet cookie*
That was an Urist entry :D
*The good kind of Urist. You know which one I mean.
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Re: Dwarf Etymology - Axeford Dorfish Dictionary
« Reply #123 on: November 17, 2011, 01:04:52 pm »

Little addition to beards.
Beards allow dwarfs to telepathically communicate with each other.
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Re: Dwarf Etymology - Axeford Dorfish Dictionary
« Reply #124 on: November 17, 2011, 04:52:26 pm »

Little addition to beards.
Beards allow dwarfs to telepathically communicate with each other.

Added  ;)

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Re: Dwarf Etymology - Axeford Dorfish Dictionary
« Reply #125 on: November 17, 2011, 10:05:00 pm »

Little addition to beards.
Beards allow dwarfs to telepathically communicate with each other.

Y'know, I think that takes a level of intelligence a little bit higher than what they possess... like... some...
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Re: Dwarf Etymology - Axeford Dorfish Dictionary
« Reply #126 on: November 17, 2011, 10:49:29 pm »

Y-Yak.

Long haired bovines that eat a large amount of grass.  An amount so large that, in fact, it is not an uncommon sight to see yak skeletons scattered across a dwarf fortress.
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Re: Dwarf Etymology - Axeford Dorfish Dictionary
« Reply #127 on: November 17, 2011, 11:13:00 pm »

Y-Yak.

Long haired bovines that eat a large amount of grass.  An amount so large that, in fact, it is not an uncommon sight to see yak skeletons scattered across a dwarf fortress.
Don't forget their lethality towards civilians if in skeletal form.
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Re: Dwarf Etymology - Axeford Dorfish Dictionary
« Reply #128 on: November 18, 2011, 12:14:52 am »

The sun doesn't form light, it releases energy in the form of thermal radiation and light energy from nuclear fission... :D

Er, yes, and that means it's forming light. It's turning matter into light; it is forming light from matter.
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Re: Dwarf Etymology - Axeford Dorfish Dictionary
« Reply #129 on: November 18, 2011, 01:19:56 pm »

The sun doesn't form light, it releases energy in the form of thermal radiation and light energy from nuclear fission... :D

Er, yes, and that means it's forming light. It's turning matter into light; it is forming light from matter.

But form in the context it was used, implied that light energy was being formed, not transferred, which would break the first law of thermodynamics (I think:), in a literal dictionary:P)

Y-Yak.

Long haired bovines that eat a large amount of grass.  An amount so large that, in fact, it is not an uncommon sight to see yak skeletons scattered across a dwarf fortress.
Don't forget their lethality towards civilians if in skeletal form.

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaak

*Edit, just realised something - there's a 40000 character limit, which the OP has just reached >_<

I could abandon thread  :'(
Or spread out words amongst other posts :D
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Re: Dwarf Etymology - Axeford Dorfish Dictionary
« Reply #130 on: November 18, 2011, 01:45:10 pm »

Or lock this thread and start a new one.
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Re: Dwarf Etymology - Axeford Dorfish Dictionary
« Reply #131 on: November 18, 2011, 01:52:26 pm »

Or lock this thread and start a new one.

Interesting idea, might do it in the future, but the dictionary isn't too messy to quit just yet, might start a poll on it though ^_^

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« Reply #132 on: November 18, 2011, 02:03:50 pm »

But form in the context it was used, implied that light energy was being formed, not transferred, which would break the first law of thermodynamics (I think:), in a literal dictionary:P)

Only in the original formulation of the law. Modern physics embraces mass-energy equivalence. Or in other words... I'm thinking about this too hard, aren't I?
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Re: Dwarf Etymology - Axeford Dorfish Dictionary
« Reply #133 on: November 18, 2011, 02:50:05 pm »

Captain of the Guard
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1. The chief law enforcement officer in the mountainhome. 2. The most harmless, nicest dwarf in the fort armed with only a wooden shield and a candy mace, who enforces the law with gentle tappings and kind suggestions. When not eating plump helmet donuts or sleeping, he's often attending a party with loving friends. 3. A horrific, blood soaked figure clad in gore-covered mail and armed with a rusty steel axe and his Armok-given fists. He wanders the halls, cutting down any and all who break even the lightest infraction, never stopping, giving no mercy and no quarter. All in the fort trembles at his footsteps.
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Re: Dwarf Etymology - Axeford Dorfish Dictionary
« Reply #134 on: November 18, 2011, 03:00:26 pm »

But form in the context it was used, implied that light energy was being formed, not transferred, which would break the first law of thermodynamics (I think:), in a literal dictionary:P)

Only in the original formulation of the law. Modern physics embraces mass-energy equivalence. Or in other words... I'm thinking about this too hard, aren't I?

I'm not talking about mass energy equivalence, I'm talking about creating energy out of nothing:P
[Yes this is already in my dictionary, just saying it doesn't belong in a literal dictionary;]

And you probably are taking thinking about this too much :D
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