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Author Topic: weird river name - Stpdjw th scrching fr  (Read 4183 times)

tommy521

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Re: weird river name - Stpdjw th scrching fr
« Reply #15 on: May 23, 2012, 09:19:23 am »

It appears to be abbreviating the name - although I have no idea what would cause that.

Also, this might not be correct, because why would a river be named "Stupidjaw the Scorching Fire"?

Maybe it's not StupidJAW.

Perhaps it's an anti-Semitic river. ;)
A river of fire that hate jews makes more sense, actually.

I was hoping that me taking a class on WWII would be an excuse for thinking that, but I see some people think of it normally...

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Re: weird river name - Stpdjw th scrching fr
« Reply #16 on: May 23, 2012, 07:45:41 pm »

This is a good feature, like captchas that insult or amuse you. A cookie to anyone that manages to get anything abreviated to something funny, sick, dirty or including the word boobs.
Given that vowels seem to be discarded in the abbreviated sentences, it would be unlikely that anyone gets "boobs" at all.
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Re: weird river name - Stpdjw th scrching fr
« Reply #17 on: May 23, 2012, 07:47:47 pm »

It appears to be abbreviating the name - although I have no idea what would cause that.

Also, this might not be correct, because why would a river be named "Stupidjaw the Scorching Fire"?

Maybe it's not StupidJAW.

Perhaps it's an anti-Semitic river. ;)
A river of fire that hate jews makes more sense, actually.

I was hoping that me taking a class on WWII would be an excuse for thinking that, but I see some people think of it normally...

I think their hell is a lake of fire, but close enough.
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Listen up: making a thing a ‼thing‼ doesn't make it more awesome or extreme.  It simply indicates the thing is on fire.  Get it right or look like a silly poser.

It's useful to keep a ‼torch‼ handy.

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Re: weird river name - Stpdjw th scrching fr
« Reply #18 on: May 23, 2012, 09:18:22 pm »

This kind of name shortening has been around since before I started playing (0.31.08).  Try pressing F11 to see it in TTF mode to see if it displays the entire thing.  TTF uses about half the space, typically, so the entire name tends to show up that way (but has, or had, a display bug so its annoying sometimes).
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