Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[numerobis]

The easiest way to avoid cave adaptation is to build a statue garden outside (in an area inaccessible except via your main entrance).  Or, just never leave.

I've never heard of a cure.

[vagel7]

my dwarves puked for about 2 seasons and then stopped(i m building a huge wall every dwarf exept miners have to build it)

[duro]

"boni"? is that a slang term for "benefits", in some romance language? (spanish, italian, french?) or am i way off?

It's the original latin plural of 'bonus' (at least without writing that stupid elongation mark above the i). This not only provides nefarious ambiguity but also tells the reader to oh my god kiss my feet because I'm using unspeakable xenonyms to prove my unquestionable superiority.

[Mohreb el Yasim]

"boni"? is that a slang term for "benefits", in some romance language? (spanish, italian, french?) or am i way off?

It's the original latin plural of 'bonus' (at least without writing that stupid elongation mark above the i). This not only provides nefarious ambiguity but also tells the reader to oh my god kiss my feet because I'm using unspeakable xenonyms to prove my unquestionable superiority.

english is quite a xenonym based language;) end indead itself is real "xeno" for most of the forum readers  ... so don't see why we wouldn't use the real historycal inter-language(latin) some times ...

[unknwnsoljer]

english is quite a xenonym based language;) end indead itself is real "xeno" for most of the forum readers  ... so don't see why we wouldn't use the real historycal inter-language(latin) some times ...

Because even less of us know latin (than those who know english).

[Mohreb el Yasim]

english is quite a xenonym based language;) end indead itself is real "xeno" for most of the forum readers  ... so don't see why we wouldn't use the real historycal inter-language(latin) some times ...

Because even less of us know latin (than those who know english).

sad sad ... however i now it is out of topic but wich language you mostly learn in th USA?

[hexrei]

"boni"? is that a slang term for "benefits", in some romance language? (spanish, italian, french?) or am i way off?

It's the original latin plural of 'bonus' (at least without writing that stupid elongation mark above the i). This not only provides nefarious ambiguity but also tells the reader to oh my god kiss my feet because I'm using unspeakable xenonyms to prove my unquestionable superiority.

geez, i shoulda figured that out on my own, i was tipped off to the romance root from "duro" which i know has a latin root in "hard".
'
hooray for dead languages, i can say the whole pledge of allegiance (american) in latin!

[illiterate]

english is quite a xenonym based language;) end indead itself is real "xeno" for most of the forum readers  ... so don't see why we wouldn't use the real historycal inter-language(latin) some times ...

Because even less of us know latin (than those who know english).

sad sad ... however i now it is out of topic but wich language you mostly learn in th USA?

Those who are from here tend not to really learn other languages.  We recite things in French or Spanish (usually) when we're in secondary school, but then we forget it all when we're done. 

Immigrant populations are pressured to learn english.  We're very jingoistic, I'm afraid.   

[Mohreb el Yasim]

english is quite a xenonym based language;) end indead itself is real "xeno" for most of the forum readers  ... so don't see why we wouldn't use the real historycal inter-language(latin) some times ...

Because even less of us know latin (than those who know english).

sad sad ... however i now it is out of topic but wich language you mostly learn in th USA?

Those who are from here tend not to really learn other languages.  We recite things in French or Spanish (usually) when we're in secondary school, but then we forget it all when we're done. 

Immigrant populations are pressured to learn english.  We're very jingoistic, I'm afraid.   

bad for you speaking languages makes you be able to think in different ways and it is cool i found ...

[betamax]

Those who are from here tend not to really learn other languages.  We recite things in French or Spanish (usually) when we're in secondary school, but then we forget it all when we're done. 

Immigrant populations are pressured to learn english.  We're very jingoistic, I'm afraid.   

When I went on holiday to New York, I found the number of signs in Spanish laughable. Mohreb el Yasim is right though, knowing other languages really opens your mind.

On the topic of cave adaptation, there's a really interesting thread on /tg/ right now.

[Christes]

Err, doesn't bonus simply mean "good" in Latin?  It is an adjective, and as such, it has no Latin plural (unless you count declensions to agree with plural nouns, but that's not the idea here).

Moreover, just having a word ending in -us, does not automatically make -i the proper plural, even if it comes from Latin.

[Silfir]

"Bonus" is an o-declination (declension or whatever) adjective, and as such, the plural of "bonus" is "boni" (why the hell would an adjective not have a plural form?). Now, you could argue that "bonus" is the wrong gender, and it should be "bonum" or something, which would make the plural "bona". Nevertheless, "boni" is the plural form of "bonus", and thus perfectly fine to use. Instead of complaining that it doesn't adhere to common usage of English you could also say "Well, you learn something every day" and be done with it...

[betamax]

Instead of complaining that it doesn't adhere to common usage of English you could also say "Well, you learn something every day" and be done with it...

But we're on the internet!

[John Johnston]

"All we know is that there's still no contact with Urist since his party broke through the glowing wall, and that a xenonym may be involved."

[Viprince]

If you really can't stand the green stuff and have your main activity taking place 1 or 2 z levels to the surface you can mine it all out and refloor. Once they're exposed they should count as open air and the silly dwarves won't see a difference. Just gotta watch out to keep some soil wherever you have your farm. If you wanna build on top of the floor well ye d have to sacrifice a z -level full of walls to create a buildable surface on the ground level.

As far as i know though puking is just another part of the daily dwarven cycle, I have dwarves go to bed go to work and come back to bed leaving a fellow dwarf with a cut off leg starving and dehydarting in the corner of their rooms i don't think they'll care for puke near the exit staircase