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Re: I just had a moment of fridge logic
« Reply #15 on: March 14, 2010, 11:04:32 am »
Quote from: Sean Mirrsen on March 14, 2010, 10:52:24 am
"Wrex" isn't a profession. Neither is "Williams", "Alenko", or "Rayya".
Never heard of 'Wrex' but 'Williams' I've heard comes from 'Williamson' a common alternative to profession-naming was naming after the father. Hence surnames like 'Johnson' and 'Jackson'. And this is all, of course, following a fairly European naming tradition. But again, it is most common for names to be 'son of' or '*job title*', just in the native language.
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Re: I just had a moment of fridge logic
« Reply #16 on: March 14, 2010, 11:15:40 am »
Quote from: buckets on March 14, 2010, 10:40:16 am
Quote from: Kitpup on March 14, 2010, 04:01:39 am
Quote from: Protactinium on March 13, 2010, 11:29:36 pm
Also, surnames have often been of professions if not of place of origin.

See:

Joe Carpenter
Joe Smith
Joe... uh... Patel? (Farmer)

Carter, Tanner, Fisher, Shepard...

Wrex.

Don't worry, I saw what you did there
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Re: I just had a moment of fridge logic
« Reply #17 on: March 14, 2010, 11:25:09 am »
Wrex doesn't need to be a profession, because he IS the profession.
That bitchy female killed Wrex..I didn't get to see him in the next game either :'(
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Re: I just had a moment of fridge logic
« Reply #18 on: March 14, 2010, 11:53:01 am »
Because you use dwarves to stab people.
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Re: I just had a moment of fridge logic
« Reply #19 on: March 14, 2010, 01:09:47 pm »
Quote from: Kitpup on March 14, 2010, 04:01:39 am
Quote from: Protactinium on March 13, 2010, 11:29:36 pm
Also, surnames have often been of professions if not of place of origin.

See:

Joe Carpenter
Joe Smith
Joe... uh... Patel? (Farmer)

Carter, Tanner, Fisher, Shepard...

. . .Cooper, Trader, Sterling, Baker. . .
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Re: I just had a moment of fridge logic
« Reply #20 on: March 14, 2010, 01:34:48 pm »
Quote from: RavingManiac on March 14, 2010, 11:53:01 am
Because you use dwarves to stab people.

Genius my good sir fish thingy that sorta creeps me out.
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Re: I just had a moment of fridge logic
« Reply #21 on: March 14, 2010, 01:46:35 pm »
Quote from: Kitpup on March 14, 2010, 11:04:32 am
Quote from: Sean Mirrsen on March 14, 2010, 10:52:24 am
"Wrex" isn't a profession. Neither is "Williams", "Alenko", or "Rayya".
Never heard of 'Wrex' but 'Williams' I've heard comes from 'Williamson' a common alternative to profession-naming was naming after the father. Hence surnames like 'Johnson' and 'Jackson'. And this is all, of course, following a fairly European naming tradition. But again, it is most common for names to be 'son of' or '*job title*', just in the native language.

In many Eastern naming traditions, it's largely the same surname format. Profession, Town That Family Has Lived In For A Long Time, Son of Father's Name, Name From Religious Scripture or Stories or National Heroes, etcetera.
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Quote from: hughesdylan on December 02, 2009, 02:23:27 pm
The thing that confuses me about dorfs is this. Dorf 1 dies in an avalance or somesuch. Dorf 2 is friends with dorf 3 and dorf 1. Dorf 2 berserks because of his friends death and kills dorf 3. also a friend. W. T. F.
Clearly you've never been drunk.

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Re: I just had a moment of fridge logic
« Reply #22 on: March 14, 2010, 01:51:05 pm »
Wrex=king?
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Re: I just had a moment of fridge logic
« Reply #23 on: March 14, 2010, 03:04:26 pm »
*sigh*

can we drop the whole shepherd-wrex thing. It's confusing too many people.
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Re: I just had a moment of fridge logic
« Reply #24 on: March 14, 2010, 03:25:42 pm »
Quote from: Dabi on March 14, 2010, 11:25:09 am
Wrex doesn't need to be a profession, because he IS the profession.
That bitchy female killed Wrex..I didn't get to see him in the next game either :'(

Yeah, I never forgave her for that, which is why i screwed her then dumped her for Miranda...
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Re: I just had a moment of fridge logic
« Reply #25 on: March 14, 2010, 11:50:58 pm »
Quote from: Rowanas on March 14, 2010, 03:04:26 pm
shepherd

Another profession-based last name, but with various spellings I believe.
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Quote from: Stargrasper on December 02, 2009, 03:49:52 pm
Quote from: hughesdylan on December 02, 2009, 02:23:27 pm
The thing that confuses me about dorfs is this. Dorf 1 dies in an avalance or somesuch. Dorf 2 is friends with dorf 3 and dorf 1. Dorf 2 berserks because of his friends death and kills dorf 3. also a friend. W. T. F.
Clearly you've never been drunk.

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Re: I just had a moment of fridge logic
« Reply #26 on: March 15, 2010, 12:14:42 am »
Quote from: Danaru on March 14, 2010, 11:15:40 am
Quote from: buckets on March 14, 2010, 10:40:16 am
Quote from: Kitpup on March 14, 2010, 04:01:39 am
Quote from: Protactinium on March 13, 2010, 11:29:36 pm
Also, surnames have often been of professions if not of place of origin.

See:

Joe Carpenter
Joe Smith
Joe... uh... Patel? (Farmer)

Carter, Tanner, Fisher, Shepard...

Wrex.

Don't worry, I saw what you did there

Phew, I thought maybe everyone would have picked up on it.

Maybe I just play Mass Effect too much?
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Re: I just had a moment of fridge logic
« Reply #27 on: March 15, 2010, 12:23:19 am »
Quote from: buckets on March 15, 2010, 12:14:42 am
Quote from: Danaru on March 14, 2010, 11:15:40 am
Quote from: buckets on March 14, 2010, 10:40:16 am
Quote from: Kitpup on March 14, 2010, 04:01:39 am
Quote from: Protactinium on March 13, 2010, 11:29:36 pm
Also, surnames have often been of professions if not of place of origin.

See:

Joe Carpenter
Joe Smith
Joe... uh... Patel? (Farmer)

Carter, Tanner, Fisher, Shepard...

Wrex.

Don't worry, I saw what you did there

Phew, I thought maybe everyone would have picked up on it.

Maybe I just play Mass Effect too much?

And with my head out of a Dwarf's butt, NOW I get it.
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Quote from: Diablous on March 06, 2010, 08:55:26 pm
Yes they are a bunch of drunken unstable retards, but they're MY drunken unstable retards, and I will take care of them.

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Re: I just had a moment of fridge logic
« Reply #28 on: March 15, 2010, 12:31:20 am »
Is that Wrex as in he wrecks things, or Wrex as in Rex, the latin word for "king"?
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Re: I just had a moment of fridge logic
« Reply #29 on: March 15, 2010, 12:49:58 am »
McProfession is seen in this early etching:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFHlJ2voJHY
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