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Word games for the bored or intellectual; Word origination
Topic Started: Sep 25 2008, 02:23 PM (804 Views)
zeph
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A site? For pronounciation? I dunno any sites for that kind of thing, but im guessing someone would have made a site called www.pronounciation.com or something o.o
As for your words: deception comes from adding the suffix -ion, making the word an adjective, to deceive and changing the iv to a pt a adjectives usually do. Deceive comes from french which took it from latin, and i have absolutely no idea how to spell nor pronounce the original word in latin.

Misery: (you depressed? :() misery comes from miser, meaning a money hoarder. Misers were stereotypically anti-social, rude, and self centered people who don't enjoy life, and thus the word misery, describing these people, became synonymous with depressed or anti-social people.

Oblivion: oblivion comes from the prefix oblivi, meaning nothing. Oblivion is the name for nothing, oblivious is the act of suspecting or hearing nothing, obliviate is the act of leaving nothing, etc. oblivi by itself is not a word, but a prefix.

electricution: electricution comes from electricute, which comes from electricity, which comes from electra, a woman from greek mythology who conspired with odeseus to kill in revenge for the murder of agamemnon (or however its spelt). Bit of a stretch, i doubt this ones even close XD

Zeph: zeph comes from zephyr, the greek west wind. In greek its zephuros.
Which sounds a bit like sephiroth o.O
E'n yea enemae uldomae zaphinyea, zephuros! dunna dunnaaaaaa!
zephuros!
Dunna Dunnaaaaaaa!
:D
*zeph comes falling from the celeiling, stabs someone in the back with a longass sword, and gives you a lecture on shakespearean pronounciation.
Dubble bubble boil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble?
Fillit of a pennysnake, in the cauldron boil and bake, eye of newt and toe of frog, wool of bat, and tounge, of dog...
Andsoforth!
Edited by zeph, Oct 10 2008, 08:18 AM.
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Sephiroth
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Dusterk

Bsw_hunter

Darvarda93

Notaleaver

Lorddread

DarknessPrince

Rompadomp

WNxSpoons

Sheepcoats

Zerious

and any other clan member u can think of
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zeph
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Ugh.
Dusterk is a portmanteau of dust and the expression erk, an onomatopoeia one uses when one finds something repulsive or rejectful.
Bsw_hunter is seperated by an underscore and is therefore a phrase rather than a word.
Darvarda93 is a portmanteau of darth, a fictional rank in the starwars series, and varda which is a slurring of vader, followed by the ninety-third basic consecutive numerical quantity. (however, he denies all correlation to said source, but these arent real after all :))
Notaleaver is a portmanteau of the three words, not, meaning the opposite of the following, a, suggesting a single quantity of the following, and leaver, meaning in this case someone who ends their involvement in a game. (obvious)
Lord-Dread is a portmanteau of lord, a rank in the english feudal system, presiding over an earl but below a Duke, and dread, a feeling of terror or evil.
DarknessPrince is, once AGAIN, a portmanteau of darkness, a noun meaning lack of light in the observable vicinity, and prince, a rank in many european cultures meaning the son of a ruler.
Rompadomp is not in our clan :O
WNxSpoons is an abbriviation of the aforementioned users clan following a seperative device, x, following spoons, a noun describing an eating instrument used for liquideous foods.
Sheepcoats is once again a portmanteau of sheep, an animal from which wool is regularly shorn, and coats, articles of clothing often made from the aforementioned material.
Zerous is a combination of Ze, a Cryllic letter, and rous, the man who discovered viruses that cause tumors.

Names are surprisingly simple, although i did have to lookup the meaning of rous.
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Why aren't they in DoW2?
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Correction, I completely made up Darvarda93 for an Italian video game. I managed to brainstorm something incredibly remote from my real name. I didn't mean it to represent anything even close to Darth Vader :S
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Muhahaha. I already disclaimed it before you corrected it, so your correction is merely a clarification and observation!
I say again, muhaha.
If you remove the vowels from david it spells dvd.
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lol, dvd, i have a friend at school named david
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Too damn old for this shit
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Give you a hint about me name.
Bsw means blacksheepwall. . .
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Why aren't they in DoW2?
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Blacksheepwall is a cheat on Starcraft XD

I should know...he told me :P
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Oh, well darv got it lol.
Wouldn't have gotten that, cant remember any starcraft cheats.
So instead, heres a few:
Wednesday comes from wodin's day, the chief norse god.
Friday comes from Frey or Freyja, another norse god.
Thursday comes from Thor, yet another norse god.
Tuesday comes from Tyr, another norse god.
Sunday comes from the Sun's day, and Monday from the Moon's day.

A cookie for whoever can guess the origin of saturday :D
Edited by zeph, Oct 13 2008, 11:36 AM.
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saturn? the planet/god
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