Thargoids: The Correct Grammatical Shortening
- Thread starter Whiterose
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In 1984 they used to spawn fighters known as 'Thargons' which you could scoop and sell as alien artifacts.
Petal heads and nothing more!
CMIV
CMIV
It's always been the Attack of the Goids!
"Targets"
This is a tricky one. The -oid end of a word means 'resembling' or 'like', and implies there was such a thing as a Tharg. Apocopation to Tharg would technical risk causing an ambiguity. Apheresis to Goid may appeal more because it drops the unstressed syllable in the common pronunciation tharGOID.
Personal, i prefer to emphasise the first syllable THARGoid, so I'll avoid any shortening, on the off chance the Thargs make an appearance.
Won't be long before we're all calling them Klaxians anyway. (oh yes they are).
Personal, i prefer to emphasise the first syllable THARGoid, so I'll avoid any shortening, on the off chance the Thargs make an appearance.
Won't be long before we're all calling them Klaxians anyway. (oh yes they are).
Is 'Tards still an option?
Perhaps somebody who hails from the Mersey area of Britain would be able to clarify whether this has already been adopted for another purpose?
Perhaps somebody who hails from the Mersey area of Britain would be able to clarify whether this has already been adopted for another purpose?
This being the 34th century, and the fact that nothing ever shot at them does anything, I suggest we call them what they want us to call them.
I suspect initially, anyone who encounters them will end up calling them "AAAAARGH!"
Premonition spoiler:
If we believe Society, they are Oresrians on the run from Klaxians.