Star Citizen Discussions v7
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They did, but they also apparently wanted to stay away from the very straight-forward adverb “dum” to say “until”. So they looked up some other translations until they stumbled upon quoad, which seemed very… Latin. And it is. But mainly in the sense that it is heavily modified by whatever cases, tenses, and moods you attach to it. For “quoad” to mean “until” like they want it to do, it has to go with the subjunctive rather than the indicative that they picked.
Instead, it takes on the meaning “while” or “as long as”, for a final meaning more akin to “faithful while we are deserting” or “faithful as long as we die” or any other variation of “yeah, we'll give it a go until we inevitably don't any more for some reason” that the combination of quoad + [indicative] decedo suggests.
Maybe they should have used the stretch-goal money they collected to hire a linguist to… you know… actually hire a linguist who'd be able to look it up and understand the terms, rather than just some rando who decided that Chinese pidgin was pretty alien'n'stuff.
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Maybe they should have used the stretch-goal money they collected to hire a linguist to… you know… actually hire a linguist who'd be able to look it up and understand the terms, rather than just some rando who decided that Chinese pidgin was pretty alien'n'stuff.
It's like they just can't get anything right..
Nah. You always want Cleese for that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIAdHEwiAy8
There's a reason why anyone who's actually suffered from the language will suffer shortness of breath from laughter when watching that scene.
Virtual rep - how did I not think of that!..
I know what that is without clicking.
Edit: Curse you, autoplay. That'll be the next hour wasted.
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I know what that is without clicking.
Edit: Curse you, autoplay. That'll be the next hour wasted.
Cives eunt domus?
People called Cives, they go the house?
now trying work out what "buy an Idris" would be in latin...
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I imagine the average whale opens the e-mail and instantly hears 50 Cent playing in their head. Rollin wit tha Gs. Etc.
To be fair hadn't CR, erm, diversified into real estate/used car sales/something else of equally ill-repute before pitching Star Citizen?
[hehe]
Used-car leasing and race-horse farming. Ehm. Breeding… or something.
Oh, and while nothing was ever properly established, the long line of companies on the theme of “ascendant/rising [something movie related]” makes for a curious lead towards the Rising Star company that I highly suggest that no-one googles.
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With a side order of things that were getting sued in Germany and other things getting sued by Nicholas Cage.
Much fun!
Dunno, but I'm assuming the plural would be 3rd declension "Idrēs"?
Continuing the unfair criticism of CIG, does this new concept ship reminds anyone of anything: https://i.imgur.com/ZTVqQi1.jpg?
