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Rhewtani
Senior Scribe
USA
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 Posted - 10 Mar 2009 : 20:18:55
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So, I finally caught on while running Ruins of Adventure.
All the names ... are spanish. Is there an FR Anthropological reason for this?
Sure, they did horrible attrocities when naming NPCs (half-orcs are named after weapons, gnomes after words for earth, half-elves after gems, etc), but I figured they wouldn't go so nuts with the rest of the city's names.
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Nerfed2Hell
Senior Scribe
USA
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Posted - 10 Mar 2009 : 21:01:00
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Huh. I totally missed that.
I'm going back to high school and complaining that my two years of Spanish were a waste. |
Some people are like a slinky... not good for much, but when you push them down the stairs, it makes you smile. |
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Rhewtani
Senior Scribe
USA
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Posted - 10 Mar 2009 : 23:02:04
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| Yeah, it just doesnt seem like Ferran Martinez is a really good Realmsian name. |
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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
USA
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Posted - 11 Mar 2009 : 15:53:49
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Maybe I should of had the main personage in my one CKC article - Richard Montoya - be from Phlan. 
I wonder if Alaundo would let me go back and edit some of the names in that piece?  |
"I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me" --- Dudley Field Malone
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Jakk
Great Reader
Canada
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Posted - 13 Mar 2009 : 21:57:53
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You're missing something there, Rhewtani: "Phlanish" rhymes with "Spanish"... there's your justification, 4E style.  |
Playing in the Realms since the Old Grey Box (1987)... and *still* having fun with material published before 2008, despite the NDA'd lore.
If it's comparable in power with non-magical abilities, it's not magic. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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Posted - 13 Mar 2009 : 22:07:49
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quote:
Originally posted by Jakk
You're missing something there, Rhewtani: "Phlanish" rhymes with "Spanish"... there's your justification, 4E style.
I've always pronounced it Flon, not Flan.  |
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Nerfed2Hell
Senior Scribe
USA
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Posted - 14 Mar 2009 : 18:45:45
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| I never considered pronouncing it anything other than Flan. |
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Naming System in Phlan
