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Shazzbot
Mortal
(12/9/03 11:35 am)
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A very stupid question.
Call me stupid but how exactly do you pronounce Verbobonc? Ver-bob-onk sounds kinda stupid to me.
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 Infiniti2000
Cherub
(12/9/03 11:41 am)
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Re: A very stupid question.
Not a stupid question at all. Check out this thread on Page 21. There's a Greyhawk reference in there, too.
Anyway, as for sounding stupid, a lot of Gygaxian names were like that. In particular, I point to "Fragarach".
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arcane12
Memunite
(12/9/03 12:34 pm)
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Re: A very stupid question.
I remember a discussion (different one to the one pointed to above) not too long ago on that issue (and also discussed pronouncing Fragarach, then degrading into calling it fraggle rock! :P ) but after 30 mins of search could not find it... I think it was a part of another discussion...sorry, but maybe Infiniti2000 may remember it...
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smetzger
Memunite
(12/9/03 12:55 pm)
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Re: A very stupid question.
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...a lot of Gygaxian names were like that...
The funny thing is that Gygax just released a gaming supplement that is just a bunch of names for use in your game.
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Caedrel
Kalkydrite
(12/9/03 8:20 pm)
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Re: A very stupid question.
Gygax invented names the same way most of us invent them, I guess - it's just his adventures made it into print and became part of the Greyhawk canon 
I recall seeing somewhere that he just used the first few letters of his children's names for the city in the Vault of the Drow - ERniE Luke HEIdi CINdy LoUie, Erelhei-Cinlu - and thus, "Erelhei" is now drow for "city"
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