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POTUSA Grogs- Grand Unified Theory. Now with more context.

Started by Teazia, March 27, 2012, 02:56:56 AM

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Dog Quixote

#15
March 29, 2012, 04:32:14 AM
Quote from: Settembrini;524180It is unfathomable to me how Grognard can be abbreviated "Grog".
It should be impossible for nearly everyone speaking an indo-germanic idiom.

There is not even a sound for that kind of isolated "g" in most languages! What is it called, a glottal stop? But without vowels to fo''ow? No you 'i'nd't! fu'' ''u?! Or with plural s to follow???

Ta'es ba''s!

Maybe hungarians, aztecs or bushmen can do that, you do not speak any exotic languages, do you?
Oh well, there's goes any hope of getting people to play Ars Magica.

Unless of course I move to Budapest!

Settembrini

#16
March 29, 2012, 09:34:42 AM
Quote from: Dodger;524614What the fhtagn are you talking about? "Grog" is pronounced exactly the same as "grognards", just without the "nards".

Ahem.

So, what Ben and Melan said made sense. Grog I can grok (as well as drink). And never intended to pretend otherwise.

But your sentence, cited fully in this here post of mine, is illogical. The sound  at the end of the "grog-" part of the word "grognards" without the "-nards" part is alien to most languages.

Could Dodger be meaningfully abbreviated with Dod? Is the sportsteam colloquially known as "the Dods"? "Did you see the latest Dods game?"
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Aos

#17
March 29, 2012, 11:57:10 AM
Pedantic much? Oh wait, forget I asked.
Carry on.
You are posting in a troll thread.

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Dodger

#18
March 29, 2012, 12:45:07 PM
Quote from: Settembrini;524638But your sentence, cited fully in this here post of mine, is illogical. The sound  at the end of the "grog-" part of the word "grognards" without the "-nards" part is alien to most languages.
Except English. Dog. Fog. Log. Bog.
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Benoist

#19
March 29, 2012, 12:55:26 PM
Actually, take it from a Frenchman, but the sounds from "groGNard" and "groG" are not the same. "GN" is a sound of its own, in French. It's not said "grog-né" it's said "gro-nié". Grognard in French is pronounced "groniar", NOT "grog-nar". Like "oignon" in French which you basically pronounce "onion" with "on" being as well a sound of its own.

One Horse Town

#20
March 29, 2012, 01:13:02 PM
Quote from: The Butcher;524178Whisky Tango Foxtrot.

:hatsoff:

Dodger

#21
March 29, 2012, 06:10:16 PM
Quote from: Benoist;524664Actually, take it from a Frenchman, but the sounds from "groGNard" and "groG" are not the same. "GN" is a sound of its own, in French.
Yeah but we're not speaking French. We're speaking gamerese, in which grognard is pronounced (ironically, mind you) with two hard Gs. ;-)
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#22
March 29, 2012, 07:22:12 PM Last Edit: March 29, 2012, 07:25:08 PM by Settembrini
Which is patently wrong, my dear Dodd-gher!*

'cause ye very here old term of grognard is taken from....Napoleon's army! Whodathunk?!

And by whom? Oi veh! Those educated wargamers! Them basterdz.

So anybody who mocks a grognard abbreviating "grog" shows he has NEVER been in a conversation with anyone who has the bona fides to be either called or mocked to be one.

He shows he is just regurgigating (sp?) something he picked up on the internets a year ago.

I piss on such pop-hate.

*you do not speak english, but bullshit-ese!
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Settembrini

#23
March 29, 2012, 07:31:04 PM
Just to be crystal clear:

Hating something because others tell you so is the second worst thing a human being can do.
If there can\'t be a TPK against the will of the players it\'s not an RPG.- Pierce Inverarity

One Horse Town

#24
March 29, 2012, 07:42:00 PM
Quote from: Settembrini;524730Just to be crystal clear:

Hating something because others tell you so is the second worst thing a human being can do.

The worst is starting this thread, i presume?

Just wondering.

Settembrini

#25
March 30, 2012, 01:50:03 AM
Let's say acting on hate in general.
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Teazia

#26
March 30, 2012, 02:10:37 AM
Who be hating?  I am celebrating.  If you are a Carter Grog, wear it like a badge of honor, likewise a Reagan II grog.  For example, I am a Clinton I Grog,and damn  proud.

As to our (mis)use of the word, blame it all on Grognardia!  He learned me the word in 2008!
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Marleycat

#27
March 30, 2012, 04:57:03 AM Last Edit: March 30, 2012, 04:59:13 AM by Marleycat
I'm sure this has been said already but grog is just a cheap horrid alcohol drink made famous by seafarers, legal or not. Got no idea what "nard" brings to the meaning of the word beyond the obvious, sorry. :D
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