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littlemanpoet · 12-01-2005, 10:54 AM

1. Only Orcs will ever be found behind the wheel in Mordor; make sure your posts account for this.

2. Orcs have not changed since the days of the Dark Lord, except in one regard alone: their dark hearts crave respect, and so they have given mighty efforts to accomplishing a thin veneer of civilization. Therefore, they have turned into perfect bureaucrats: overly officious, tending to use "overly" correct English, which means a latinate word where a good Anglo-Saxon one will do. If you're not sure what that means, any word that ends in "tion" is latinate. Any word beginning with "con", "pro", or any of those three letter prefixes, is likely to be latinate. The one exception to the overly correct usage is when they're behind the wheel, and they revert to the most beastly talk.

I think that about covers it.

So I need to go back and edit the talk of Lûgnût too.

12-01-2005, 10:54 AM	#110
littlemanpoet Itinerant Songster Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: The Edge of Faerie Posts: 7,066	Redirects concerning Orcs 1. Only Orcs will ever be found behind the wheel in Mordor; make sure your posts account for this. 2. Orcs have not changed since the days of the Dark Lord, except in one regard alone: their dark hearts crave respect, and so they have given mighty efforts to accomplishing a thin veneer of civilization. Therefore, they have turned into perfect bureaucrats: overly officious, tending to use "overly" correct English, which means a latinate word where a good Anglo-Saxon one will do. If you're not sure what that means, any word that ends in "tion" is latinate. Any word beginning with "con", "pro", or any of those three letter prefixes, is likely to be latinate. The one exception to the overly correct usage is when they're behind the wheel, and they revert to the most beastly talk. I think that about covers it. So I need to go back and edit the talk of Lûgnût too.