Reputations

[Oddwen]

Hmm...got to wondering last night...if one year of being Dead = one rep point, do those who joined in "1969" have 34 points just for that? Or...not?

[wilwarin538]

Well Lal is now back on Taniquetil.

[Bêthberry]

Originally Posted by Eomer of the Warghirrim

You'd make a good politician Bb.

Alas, alas, Eomer, what party would I join? Once upon a time there was a Rhinoceros Party in Canada ... but only in Canada. Would you be thinking of starting up a Wargian Party?

Originally Posted by The Squatter of Amon Rûdh

If you're not careful you'll be back to 'getting the hang of it' before too long.

Serves you right for talking posh. Rather than risk an accusation of euphuism through a potentially equivocal use of the indirect question, it would have been more felicitous to employ the more lucid prosody that is a sine qua non of electronic discourse. After all, there are some people who wouldn't even understand the foregoing sentence, which exemplifies limpidity.

Always the grammarian, eh Squatter? Actually, I wouldn't be too surprised if I do start 'slipping'. I've actually for some time now been expecting something like that to happen as in my experience the reps I receive have at times been somewhat random.

Originally Posted by HI

Let's try and translate, though:

Quote:
Instead of talking posh and being accused of pomposity, cause the question there may have been misunderstood since it sounded like having more than one hidden meaning, it would have been more appropriate to use plainer sentence construction, which is one of the requirements when talking over the net. There are some which won't get this one either, though it is a good sample of what clear talking is


There, I hope it is more or less corresponding

You're a braver man than I am, Heren-Din, taking Squatter's words and putting their facsimile in his mouth.

[Gurthang]

I would just like to take this oppurtunity to thank all of you who gave me reps for the WWIIX game. I didn't quite expect that many... for losing! Imagine if I had won...

I also want to point out that there are 31 downers who have now acheived the once coveted eleven boxes! I am very new to the number.

It was a secret goal of mine to achieve eleven before the first page in the Members list was full of such highly reputed members. Alas, The Squatter came up and passed me just prior to me turning to the Straight Road. Congrats to you Squatter, you stole my goal, as mundane and pointless as it was.

[Glirdan]

I would like to at this time thank all those who repped me for my "Crazy Captions" posts. I was really, REALLY surprised at that. But all the same, thanks. And thank you to those people who got me to being "As Faithful As Samwise"! Thank you a lot.

[the guy who be short]

Well Lal is now back on Taniquetil.

Hmmm. The implication here is that she (and the others) had to come off Taniquetil to perform all the other tasks in their rep levels. So we can presume there were no petty-dwarves on Taniquetil - unless perhaps they just don't stalk people up there.

Originally Posted by Squatter

Serves you right for talking posh. Rather than risk an accusation of euphuism through a potentially equivocal use of the indirect question, it would have been more felicitous to employ the more lucid prosody that is a sine qua non of electronic discourse. After all, there are some people who wouldn't even understand the foregoing sentence, which exemplifies limpidity.

Bold words are words that I didn't know the meaning of prior to Heren's interpretation. Thanks to both Squatter for extending my vocabulary, and H-I for allowing me to do so with minimal effort on my part.

[wilwarin538]

My Eru! Saucie is now above davem in the rep list.