Fair enough.Originally Posted by Hotrod
Fair enough.
"We also tried switching back, but they say we're using too many resources. Fuck them."
Hotrod that doesn't make any goddamn sense. Didact is derived from Didactic which is latin. Why would a Latin title have a German prefix, that's just stupid.
Halo 4 Plotline:
What did the Master Chief say to Didact after the Didact insulted him? Ur-Didact.
"We also tried switching back, but they say we're using too many resources. Fuck them."
Don't ask me, it's just what I read in some interview about the book. Don't ask for the source, I don't have it nor am I looking for it.
Proof that I'm not an idiot: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ur-
In plus, Great Bear stated that there are two Didacts that are alive in Silencium, meaning that the original must not have been executed by Faber, the Master Builder, as was previously thought.
Last edited by Hotrod; July 17th, 2012 at 07:34 PM.
What do you call a lasgun with a laser sight on it? Twin linked :3
I'm not calling you an idiot, I'm calling Greg Bear an idiot for not understanding or following the paradigms and patterns of established languages. The vacuous manatee that he is.
Oh, oops, I thought you were saying that my explanation was stupid, not that Greg Bear's "Ur-Didact" was stupid, my bad.
But yeah, I do agree that it makes no sense and sounds a bit silly, why not just call them "Didact" and "Bornstellar-Didact"?
What do you call a lasgun with a laser sight on it? Twin linked :3
Or why not say something like "Ante-Didact" or even the "Antecedent" ("antedens" means pre-existing in Latin and we all should know that Antecedent means something preceding) which gives the previous Didact a more serious title? Something as simple as Ur-Didact just seems like it's one of those unintelligent attempts at creative design, like naming something Unobtainium simply because it's difficult to obtain. It also reaches the trope "Did Not Do the Research" which has already been explained in the thread.
More on "Did Not Do the Research" trope:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.ph...tDoTheResearch
Last edited by DarkHalo003; July 18th, 2012 at 06:09 PM.
"We also tried switching back, but they say we're using too many resources. Fuck them."
Not to mention that Ante-Didact sounds much better than Ur-Didact. The latter sounds like somebody screaming "LOLOL, UR TEH DIDACT!!1!!1!one!11!!"
What do you call a lasgun with a laser sight on it? Twin linked :3
So anyone got Silentium yet? was thinking the other day when does the third book comes out, checked today and was shocked it was already out lol I'm just waiting for the Kindle version.
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