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Ur lord?

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I tried to do a search on this but couldn't come up with it ...

What does the ur in ur lord mean? It is ever explained? Now I know about Ur of the chaldees but anyone know about this?
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See the Ur- thread.

And the Ur.. thread.
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Thank you...
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That has to be in the Top 10 most fequently asked questions here, heh. We should put together a list sometime.-jay
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You can do it in your spare time. ;)

Or when you're procrastinating. :P
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Yeah...I just got tons of that. Heh. (Maybe I'll have some free time in 2010...)

I was thinking you all could make the list for me. Heh.-jay
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I'll do it in my spare time. ;)

Or when I want to procrastinate. :P

Maybe. :twisted:
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I'm sorry about running you guys and girls around - being new here, I'm still learning my way around. I tried to search it and came up with so many hits...

Besides, I thought the number one most asked question would have been why the old lore of the Old Lords wasn't readily understood by the New Lords. I mean, in LFB, Atiaran explains to TC that the chief problem in understanding the old lore and Kevin's wards lay in the translation of the Old Lord's language. Wouldn't the Bloodguard and Giants have remembered that language? That seems to be a huge question to me.

Sorry for the rambling.
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Ramble all you want. We all do it. :biggrin:
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I think they way SRD explained this was that the Giants and Bloodguard had no need for lore and the latter also could not care less about it so even if they could translate the wards word for word the meaning would have remained hidden.
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How come no one ever asks who the Dur-Lord is?
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In Afrikaans we use a form of the prefix ur, written as oer, meaning very old, primordial etc.
oermens = early human
oertyd = ancient time
oeroupagrootjie = great grandfather
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Interesting. :)

And welcome to the Watch! 8)
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Post by Flon »

Thanks MsMary

Just finished FR and went to look for discussions and stuff, so that's how I ended up here.
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Yay! It's a great site. :D
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Newbie here too. But I knew what the ur- thing meant after I looked it up in a standard dictionary. Interesting that Afrikaans retains the word with the same meaning, sharing linguistic roots with English.

Anyone who reads SRD without a dictionary is either lazy or too stinking smart! :D
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deer of the dawn wrote:Newbie here too. But I knew what the ur- thing meant after I looked it up in a standard dictionary. Interesting that Afrikaans retains the word with the same meaning, sharing linguistic roots with English.

Anyone who reads SRD without a dictionary is either lazy or too stinking smart! :D
I've never read an SRD book with a dictionary (perhaps I may note and then look up a word later). Most of the time SRD's vast vocabulary is employed in such a way that the meaning of uncommon words is implied by the context within the sentence or statement. Also in the case of adjectives SRD will often use more than one. Surely there is at least one in the string that rings a bell. ...crepuscular, darkness...
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LORD FOUL'S BRAIN wrote: Most of the time SRD's vast vocabulary is employed in such a way that the meaning of uncommon words is implied by the context within the sentence or statement. Also in the case of adjectives SRD will often use more than one. Surely there is at least one in the string that rings a bell. ...crepuscular, darkness...
I agree.

There are those who say that all the unusual words detract from the Chronicles. I say they add to the magic of the books.
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Matrixman wrote:
LORD FOUL'S BRAIN wrote: Most of the time SRD's vast vocabulary is employed in such a way that the meaning of uncommon words is implied by the context within the sentence or statement. Also in the case of adjectives SRD will often use more than one. Surely there is at least one in the string that rings a bell. ...crepuscular, darkness...
I agree.

There are those who say that all the unusual words detract from the Chronicles. I say they add to the magic of the books.
And those of us who speak Latin or Greek wonder what all the fuss is about :P
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