Psullie Posted April 15, 2018 Share Posted April 15, 2018 How do you pronounce Nochet? Hard C, silent C, silent T, long O, short O... Know - che? Naugh che? No het? ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joerg Posted April 15, 2018 Share Posted April 15, 2018 15 minutes ago, Psullie said: How do you pronounce Nochet? Hard C, silent C, silent T, long O, short O... Know - che? Naugh che? No het? ... "Not yet", as in "Do you know the name of this metropolis in Esrolia?" Along with Corflu one of the more fancy ways of naming in Glorantha. 3 1 Quote Telling how it is excessive verbis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jajagappa Posted April 15, 2018 Share Posted April 15, 2018 I pronounce it either: No chet (long O, with ch as in cheese, and hard final T - so much like 'chest' but dropping the 's') OR Noch et (with first syllable sounding like 'notch', an 'eh' sound and hard final T). Or occasionally the last syllable more like 'yet'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yelm's Light Posted April 16, 2018 Share Posted April 16, 2018 I prefer No-SHAY (long 'o') myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g33k Posted April 16, 2018 Share Posted April 16, 2018 In this regard, Tekumel beats Glorantha -- Barker's linguistic foundations make these sorts of questions easier to address than Stafford's mythological ones. /heresy Quote C'es ne pas un .sig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Mohrfield Posted April 16, 2018 Share Posted April 16, 2018 1 hour ago, g33k said: In this regard, Tekumel beats Glorantha -- Barker's linguistic foundations make these sorts of questions easier to address than Stafford's mythological ones. /heresy And yet I still don't know how to pronounce "Tekumel". 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roko Joko Posted April 16, 2018 Share Posted April 16, 2018 A 1597 scroll cataloged 14 variations in regular use in the annual Nochet limerick competitions, but most often just "knock it". Quote What really happened? The only way to discover that is to experience it yourself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yelm's Light Posted April 16, 2018 Share Posted April 16, 2018 TEH-cue-mel. (There's an accent over the first 'e.') Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrutila Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 On 4/15/2018 at 11:38 PM, Joerg said: Along with Corflu one of the more fancy ways of naming in Glorantha. Please, can someone explain this Corflu thing? I tried but really don't get it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Byll Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 In the the first age before the God-learner word processor laser printer quests there were mechanical contraptions called duplicators which in practise required application of correction fluid to fix errors mistakenly cut into stencils. It was often referred to as cor-flu. Anyway, I was wearing an onion on my belt with was the fashion at the time... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metcalph Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 25 minutes ago, jrutila said: Please, can someone explain this Corflu thing? I tried but really don't get it. Corflu is a common shorthand for Correction Fluid. Hence the comment: Quote It was named after the wife of Tolkazzi; who is unknown to history except through her husband’s compliment that, “she corrects all my mistakes, treading upon my life and erasing the errors I’ve made from my weary mind.” Pavis: Gateway to Adventure I think the name comes about because the bay which the Zola Fel runs into was originally known as Christian's Bay (Greg promised Wolm Church to name the bay after his new child and Wilm called the kid Christian Church). You can see the name on the map of Genertela in the 1st edition Nomad Gods rulebookl PDF p67. My thinking is that after a few days Greg wrote Corflu! and an arrow mark to the legend "Christian's Bay" with the intention to erase it. But it looked like he had named a town... 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Meints Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 (edited) 19 hours ago, jrutila said: Please, can someone explain this Corflu thing? I tried but really don't get it. Correction Fluid, aka "corflu" was mainly used back in the days of typewriters. It is called Tippex in the UK. It is also referred to as White-out and Liquid Paper. In the early days of RuneQuest, around 1975 and 1978, Greg put the names of a number of the WB&RM contributors and RQ playtesters as the names of cities and towns on the William Church maps of the Dragon pass and Prax boardgames. They include such places as Pimper's Block (Jeff Pimper), Wilm's Church (William Church), Jonstown (Bill Johnson), Tada's High Tumulus (Tadashi Ehara), Biggle Stone (Clint Bigglestone), Swenstown (Steve Swenston), Tourney Altar (Art and Ray Turney), Cam's Well (Cam Stafford), Hender's Ruins (Steve Henderson), Hendriki (Hendrik Pfeifer), and of course Duck Point. Duck Point was named by Greg's co-publisher of Wyrd magazine, Brian Crist. Brian was a huge fan of Carl Barks, author/artist of Donald Duck comics from 1942 to 1966, and inventor of most of the characters in the strip. ("I'm a big Barks fan too," said Greg, "Want me to list the characters he invented?") Brian wanted Duckburg, from the comics, but since the Air Pirates had just been successfully sued by Disney Greg was worried about the same thing happening, and changed it to Duck Point for copyright reasons, which was OK with Brian. Laca, "the city of brown air" derives from Los Angeles (LA), California (CA). It looks better shown in all caps, like on the Church map. LACA Naming stuff in honor of key players and contributors continued on other maps, like the wonderful map of the Holy Country found in the RQ Companion. Kenstone island (Ken Kaufer) for example. Nochet City got its name when Rudy Kraft asked Greg if he had named that unlabelled city on the map and he said "not yet". More info when I dig it out of the archives. Edited April 19, 2018 by Rick Meints found more info 7 3 Quote Hope that Helps,Rick Meints - Chaosium, Inc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psullie Posted April 18, 2018 Author Share Posted April 18, 2018 So Joerg wasn't joking! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jajagappa Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 2 hours ago, Psullie said: So Joerg wasn't joking! Not at all! The story of Nochet's name origin has been known for awhile. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yelm's Light Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 12 hours ago, metcalph said: ...(Greg promised Wolm Church to name the bay after his new child and Wilm called the kid Christian Church)... Yet another example of crimes against children. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joerg Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 11 hours ago, Psullie said: So Joerg wasn't joking! No need to, when reality writes the funny stories. And yes, I basically tried to be helpful. 2 1 Quote Telling how it is excessive verbis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Mohrfield Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 I think the story goes that Greg Stafford meant "not yet", but pronounced it something like "notch yet", thus the player's confusion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Meints Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 More digging and researching: Corflu was named one very late night as Greg was finishing up the names for Prax and, as he told me, "My mind had stopped working, so I named it after the first thing my eyes focused on--a bottle of corflu." 4 1 Quote Hope that Helps,Rick Meints - Chaosium, Inc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithN Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 I used the same method as Greg when coming up with NPC names on the fly. Hence Domen-Ab and Egl were both named after hit locations. There is some fun to be had finding references to people in the Guide. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stew Stansfield Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 I'm half-convinced the Caladran ancestor, Kudja, was named in the same fashion. "Greg, it just says 'ancestor god' here at the mo'. Could you give him a name?" 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yelm's Light Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 Notchet sounds like a tourist who's trying to mangle the language as badly as possible. Whatever its origins, you can at least make it sound exotic. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott-martin Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 14 minutes ago, Yelm's Light said: Notchet sounds like a tourist who's trying to mangle the language as badly as possible. Whatever its origins, you can at least make it sound exotic. Now I'm imagining the pilgrims looking for directions to "Natchez." 1 Quote singer sing me a given Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
womble Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 At least "Duck Point" is the answer to an existential quandry, namely: "I don't see the point of ducks." "Just look at the map." 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tedopon Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 "Not Yet," but like an American/Canadian would say it in speech. Quote 121/420 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tedopon Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 On 4/23/2018 at 9:48 AM, scott-martin said: Now I'm imagining the pilgrims looking for directions to "Natchez." I ate at one of the weirdest restaurants in Natchez. Cock of the Walk 1 Quote 121/420 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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