Yahtzee Answers Your Questions About Mogworld
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MMORPG (pronounced emmemmoharpeegee) is not an acronym.
Yahtzee usual treatment (pronounced memmorpegga) is.
To use another example: FBI (effbee-aye) is merely an abbreviation, but FBI (fbee) would be an acronym.
Yahtzee usual treatment (pronounced memmorpegga) is.
To use another example: FBI (effbee-aye) is merely an abbreviation, but FBI (fbee) would be an acronym.
Terry Pratchett would perhaps agree that someone wanting to write only reading his books is stupid as well. lol
"Pratchett has said that to write, you must read extensively, both inside and outside your chosen genre[87] and to the point of "overflow".[24]" from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Pratchett
I do want to read Mogworld but I don't typically buy books, I usually borrow them from the library... Oh well...
"Pratchett has said that to write, you must read extensively, both inside and outside your chosen genre[87] and to the point of "overflow".[24]" from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Pratchett
I do want to read Mogworld but I don't typically buy books, I usually borrow them from the library... Oh well...
Really? Someone asked if there would be a sex scene?
More importantly, someone wants to see a Zombie sex scene?
*Stops looking at Left 4 Dead Hentai*
What I find funny is that his name on the cover of the book is actually printed as Yahtzee Crowshaw instead of Ben Crowshaw. Sort of like a Lemony Snicket kind of thing.
More importantly, someone wants to see a Zombie sex scene?
*Stops looking at Left 4 Dead Hentai*
What I find funny is that his name on the cover of the book is actually printed as Yahtzee Crowshaw instead of Ben Crowshaw. Sort of like a Lemony Snicket kind of thing.
Hmm... yeah... I'm definitely going pick Mogworld up at some point...
Don't know when... but I will...
And...
"...asks: will there be any sex scenes in it?"
(Yahtzee looks at the cover of the book)
NO.
HA!
Don't know when... but I will...
And...
"...asks: will there be any sex scenes in it?"
(Yahtzee looks at the cover of the book)
NO.
HA!
I wasn't going to get this - then I read the excerpt on Amazon (y'know, the one that starts from the beginning), and have quite totally changed my mind.
Starting a book anywhere but the beginning just makes no sense (i.e. the Escapist's excerpt). Excerpts are silly. Nearly turned me off what looks to be a fantastic novel.
Starting a book anywhere but the beginning just makes no sense (i.e. the Escapist's excerpt). Excerpts are silly. Nearly turned me off what looks to be a fantastic novel.
Goddamn you! You and your hate of... I can't stay mad at someone who looks and talks like that. I'm sorry Yatzhee, I didn't mean to make you mad. /joke]
OT: Pretty funny, even though it is just him answering questions. I think it more has to do with hearing him from something different then the equivalent of this: "hatehatehatehateahatepenisjokehate" and more like this "hate hate hate hate hate penis joke hate". Anyway, good luck with the book, Yatzhee. I'll pick up a copy as soon as the rents paid. And the book isn't thirty bucks.
OT: Pretty funny, even though it is just him answering questions. I think it more has to do with hearing him from something different then the equivalent of this: "hatehatehatehateahatepenisjokehate" and more like this "hate hate hate hate hate penis joke hate". Anyway, good luck with the book, Yatzhee. I'll pick up a copy as soon as the rents paid. And the book isn't thirty bucks.
Incorrect, please read a dictionary.DPutna17 said:
"a word formed from the initial letters or groups of letters of words in a set phrase or series of words"
Thus, when saying MMORPG as Yahtzee usually says it (as if it was one word), MMORPG is an acronym; when stating each letter in the series, it is but an abbreviation. If you are not pronouncing it the letters as if they were parts of a single word, it is not an acronym.
As pronounced
not pronounced asacronym---pronounced as acronym---abbreviation in question
effbee aye-----------------fby---------------------FBI
emmemmoharpeegee-----------memmorpegga-------------MMORPG
enayessay------------------nasa--------------------NASA
yewessay-------------------oosah-------------------USA
yewen----------------------un----------------------UN
araydee ayar---------------raydar------------------RADAR
see aye a------------------see a-------------------CIA
dee you eye----------------dooy--------------------DUI
emmayedeedee---------------mad---------------------MADD
(The above table looked better on the edit screen, but I cannot make it look good post post. Just assume that the hyphens separate columns and that the columns actually line-up with one another.)
So we see that (conventionally) NASA, RADAR, and MADD are acronyms; FBI, USA, UN, and CIA are not. DUI is often used both as an acronym and not. MMORPG is often used as an acronym by Yahtzee, but is not in the above-mentioned case, and is conventionally not.
Yeah, I got that, I just pointed out that I'm pretty much doing the same thing in only reading his books. I could have worded it a little better though.RemSaverem said: