Most ridiculous little golem usename

All you! You all! Shame on you!

'Most ridiculous little golem usename', slaapgraag 'won'! If you hadn't said you want to spend some time with me in the pub, I would... Well, I would....

(Well, I got those 15 point myself too, anyway...)

Congrats ;) I got only 3.

Btw I had wojtex in my list until the last few hours, when I changed it to FatPhil. 1 point loss ;)

I also got one 1-pointer, but the past games won't load so I don't know who it was.

@slaapgraag: congrats for first place!

@somar96: You actually lost 2 points (and some of your opponents lost 1).

@all-8-that-voted-me: thnx.

I do not 'second' slaapgraag's motion. I feel flattered. Not because my fellow GoE players think my nickname is ridiculous. They don't. But because they know it's not a real person's name (Our GoE players are polite enough that the top real name was only 7 points.) and that it's used by a player who consistently shows up on GoE's top 10.

nice game!! jajajja

It was a curious one. As implied by MG, I just went for the liveliest members obviously not using their real name. Alas I reverted to the old kpato spelling, rather than the new kp4to one, so scored only 1 for that.

I just took ten out of the 11 names that were on the very page I had to fill in. I should have taken the least known out and replaced it with either FatPhil or ypercube... or the one with a real name.

by the way... should I deduce from being passed by FatPhil, that some people think Hjallti is my real name? Or was it misspelled again often?

"Ypercube" is also bizarre because of the spelling. I imagine it's a letter for letter transcription of the Greek, as my first name is from Hebrew. But it took me a while to realize there wasn't some additional sardonic meaning beyond the word that in English is "hypercube". I suppose if he limits himself to four dimensions, he could be called Tesseract.

Dvd's your real name? I had assumed it was shorthand for David (which I guess it is).

The pronunciation's different, even though the root's the same.

I was told that Hebrew traditionally doesn't write vowels (they would be dots above and below consonants, but they are often omitted). That would explain 'Dvd'.

It also opens up a realm of reinterpretation for the bible, as the original is in Hebrew, and many translations from the previous centuries are today considered incorrect, like the famous line '...rather does a camel fit through a needle's eye...', which never seemed to make sense; the words for 'camel' and 'line' (in sea mens' lingo) have the same consonants. It is thought that some monk - while translating to Latin - and of course not being very versed in sea mens' lingo - guessed the vowels wrong, and it became a camel. Trying to fit a thick rope through a needle's eye makes a lot more sense for a metaphor...

Mostly yes. The dots for vowels (a system that was designed millennia after the Hebrew alphabet) are generally below. A dot inside or above may modify certain consonants and there's one letter which can denote a consonant if there's no do and either of two vowels, depending on whether there's a dot 'inside' (actually along side as the letter approximates a vertical bar) or above. Ancient Hebrew had none of these dots and one just had to know the pronunciation and meaning from context. Most modern Hebrew is read the same way.

Here in Flandrens when someone is called 'David' you don't know the pronouncation. A guy from school is now a famous writer (won a big dutch price with his history of Congo) and called David. I am still surprized that on radio and TV he is called David with the English pronouncations as I am used to here it with the dutch which means that the "A" is pronounced properly with the clear A sound which in english is only I and eye (but both end unclear).

By the way the camel thhrough the needle's eye I always heard explaining that the 'needle's eye' referrs to a very small portal to enter Jerusalem, but I never checked that one.

In ancient greek the 'h' is also a letter symbol but a kind of accent (spiritus) every word starting with a voyel has either the asper or the other. When asper is there you should asperate the 'h' before. In French it is actually opposite if the 'h' is there sometimes you shouldn't pronounced (hôtel sounds 'otel'; note that the 's' from 'hostel', also became ^ in french)

Anyway in modern greek one forgot the asperation so the ancient hyper became now yper. ypercube is the Modern Greek word for the ancient 'hyper cube' which in Latin would be 'super cube' (the last remark and the fact we use hyper proofs that Ancient Greeks had better mathematicians that the Romans)

Hjallti wrote: ...the 's' from 'hostel', also became ^ in french...

Yes, and according to my history lessons, that happened because they had to save. Paper (or what went as such in those times) was quite expensive, and all kind of measures were taken to save on it. So they started writing the 's' atop of the previous letter, which saves some space...