IC: In response

[karohemd]

Klan Nocker might rock but not for very long because they'd starve if the Bogganarmi refuse to serve food to obnoxious dimwits who try to use the stove for their useless experiments and blow it up in the progress...
If all else fails, I'm sure our Warlord will come up with a cunning plan.

Sam, General of the Bogganarmi
OOC: Ozzy, Assistant Event Coordinator: Food, allegedly *winces* Damn you, Abi! *shakes fist*

Comments

[zenmeisterin.livejournal.com]

And THAT is how you do it.

:-)

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

*grins and bows*

[taimatsu]

What is a Bogganarmi and how does it differ from a correctly spelt and punctuated 'Boggan Army'? I can't see my character belonging to the former, though the latter is a possibility.

[crocodilewings.livejournal.com]

Language exists to serve the users!

[taimatsu]

Why is it better or more useful to say 'Bogganarmi' instead of 'Boggan Army' or even 'Bogganarmy'? What use does it serve? *Why bother* writing it wrongly?

[crocodilewings.livejournal.com]

1) It distinguishes it from just any Boggan Army.

2) It looks and sounds like a sleeker, faster, more kung-fu-esque term. Try saying it over and over again, in a pseudo-cantonese accent if you feel up to it.

3) It's more satisfying to shout when drunk. With no space between the words, it's easier to flow into the "armi", and even if you do stumble, people are less likely to notice.

4) It's a proper noun. Ergo it is grammatically correct.

[taimatsu]

1) There are no others. Round here, anyway.
2) Boggans are anything but sleek and fast. I can't believe you actually mentioned kung fu in a Boggan-related context.
3) I don't get drunk, ever.
4) I disagree. ‡

[crocodilewings.livejournal.com]

1) It's not a Boggan Army, it's the Bogganarmi! An autonomous and distinct object in unto itself, requiring a distinctive term by which to be addressed.

2) All the more reason for them to feel the need to let their hair down.

3) You had nothing to do with the Bogganarmi in its founding stages, and therefore your teetotalness, or indeed any of your personal characteristics, is irrelevent to its nomenclature.

4) Fine. Still a Proper Noun.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

The same reason it's Dippadoom™ and not Dip of Doom.
If you had been at the first Changeling National, you'd understand.
Blame faerierhona. ;o)

Besides, the Bogganarmi doesn't solely consist of Boggans, it includes everyone who helped out on the OOC front. It was an OOC term which got transferred into IC at one point.

Look at it this way, it's almost like a trademark, and many product or company names have unusual spellings to distinguish them from everyday words.

Besides, it's a roleplaying game, not the real world, dammit. ;o)

[taimatsu]

I don't find 'Dippadoom' an appealing spelling *either*. It always registers in my brain as faintly illiterate, as if someone hadn't realised that was 'of' not 'a'.

'Bogganarmi' sounds way too trendykewl for Boggans to be involved in. Most Boggans are comfortable, homely-type people and just wouldn't go in for that kind of leet-speek spelling. I care not what gets used as an OOC term; I can think it's a bit silly and not have to get involved, but if it's an IC concept then as the player of a Boggan character I have to deal with it in some way, and it just feels *wrong*. It's not a trademark - there is presumably only one army of Boggans that we're consdering here, there aren't lots of competing armies of Boggans, and therefore using simply 'Boggan Army' is not going to cause confusion.

How far-reaching an IC concept is it? What is it, IC? œ

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Er, I think now you're going a bit too far with your pedantry.
I point again to the bit that says "fun" and "game"...

At least I have the T-Shirt to prove it.

Also

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

The Bogganarmi includes everyone who helped in the kitchen, not just Boggans, hence using "Boggan Army" would be wrong. :oP

And that is the last in this argument. So ner.

[raggedyman.livejournal.com]

we posted something IC??

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Those two little letters got me into this trouble but I didn't think and was busy at work...

Did you see the directions and meeting up plan in the later post?