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E-giss eh? I have always been an A-giss guy. I shall correct my gooder grammar.
Personally I was calling it Ay-guess, but to counteract your now good grammar, I am going to call it A-ghey-guss from now on, because deep deep down my dyslexic DNA knows all human language is an artificial construct that does not actually exist as a thing in reality.

Words are just guttural sounds that animals who know not what they mean can mimic by chance or intentionally, letters are just marks on a wall that can be formed at random by the sea-weed washing up upon the shore or by the clouds in the sky.

If spellings and grammar are to people what flying is to birds, I am a penguin.
 
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Finally got it on round 3. Looks like ill be working a lot of overtime for the next few weeksView attachment 8185 This set is actually going a lot slower still 4 of each left warbond.
CONGRATULATIONS!

You did well to resist the black market, yours may have been the most laborious purchase of a Javelin on record.
 

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Finally got it on round 3. Looks like ill be working a lot of overtime for the next few weeksView attachment 8185 This set is actually going a lot slower still 4 of each left warbond.
Woohoo!! Congrats brother!
Personally I was calling it Ay-guess, but to counteract your now good grammar, I am going to call it A-ghey-guss from now on, because deep deep down my dyslexic DNA knows all human language is an artificial construct that does not actually exist as a thing in reality.

Words are just guttural sounds that animals who know not what they mean can mimic by chance or intentionally, letters are just marks on a wall that can be formed at random by the sea-weed washing up upon the shore or by the clouds in the sky.

If spellings and grammar are to people what flying is to birds, I am a penguin.
What he said! But with beer!
 
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I ended up picking up an Idris because i have no self control, and there was a sign earlier...
I think that's it for me. After my connie, anyways. And maybe if the new concept ship looks cool. Plus, I should probably pick up a dragonfly. Wait, that's still a lot of money. Dammit. :hand_splayed::neutral_face::face_palm:
 

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I ended up picking up an Idris because i have no self control, and there was a sign earlier...
I think that's it for me. After my connie, anyways. And maybe if the new concept ship looks cool. Plus, I should probably pick up a dragonfly. Wait, that's still a lot of money. Dammit. :hand_splayed::neutral_face::face_palm:
Grats man im glad they didnt go like wildfire im pretty settled now on my fleet dont think ill be spending anymore. ive got about 1k more floating in credits that ill use for future sales @DirectorGunner did you get yours?
 

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Personally I was calling it Ay-guess, but to counteract your now good grammar, I am going to call it A-ghey-guss from now on, because deep deep down my dyslexic DNA knows all human language is an artificial construct that does not actually exist as a thing in reality.

Words are just guttural sounds that animals who know not what they mean can mimic by chance or intentionally, letters are just marks on a wall that can be formed at random by the sea-weed washing up upon the shore or by the clouds in the sky.

If spellings and grammar are to people what flying is to birds, I am a penguin.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aegis
There's a button you can click to hear it pronounced. It's a word that already exists, so its pronunciation isn't subject to debate.
The new ship is called the Hammerhead, but because I invented it (which I didn't), I'm going to pronounce it "Ha-mjtld-goo". No.
 

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https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aegis
There's a button you can click to hear it pronounced. It's a word that already exists, so its pronunciation isn't subject to debate.
Except that in the pronunciation guide in the link you posted, it says you pronounce it like this: " \ ˈē-jəs also ˈā-jəs \"
That means that there is 2 ways to pronounce it, and therefore its pronunciation is, in fact, subject to debate. :stuck_out_tongue:
 

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https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aegis
There's a button you can click to hear it pronounced. It's a word that already exists, so its pronunciation isn't subject to debate.
The new ship is called the Hammerhead, but because I invented it (which I didn't), I'm going to pronounce it "Ha-mjtld-goo". No.
The Ancient Greeks, who founded the term as Aigis, the root of the word, didn't pronounce it that way and they came up with it.

The modern pronouncement has only been around since the 1700's, thats only 300 years. The game is set 900 years in the future so there is a high chance that pronunciation will change again, perhaps two or three times over especially considering we'll have whole other alien languages to influence the human dialect, not just other countries.

If the whole of the human race vanished tomorrow language and all its constructs and formalities would be nothing but the scratchings in the sand of a toddler, that gets washed away by the tide.

If an alien came from the stars to the Earth devoid of humans they may be able to get the meaning from the written word, but work out the sounds that it had spoken? Perhaps with recorded sound, but when a modern day example of French has a J and G sounds reversed for those letters, The German V is pronounced W etc, ET 'aint got no chance. I use the French and German examples, but for a person speaking those languages it is I who is pronouncing them differently.

Science is only correct until the next great discovery disproves what went before it, Language? Constantly evolving, never set in stone, unpreserveable.
 

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You didn't even have to finish your last sentence, and I'm already agreeing with you. A well-debated point, methinks.
Haha, I hadn't even noticed. Edited to make sense now.

Apologies to @supitza if I have taken a bit of a combative stance, I don't mean to argue so harshly about this subject but of the Dyslexic Persuasion this particular topic stabs at my very chromosomes.

I have decided to change my final pronounceable of Aegis to "I-Guess" in honor of this most excellent discussion. Apologies one again if I have come over a little strong :slight_smile:
 

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Haha, I hadn't even noticed. Edited to make sense now.

Apologies to @supitza if I have taken a bit of a combative stance, I don't mean to argue so harshly about this subject but of the Dyslexic Persuasion this particular topic stabs at my very chromosomes.

I have decided to change my final pronounceable of Aegis to "I-Guess" in honor of this most excellent discussion. Apologies one again if I have come over a little strong :slight_smile:
I actually quite like 'I-guess' as a pronunciation, mostly because puns (and, indeed, irony in general) are my favourite kind of humour.
I vote that it be the official TEST pronunciation.
Don't worry about coming on strong, mate, that just makes the whole thing funnier. :)
 

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Haha, I hadn't even noticed. Edited to make sense now.

Apologies to @supitza if I have taken a bit of a combative stance, I don't mean to argue so harshly about this subject but of the Dyslexic Persuasion this particular topic stabs at my very chromosomes.

I have decided to change my final pronounceable of Aegis to "I-Guess" in honor of this most excellent discussion. Apologies one again if I have come over a little strong :slight_smile:
Sorry. My quoting of your post was just to add to the discussion, not to shout at you. :) I understand after reading my post that it seemed directed towards you, and for that, I apologize.
My issue was that even CIG couldn't settle on one pronunciation, as they called Aegis 3 different ways in the same video.
 

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@Sirus7264 Wow congrats man! that's a hefty amount of cash to throw down at once!
But hey! we Jav bros now! High Fives

Grats man im glad they didnt go like wildfire im pretty settled now on my fleet dont think ill be spending anymore. ive got about 1k more floating in credits that ill use for future sales @DirectorGunner did you get yours?
Yep, got my Jav

Then gonna melt those hammerheads and something else and fight for an idris-p tonight.
And buy the hammerheads back at my leisure.
That's my plan anyway.. lol
 

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@Sirus7264 Wow congrats man! that's a hefty amount of cash to throw down at once!
But hey! we Jav bros now! High Fives



Yep, got my Jav

Then gonna melt those hammerheads and something else and fight for an idris-p tonight.
And buy the hammerheads back at my leisure.
That's my plan anyway.. lol

Holy Owl thats a lot of good stuff!

Congrats!
 

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@Sirus7264 Wow congrats man! that's a hefty amount of cash to throw down at once!
But hey! we Jav bros now! High Fives



Yep, got my Jav

Then gonna melt those hammerheads and something else and fight for an idris-p tonight.
And buy the hammerheads back at my leisure.
That's my plan anyway.. lol
I volunteer as a janitor for the captain's quarters. I'll clean up after the parties!
 

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Sorry. My quoting of your post was just to add to the discussion, not to shout at you. :slight_smile: I understand after reading my post that it seemed directed towards you, and for that, I apologize.
My issue was that even CIG couldn't settle on one pronunciation, as they called Aegis 3 different ways in the same video.
No need to apologise, I was saying it as much to me as to yourself, I sometimes have to reign myself in before I go full on Dyslexic-Pedant. That shit 'aint pretty.
 

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@Sirus7264 Wow congrats man! that's a hefty amount of cash to throw down at once!
But hey! we Jav bros now! High Fives



Yep, got my Jav

Then gonna melt those hammerheads and something else and fight for an idris-p tonight.
And buy the hammerheads back at my leisure.
That's my plan anyway.. lol
woohoo jav bros for life im not sure ill snag an idris though id have to melt my pioneer to get it along with my huge ammount of ccu discounts
 

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Thanks man that was some rush trying to get it
I bet. I can't wait to be in you...r ship. Haha
I have decided to change my final pronounceable of Aegis to "I-Guess" in honor of this most excellent discussion. Apologies one again if I have come over a little strong :slight_smile:
Ha, i-guess. Done and done. Have I told you today that I love your mind? No?!? I love your mind.
Holy Owl thats a lot of good stuff!
Wait, what? "Holy Owl"? I guess beer is a religion to us...
 
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