[quote=Alexis Kennedy][quote=babelfishwars][quote=Estelle Knoht][quote=ruen]May I humbly submit my LEAST favorite? "Ankle Manacles" has been bothering me for a long time. edited by ruen on 4/12/2015[/quote]
How? Is there a specific word you are allergic to?[/quote]
Non-FBG voice: I’m guessing it’s that the derivation is from ‘hand’ - so it’s a bit like ‘ankle handcuffs’. But they are used re: ankles elsewhere - it’s a general usage oddity, not a FL one.[/quote]
[color=rgb(0, 153, 0)]Like so much other word-choice stuff in FBG, this generated a lot of heat behind the scenes. It is, as Olivia says, a weird usage, but a usage, and we couldn’t find another word that was usefully specific.[/color]
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[color=rgb(0, 153, 0)]But six years on, sod it, it doesn’t need to be usefully specific, so I’m employing my fiat to go off and change it to Leg Irons.[/color][/quote]
Fetters would work, too. That word derives from "foot", I think.
“trimmed with an effect that absorbs light like water. the effect is dramatic, but the weight can be tiresome by the evening’s end” - night-trimmed frock coat
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[color=#009900]Like so much other word-choice stuff in FBG, this generated a lot of heat behind the scenes. It is, as Olivia says, a weird usage, but a usage, and we couldn’t find another word that was usefully specific.[/color]
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[color=#009900]But six years on, sod it, it doesn’t need to be usefully specific, so I’m employing my fiat to go off and change it to Leg Irons.[/color][/quote]
checks the Bazaar Huh. They’ve changed, all right. I must say, when I randomly decided to start a thread about the cool and amusing descriptions of items in this game, I hadn’t expected it to actually cause one of them to CHANGE. >> Even though it’s just a small thing, it feels… kind of good. And Leg Irons IS better. ^^
[quote=A B Nile][quote=Alexis Kennedy][quote=babelfishwars][quote=Estelle Knoht][quote=ruen]May I humbly submit my LEAST favorite? "Ankle Manacles" has been bothering me for a long time. edited by ruen on 4/12/2015[/quote]
How? Is there a specific word you are allergic to?[/quote]
Non-FBG voice: I’m guessing it’s that the derivation is from ‘hand’ - so it’s a bit like ‘ankle handcuffs’. But they are used re: ankles elsewhere - it’s a general usage oddity, not a FL one.[/quote]
[color=rgb(0, 153, 0)]Like so much other word-choice stuff in FBG, this generated a lot of heat behind the scenes. It is, as Olivia says, a weird usage, but a usage, and we couldn’t find another word that was usefully specific.[/color]
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[color=rgb(0, 153, 0)]But six years on, sod it, it doesn’t need to be usefully specific, so I’m employing my fiat to go off and change it to Leg Irons.[/color][/quote]
Fetters would work, too. That word derives from "foot", I think.[/quote]
What about shackles?
Clearly pedacles. Pedecles sounds like a guy who was too boring to make it into the Greek histories. Pedicles are the things my wife inflicts upon me during the cold sleeping months.
Totally. In Old Norse it’s fioturr (from ‘fotr’ ["foot"]).
I’m gonna stop myself now before I go on and on about ~EXCITING ETYMOLOGICAL TRIVIA~ But yes, ‘fetter’ as ‘manacle’s’ downstairs neighbor, for sure. edited by bitterhorn on 4/20/2015
I have just been shopping, as it were, and was reminded of these:
‘Propriety so stiff one could beat a presumptuous maid with it’ (Formidable Gown)
and
‘Suitable for a lady of restraint and dignity or a gentleman of highly specialised tastes’ (Respectable Grey Gown).
Also, the morning suit: ‘Brisk and clean. The attire of clerks, diplomats and the livelier sort of solicitor’ makes me smile. I like the idea of the less lively solicitors looking at the wearer with studied disapproval and muttering that he isn’t quite the thing.
I really enjoy the evocative poetic descriptions, such as the Night Whisper: eliminate the sound of the wind from the night, and you’ll hear silence. Eliminate the silence, and you’ll hear this.
But there are so many funny and clever descriptions that are perfect in the way they convey the everyday absurdity of Fallen London. The Gift of Scorn, for example: someone has sent you a dead bat in a little box. That’s the Feast of the Exceptional Rose for you.
Silk scrap: there probably can’t be that many spiders down here. Probably.
Winsome Dispossed Urchin: One has to pick a pocket or two. Regrettably.
Outlandish copy: the Bishop of Southwark is breeding an army of warrior-nuns! The Unterzee is rising two feet a year! Cheese is made of spiders!
I really love Abominable Salts, though: WARNING: consumption may cause vomiting, paralysis, and ennui.