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Re: Almost 28 new names for 32 old marks
by AppleFritter (Vicar) on Sep 06, 2014 at 09:51 UTC
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Those are great!
When I run into a character I want to pronounce but can't easily, I sometimes use the name of something it might represent in Nethack instead:
! drink | grave @ me & fiend
$ gold ^ trap < up > down
( tool ) sword [ mail ] strange
{ font } wet : newt ; fish
" bling ' clay ` art ~ worm
= ring ? scroll . floor , band
/ wand \ throne - wall _ sanct
# sink * gem % food + book
Some of these are one-syllable alternatives to words used in the game: "drink" instead of "potion", "font" instead of "fountain", "bling" instead of "amulet", "sword" instead of "weapon" (though of course any given ) might indeed be a sword!), "wet" instead of "water", "clay" instead of "golem", "mail" instead of "armor", "art" instead of "statue", "fiend" instead of "demon", "strange" instead of "strange object" and "sanct" instead of "altar". And since , isn't used in (regular) Nethack at all, "band" is the shortened form of "Angband", another roguelike where , is a very common symbol.
Give 'em a try, though, they're fun to use - and guaranteed to either delight or hopelessly confuse your coworkers.
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Luna’s mane this is just perfect. I can’t believe I never thought of using NetHack names before.
Some of those are unwieldy, though. I’d suggest:
- “pool”, “moat” or “swamp” rather than “wet”
- “chain” rather than “sanct” (divine punishment)
- “pick” rather than “band” (named for the action, since the item doesn’t exist)
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Excellent suggestions! I think I'll start using all those.
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Re: Almost 28 new names for 32 old marks
by Anonymous Monk on Sep 07, 2014 at 16:46 UTC
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Thank you, tye, hdb, and AppleFritter. For your listening pleasure, I present code2words.pl. Now nobody can claim Perl is a write-only language!
Usage example: perl code2words.pl -t tye -o espeak yourscript.pl (note short inputs are probably better)
(Tested only on Linux so far.)
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Sweet Celestia, that is simply brilliant!
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So cool. "I laughed out loud!" Congratulations on thinking it up and doing it!
Funniest part of my trial: Google suggested a change of one letter, from 'a' to 'o', LOL
Did you mean: bash bang perl use strict sung use warnings sung use feature qw slash say slash sung use Carp qw slash croak confess slash sung use Data sing sing Dumper sung my bung a rung sling strong 1 2 3 4 5 strong slung sung chomp sling bungo slung sung say Dumper sash bung a sung sub sort lash num fling my bung sorted rung sort split strong strong dang bung lash sung return bung sorted sung flung my bung b rung sort lash num sling bung a slung sung say Dumper sash bung a sung say Dumper sash bung b sung lash lash END lash lash
(emphasis original from Google Translate)
The way forward always starts with a minimal test.
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Re: Almost 28 new names for 32 old marks
by hdb (Monsignor) on Sep 06, 2014 at 07:48 UTC
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Re: Almost 28 new names for 32 old marks
by MidLifeXis (Monsignor) on Sep 07, 2014 at 08:35 UTC
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< > ! * ' ' #
^ " ` $ $ -
! * = @ $ _
% * < > ~ # 4
& [ ] . . /
| { , , SYSTEM HALTED
bring brung bang splash strong strong bash
sting string strang bling bling dash
bang splash rung bung bling lash
rash splash bring brung swing bash <strike>number</strike> 4
dung cling clung ding ding slash
bong fling dang dang CRASH
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Re: Almost 28 new names for 32 old marks
by zentara (Cardinal) on Sep 06, 2014 at 12:52 UTC
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Finally, a working replacement for Esperanto. :-)
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Re: Almost 28 new names for 32 old marks
by LanX (Saint) on Sep 06, 2014 at 13:29 UTC
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Alternative strategy:
When studying math one of my friends called all capital Greek or Fraktur letters he couldn't identify within a formula (Phi, Psi, Chi, ...) just Wotan.
We just figured out what he meant... :)
Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :)
PS: he switched to studying economics after a year....
And no we don't have these Phi Psi Chi fraternity names over here. :)
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Re: Almost 28 new names for 32 old marks
by jdporter (Paladin) on Jun 12, 2015 at 16:09 UTC
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It wouldn't occur to me to call % "hash". It looks more like a sneer to me so sneer is what I call it
Never got my head round ! as "bang"; it's always been "shriek" to me. I wonder if this is a transatlantic difference or a generational one? Maybe us rightpondians are less familiar with things that go bang than our leftpondian cousins (but let's not go there; it usually ends in tears). What became of "pling" anyway?
^ is always "yay" to me as it feels like throwing one's hat in the air.
Readers not familiar with Glasgow sporting (and other corresponding) loyalties probably won't appreciate \ as "Rangers slash", / as "Celtic slash" and | as "Thistle slash¨.
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