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My Life as a Teenage Juggernaut... (Worm AU x Marvel)

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Ace Dreamer said:
What I find interesting is how the meaning of both words is... unclear. Bolide, because you have to figure it out from context (something bright in the sky/hole in the ground) and the second because it's a (science fiction-al) human (mental) state, and those are generally messy...
(Yes, I'm a fan of uncommon words - I was also amused/bemused that English, last few years, broke the mega-word barrier...)
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Excuse me, but English is vastly under performing in the mega word competition in comparison to every other Germanic language.
 
VirtualFox said:
We need to go through a few more languages pockets and pick them for a few more words.
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Good luck with that. English lost the high art of the compound word a few centuries ago, while in at least one germanic language, it's still practiced today. ;)

Necrovore said:
While I doubt Eidolon would push for it himself, some might see it as a tool to threaten with if they want Taylor transferred to their command, or at least removed from the bay.
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Eh. While I agree if push came to shove, some kind of official ruling would have to be made, it's not on the level of a Truce Violation. Threats lose a lot of power when the inciting incident sits somewhere between "unforeseen power interaction" and "friendly fire", the latter of which everyone attending EB battles should expect as holding back equals suicide.
 
Kaernetron said:
Good luck with that. English lost the high art of the compound word a few centuries ago, while in at least one germanic language, it's still practiced today. ;)
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I expect there's some who would say 'compound words don't count', or, 'if the etymology is easy to do simply by dismantling the word...', or somesuch.

Basically, English she is mad and weird. And, yes, there's need to mug more other languages in dark alleyways, and loot them for extra vocab. :)
 
Point is, you can shake us down for loose words as much as you like, we'll just make more. :p

Wegbier and Feierabend are just two examples English should grab while she is lurking in that alley.
 
English portmanteaus all it wants by grabbing two or more words and squeezing them together into something smaller, but it can't create a word like stadsverwarmingsbuis. That'd be three separate words in English if you translate it.
 
Eh. English has come up in the world. It recently (for certain values of recent) took over the language bank from the French. As English offers much more ... Ahem... Generous terms, it is now getting (and giving) ALL the loan words.
 
Hazard said:
English portmanteaus all it wants by grabbing two or more words and squeezing them together into something smaller, but it can't create a word like stadsverwarmingsbuis. That'd be three separate words in English if you translate it.
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Hmm. Would that be 'district heater'? "How is this house warmed? By the district heater." "Where is the district heater? Oh, it's part of the local power station." Dunno, two words?
('distristation' - 'distris' for short, the combined heat and power station which provides district heating as well as electrical power. // Coining words for fun and profit? :) )

When Taylor grabs two, or more, words and squeezes them together, to make a smaller word, they stay squeezed!
 
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Remember, anyone can create any word they want, and assign it any meaning they want. But unless they can convince John Q Public the word is real, and means what they say it does... the word is made up and meaningless. As has been demonstrated more then once when someone tried coining a new word, and it absolutely never gained any usage beyond the person who created the word.
 
arromdee said:
Do we actually know this? We don't know how resistant Alexandria is to phasing. If Sophia phased a rock into Alexandria's lungs, maybe it could kill her.
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Could that kill Scion? He's the Warrior, Alex is effectively using his counterpart, the Thinker's, avatar body. RBC isn't using any of the biology in that body, including the brain to think. Also, that body is tough, all the way through - her lungs are probably strong enough to powder that rock.
 
arromdee said:
Taylor killed her in canon with bugs in her lungs. So her lungs are not strong enough to powder that rock, and yes she can die from not being able to breathe.
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Actually... that was a suspicious death. Also, Pretender was running her body, afterwards. Almost as though she believed she should be dead so (her mind) died...

There's no good reason her body needed to breathe, and 'shard added weakness/restriction for the Cycle/more Data', doesn't apply because she was using a vial, and a personal Thinker shard never intended to be deployed...
(Eidolon used another personal Thinker shard, 'High Priest' (QA counterpart), Legend another, Hero too. Siberian might have been one of those, too - it's unclear.)
 
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Ace Dreamer said:
What I find interesting is how the meaning of both words is... unclear. Bolide, because you have to figure it out from context (something bright in the sky/hole in the ground) and the second because it's a (science fiction-al) human (mental) state, and those are generally messy...
(Yes, I'm a fan of uncommon words - I was also amused/bemused that English, last few years, broke the mega-word barrier...)
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When I hear Bolide, I think the Meteor Spell from Dragon's Dogma. The second, that is new. Now I want to see some random OC Cast a Tier 3 Bolide on Juggertaylor.
 
Ace Dreamer said:
Could that kill Scion? He's the Warrior, Alex is effectively using his counterpart, the Thinker's, avatar body. RBC isn't using any of the biology in that body, including the brain to think. Also, that body is tough, all the way through - her lungs are probably strong enough to powder that rock.
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I thought that the Siberian was the Scion projection equivalent.
 
Ace Dreamer said:
There's no good reason her body needed to breathe, and 'shard added weakness/restriction for the Cycle/more Data', doesn't apply because she was using a vial, and a personal Thinker shard never intended to be deployed...
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Remember who wrote Worm. It's likely that it was never considered.
An alternate (and better) explanation: due to her connection to Cauldron being exposed, she was watched far too closely; so she used the situation to fake her death to be able to act more freely.
 
katman said:
I thought that the Siberian was the Scion projection equivalent.
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I don't believe so. Scion has a physical body, like the host species. Odds are he could produce a Siberian-like effect, if he wanted to. Destroying that physical body is part of defeating Scion.

After Thinker litho-braked, Fortuna stabs the forming physical body of the Thinker avatar, in what later becomes called the Flesh Garden, following 'Path to Victory' plan. Stabbing the Siberian...

PhoebusArtemis said:
Remember who wrote Worm. It's likely that it was never considered.
An alternate (and better) explanation: due to her connection to Cauldron being exposed, she was watched far too closely; so she used the situation to fake her death to be able to act more freely.
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I do like this theory... Still needs a little polish, though. :)
 
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