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 Post subject: Europhia of Truth pills
PostPosted: Wed May 31, 2006 2:33 pm 
Um, unless Europhia is the name of something or someone, Isn't it supposed to be Euphoria? Europhia isn't a word I don't think. :o


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 Post subject: Re: Europhia of Truth pills
PostPosted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 12:35 am 
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Syndal wrote:
Um, unless Europhia is the name of something or someone, Isn't it supposed to be Euphoria? Europhia isn't a word I don't think. :o


Assuming these are the pills I think they are (purchased in a certain shrine beneath a certain town in a certain Empire), then you're absolutely right. It's a spelling mistake on the part of the area's creator. It was supposed to be Euphoria. :oops:

On the other hand, a) the mistake has been there so long now without comment thus far and b) is such a characteristic mistake on the part of the author as to almost be a signature, I think it should stay as is.

In addition to this, it turns out (completely by chance) that Europhia is actually a type of model glider, which makes it kind of apt given the effect of the pill in question and gliding (as in soaring in real sailplanes, not flying models) is a passion of the area's author.

Though I neither flew gliders at the time nor knew that it was a type of model glider when I made the typo. Pure serendipity :)

Oh, and the author was a Europian (abeit an islander at heart and thus generally completely at odds with the mindset and motives of most continentals). Europhia, European? Seems kind of apt.


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PostPosted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 12:44 am 
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It's almost as funny as the thuban priest preaching about the phallucies of truth ... :roll:


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 Post subject: Dictionary says
PostPosted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 4:20 am 
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It's almost as funny as the thuban priest preaching about the phallucies of truth ... :roll:

That would be an intentional "mispelling."


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PostPosted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 7:18 am 
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I don't get it... It must be because english is my secondary language - no offence intended.

EDIT: Also, I'd like to have someone explain it to me (again, it isn't an insult or pun by any means, I'm just hella curious).


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 Post subject: Pun pun
PostPosted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 7:34 pm 
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It's a play on words between:
"fallacy" - meaning incorrectness, falseness, and
"phallus" - meaning male genitalia.

The sexual reference was more applicable to the Lust mythos of the older Dreddnahr and Jinnahra faiths.


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PostPosted: Fri Jun 02, 2006 6:26 pm 
These pills are old? I've never seen them before. :o


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The sexual reference was more applicable to the Lust mythos of the older Dreddnahr and Jinnahra faiths.


Ah, so it was the obvious word pun. I guess I just didn't understand the lust referance because I've hardly been around with the older two faiths.


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