RBP6 Lurker Thread

[Gazzahk]

you guys are funny

Thank goodness for Thoth, at least the game seems more alive now.

[Nicolae Carpathia]

Haha I just realised that you can make out the size of a city in the background behind Oledavey's Mausoleum post. If you put in more effort you can probably figure out the tile improvements lol.

[Bobchillingworth]

Incoming "no diplo" post.

The idea behind an Always War game is no communication between the different teams. That's how the original term CTON (Cannot Talk Or Negotiate) was coined...

BWEEP, BWEEP, DETECTING DANGEROUS LEVELS OF GAIETY


SOMEONE GET THE FUN POLICE

[darrelljs]

I swear I thought NH was crazy, and that there was no way anyone would object .

Darrell

[MJW (ya that one)]

BWEEP, BWEEP, DETECTING DANGEROUS LEVELS OF GAIETY


SOMEONE GET THE FUN POLICE

I did not know what gaiety meant so I read it as gay-it-ty at first.

[SevenSpirits]

I did not know what gaiety meant so I read it as gay-it-ty at first.

Er, yes? That's what the word "gay" means. Gaiety is people being gay.

[MJW (ya that one)]

Er, yes? That's what the word "gay" means. Gaiety is people being gay.

No, its not. Gaiety comes from a different source other than gay. I remembered the source gay comes from and it is not he same as gaiety. Quoting M-W.
Gay: Middle English, from Anglo-French gai, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German gāhi quick, sudden
First Known Use: 14th century
Gaiety: French gaieté
First Known Use: 1634

Using the word gay this much makes me .

[kjn]

You need to dig deeper in your etymology here. M-W is quite shallow. Sadly, there is a lack of good etymological dictionaries on the web, but wiktionary.org goes a little deeper:

gaiety: From French gaieté from French gai

gai: Old French gai from Old Provençal gai, of Germanic origin, from Gothic (gaheis, “impetuous”)[1] or from Frankish *gāhi (“fast, sudden, impetuous”), Frankish *wāhi (“pretty”)[2]. Cognate with English gay and Italian gaio.

gay: From Old French gai, blend of jai (“merry”) and Old Provençal gai (“impetuous, lively”),[1] both from Frankish *gāhi (compare Dutch gauw (“fast; quickly”)), from Proto-Germanic *gēha (compare Low German (Westphalian) gau, gai, German jäh (“abrupt, sudden; abruptly”)), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵhēi- (“to go”).[2][3] More at go.

[MJW (ya that one)]

You need to dig deeper in your etymology here. M-W is quite shallow. Sadly, there is a lack of good etymological dictionaries on the web, but wiktionary.org goes a little deeper:

gaiety: From French gaieté from French gai

gai: Old French gai from Old Provençal gai, of Germanic origin, from Gothic (gaheis, “impetuous”)[1] or from Frankish *gāhi (“fast, sudden, impetuous”), Frankish *wāhi (“pretty”)[2]. Cognate with English gay and Italian gaio.

gay: From Old French gai, blend of jai (“merry”) and Old Provençal gai (“impetuous, lively”),[1] both from Frankish *gāhi (compare Dutch gauw (“fast; quickly”)), from Proto-Germanic *gēha (compare Low German (Westphalian) gau, gai, German jäh (“abrupt, sudden; abruptly”)), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵhēi- (“to go”).[2][3] More at go.

At least someone used the word gay which is

[fluffyflyingpig]

You need to dig deeper in your etymology here. M-W is quite shallow. Sadly, there is a lack of good etymological dictionaries on the web, but wiktionary.org goes a little deeper:

gaiety: From French gaieté from French gai

gai: Old French gai from Old Provençal gai, of Germanic origin, from Gothic (gaheis, “impetuous”)[1] or from Frankish *gāhi (“fast, sudden, impetuous”), Frankish *wāhi (“pretty”)[2]. Cognate with English gay and Italian gaio.

gay: From Old French gai, blend of jai (“merry”) and Old Provençal gai (“impetuous, lively”),[1] both from Frankish *gāhi (compare Dutch gauw (“fast; quickly”)), from Proto-Germanic *gēha (compare Low German (Westphalian) gau, gai, German jäh (“abrupt, sudden; abruptly”)), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵhēi- (“to go”).[2][3] More at go.

etymonline, for all of your online etymology needs (when you don't have the OED)



gay
late 14c., "full of joy, merry; light-hearted, carefree;" also "wanton, lewd, lascivious" (late 12c. as a surname, Philippus de Gay), from O.Fr. gai "joyful, happy; pleasant, agreeably charming; forward, pert" (12c.; cf. O.Sp. gayo, Port. gaio, It. gajo, probably French loan-words). Ultimate origin disputed; perhaps from Frankish *gahi (cf. O.H.G. wahi "pretty"), though not all etymologists accept this. Meaning "stately and beautiful; splendid and showily dressed" is from early 14c. The word gay by the 1890s had an overall tinge of promiscuity -- a gay house was a brothel. The suggestion of immorality in the word can be traced back at least to the 1630s, if not to Chaucer:

But in oure bed he was so fressh and gay
Whan that he wolde han my bele chose.

Slang meaning "homosexual" (adj.) begins to appear in psychological writing late 1940s, evidently picked up from gay slang and not always easily distinguished from the older sense:

After discharge A.Z. lived for some time at home. He was not happy at the farm and went to a Western city where he associated with a homosexual crowd, being "gay," and wearing female clothes and makeup. He always wished others would make advances to him. ["Rorschach Research Exchange and Journal of Projective Techniques," 1947, p.240]

The association with (male) homosexuality likely got a boost from the term gay cat, used as far back as 1893 in Amer.Eng. for "young hobo," one who is new on the road, also one who sometimes does jobs.

"A Gay Cat," said he, "is a loafing laborer, who works maybe a week, gets his wages and vagabonds about hunting for another 'pick and shovel' job. Do you want to know where they got their monica (nickname) 'Gay Cat'? See, Kid, cats sneak about and scratch immediately after chumming with you and then get gay (fresh). That's why we call them 'Gay Cats'." [Leon Ray Livingston ("America's Most Celebrated Tramp"), "Life and Adventures of A-no. 1," 1910]

Quoting a tramp named Frenchy, who might not have known the origin. Gay cats were severely and cruelly abused by "real" tramps and bums, who considered them "an inferior order of beings who begs of and otherwise preys upon the bum -- as it were a jackal following up the king of beasts" [Prof. John J. McCook, "Tramps," in "The Public Treatment of Pauperism," 1893], but some accounts report certain older tramps would dominate a gay cat and employ him as a sort of slave. In "Sociology and Social Research" (1932-33) a paragraph on the "gay cat" phenomenon notes, "Homosexual practices are more common than rare in this group," and gey cat "homosexual boy" is attested in N. Erskine's 1933 dictionary of "Underworld & Prison Slang" (gey is a Scottish variant of gay).

The "Dictionary of American Slang" reports that gay (adj.) was used by homosexuals, among themselves, in this sense since at least 1920. Rawson ["Wicked Words"] notes a male prostitute using gay in reference to male homosexuals (but also to female prostitutes) in London's notorious Cleveland Street Scandal of 1889. Ayto ["20th Century Words"] calls attention to the ambiguous use of the word in the 1868 song "The Gay Young Clerk in the Dry Goods Store," by U.S. female impersonator Will S. Hays, but the word evidently was not popularly felt in this sense by wider society until the 1950s at the earliest.

"Gay" (or "gai") is now widely used in French, Dutch, Danish, Japanese, Swedish, and Catalan with the same sense as the English. It is coming into use in Germany and among the English-speaking upper classes of many cosmopolitan areas in other countries. [John Boswell, "Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality," 1980]

Gay as a noun meaning "a (usually male) homosexual" is attested from 1971; in M.E. it meant "excellent person, noble lady, gallant knight," also "something gay or bright; an ornament or badge" (c.1400).



TLDR: Gay and Gaity have the same root word, the Old French word gai




Also, this game was doomed from conception and needs to end so already we can have a real pitboss up again. The fun police and other problems with this game have just made things worse. How sad.