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Kzinti Empire - offical empire thread

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Kzinti Empire - offical empire thread

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You have dared to enter the lair of the most ferocious predators in the galaxy!

It is the ulitmate destiny of the Kzinti to conquer the other civilizations of the galaxy, subjugate and enslave any who may prove useful to us, and devour the rest. The Fanged God has ordained that this is how it will be.

In just 26 octals of days (7 months or so...Kzinti count in base 8), the Kzinti Empire rose from obscurity, to #1 on the Metaverse. With the blessings of the Fanged God, we have remained dominant for 100s more octals of days since that auspicious day.  We leapt past the other empires, and our mighty domain now encompasses over 32 million more light years than the second most powerful empire.  The most recent Galactic Map data shows that we have subjugated over 45% of the galaxy.  Many warriors from the old and dying empires have joined us, to avoid being eaten along with the rest.  We hunger to establish indefinite supremacy over all the inferior sentient species...

We have also been #1 on the AltMeta for over 3 years running. The Empire grows more powerful with each passing day as new conquests are won, and more warriors join us in our inevitable rise to rule the galaxy!

The Kzinti are a species of bipedal space-faring feline predators, who love nothing more than conquest and battle. Created by sci-fi writer Larry Niven, the Kzinti have had many stories written about them, most notably in the Man-Kzin Wars series of books. They have also shown up in the Star Trek universe, and a number of other realities.

 

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"Kzinti flesh has a very strong and pungent taste. The weak among us are devoured by their litter-mates within a few moons of birthing. Only the swiftest and most ferocious of us survive to their first naming-day. Those not fit to survive will never live to perpetuate their inferior bloodlines. This is the natural law of the galaxy." - Kzinti Warrior

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"The meaning of life is the hot blood of your prey on your tongue, the meat that rends beneath your teeth, the corpse of your enemy left in the sun for the carrion eaters to finish, your defeated foe groveling in submission before you. That is what life is. We are the Kzinti, and we stronger, swifter, wiser, and more ferocious than any other race ever was or will be." - Kzinti philosopher

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If your claws can grasp it, then it is rightfully yours. - Kzinti proverb

A salute to all those heroic t'kzintar who have made this empire a resounding success. Our conquests continue and the galaxy will never know peace!

Join the Kzinti in our quest for galactic dominance, or become our prey…

Click here to join the Kzinti Empire!

Click here to visit our forums at the Galactic Core

Click here to download the Kzinti ship and race mod from the Library

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Sentient species taste better...

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Reply #2676 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Quoting Sole, reply 25
This message brought to you by your friendly neighborhood Grammar Spelling Sheriff. 

This message brought to you by your friendly neighborhood Diction Sheriff  :grin:

Reply #2677 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

double post

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Reply #2678 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Quoting dystopic, reply 1
This message brought to you by your friendly neighborhood Diction Sheriff 

pwned

My spelling in posts has been horrid ever since they re-did the window.  Firefox's spellcheck no longer works...and I was a straight C student in English.  Also, I don't care about my spelling enough to copy/paste it in from Word or such.

Reply #2679 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Quoting dystopic, reply 1

Quoting Sole Soul, reply 25This message brought to you by your friendly neighborhood Grammar Spelling Sheriff. 
This message brought to you by your friendly neighborhood Diction Sheriff 

As diction only refers to spoken word, I'll have to correct you on that.  XD

Quoting Loupdinour, reply 3

Quoting dystopic, reply 1This message brought to you by your friendly neighborhood Diction Sheriff 
pwned

My spelling in posts has been horrid ever since they re-did the window.  Firefox's spellcheck no longer works...and I was a straight C student in English.  Also, I don't care about my spelling enough to copy/paste it in from Word or such.

That is annoying.  I dont recall if its something they did on purpose or by accident, but I wish they would fix it!

Kzinti empire2.JPG Sentient species taste better...

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Reply #2680 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Quoting Loupdinour, reply 3

Quoting dystopic, reply 1This message brought to you by your friendly neighborhood Diction Sheriff 
pwned

My spelling in posts has been horrid ever since they re-did the window.  Firefox's spellcheck no longer works...and I was a straight C student in English.  Also, I don't care about my spelling enough to copy/paste it in from Word or such.

that dose not work trust me i tryed i don't even know English i use to speck polish...

Reply #2681 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Also, I don't care about my spelling enough to copy/paste it in from Word or such.

Thank you for not caring. Copy pasta from word often breaks pages in IE. My work computer doesn't have Firefox, so I get stuck with topics I can't read.

Reply #2682 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Quoting KzintiPatriarch, reply 4
As diction only refers to spoken word, I'll have to correct you on that.


you might want to tell that to several dictionaries...
dic-tion
[dik-shuhn]
–noun
1.     style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words: good diction.
2.     the accent, inflection, intonation, and speech-sound quality manifested by an individual speaker, usually judged in terms of prevailing standards of acceptability; enunciation.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME diccion < LL dictio-n- (s. of dictio-) word, L: rhetorical delivery, equiv. to dict(us) said, spoken (ptp. of di-cere) + -io-n- -ion

Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2009


dic·tion 
(di(k'sh?n)
n. 

   1. Choice and use of words in speech or writing.
   2. Degree of clarity and distinctness of pronunciation in speech or singing; enunciation.


[Middle English diccion, a saying, word, from Old French, from Latin dictio-, dictio-n-, rhetorical delivery, from dictus, past participle of di-cere, to say, speak; see deik- in Indo-European roots.]
dic'tion·al adj., dic'tion·al·ly adv.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.


notice the primary meaning in both entries. but etymologically speaking, you are correct...

diction
1542, from L.L. dictionem (nom. dictio), from L. "a saying, expression, word," from dic-, stem of dicere "speak, tell, say," related to dicare "proclaim, dedicate," from PIE base *deik- "to point out" (cf. Skt. dic- "point out, show," Gk. deiknynai "to prove," O.H.G. zeigon, Ger. zeigen "to show," O.E. teon "to accuse," tæcan "to teach").

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper

Reply #2683 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

damn it. i don't know if i made a linguistic spelling, grammar or diction error in that post, but i sure as heck committed a mistake with computational syntax, and i can't seem to find an edit button. yet again, stardock's unruly forum design strikes again. why does it copy over, and then hide, code from other websites? i can't even edit or delete that post... if it's annoying enough, i'll ask kryo if he can simply delete it.

at any rate, my main point (if you can't tell through the unintented formatting) was that the primary meaning of "diction" includes the written word, but etymologically it does refer specifically to speech.

Reply #2684 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

In the future, always remember to copy/paste to notepad before putting it in here when you're copying from another webpage, as if you catch the start or end tags but not their matching partners, it'll break the page here.

Reply #2685 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

thanks kryo ^_^' i've done that in the past; i guess i wasn't thinking. i'll be sure to always do that in the future.

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Reply #2687 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

heh, that was pretty good.

i recall once reading about... someone's law. i forgot the name. it was a social law that essentially follows: if you correct someone's language on the internet, you're exceedingly likely to make a spelling, grammar or other language error in that very correction. for the life of me i can't remember the proper name attached to this social law.

Reply #2688 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Quoting dystopic, reply 12
heh, that was pretty good.

i recall once reading about... someone's law. i forgot the name. it was a social law that essentially follows: if you correct someone's language on the internet, you're exceedingly likely to make a spelling, grammar or other language error in that very correction. for the life of me i can't remember the proper name attached to this social law.

I believe Willy applied Murphy's Law to grammar and got that.  I'm not certain it was originally his idea, though, as it seems likely someone would have said something similar beforehand.

Reply #2690 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Is KzintiPatriarch Away at the moment? says he hasn't been logged on for a while

Reply #2691 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Mruphy's Law: Any post correcting another person's spelling or grammar will inevitably contain at least one spelling or grammatical error of it's own.

I in no way take credit for creating it, even though that particular paraphrase may be unique. Since I can't seem to find it, it's probably different from the first one I posted, as well

Reply #2692 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Mruphy's Law:

i assume you mean Murphy's Law ^_^ and actually, murphy's law is "anything that can go wrong, will go wrong."

Reply #2693 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Yes, I'm away in Boston at a sci-fi/fantasy/gaming/etc convention called Arisia.  I'll be back home by tomorrow. :)

Welcome to the Empire mADDYman!

Quoting Darth, reply 14
Thank you for the help KzintiPatriarch.

No problem Darth. :D

Kzinti empire2.JPG Sentient species taste better...

 

Reply #2694 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Quoting dystopic, reply 17

Mruphy's Law:
i assume you mean Murphy's Law and actually, murphy's law is "anything that can go wrong, will go wrong."

Nope, he means Mruphy's Law.

Mruphy's Law = Murphy's Law as it applies to grammar/etc.

Reply #2695 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Yes, Mruphy's is intentional, as is the impoperly used apostrophe in it's.

Reply #2696 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

okay. i thought that might be the case, but i googled it and didn't get anything, but i didn't look increadibly hard.

Reply #2697 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Welcome to the Empire mADDYman!

Thank you KzintiPatriarch, promise to keep as active as i can.

Reply #2698 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Quoting dystopic, reply 21
okay. i thought that might be the case, but i googled it and didn't get anything, but i didn't look increadibly hard.

 

That is because it is "Muphry's Law". Similarly, there is also "McKean's Law".

Muphry's Law states: "If you write anything criticizing editing or proofreading, there will be a fault of some kind in what you have written".

McKean's Law states: Any correction of the speech or writing of others will contain at least one grammatical, spelling, or typographical error.

Reply #2699 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

i think McKean's Law was actually what i was thinking of. or should i say, of what i was thinking.

to be fair, some of us actually are dyslexic. that's why i usually refrain from correcting others' speech, but in the case that actually started this (my part of it anyway), i just couldn't resist pointing out that the self-proclaimed grammar sherrif had in fact corrected spelling.

Reply #2700 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

i just couldn't resist pointing out that the self-proclaimed grammar sherrif had in fact corrected spelling.

This is debatable-it's possible (though not particularly likely) he really meant cued rather than queued, which would have actually been a grammatical error.

What would you categorize it as?  Linguistics?

Then there's the image I embedded-being some other kind of sheriff than grammar wouldn't have made it nearly as fitting, and we all know that's what I was attempting to tie in to.