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| Giant Snake |
Posted - 19 Mar 2024 : 02:33:23
Hey guys please let me know if you like or totally dislike some of this druid specific bywords that they might use…
One man conclave: negative pejorative used by druids to describe vigilante or unilaterally judging druids.
Oak/dry brain/slow as sap: the converse of a quick to judge druid. A druid who lacks a sense of urgency or of an overly long time presence. (Mostly - but not at all exclusively - used by rash druids)
Sewers/Cess pits/blights/stink stacks/wounds/scabs: cities.
Crickets: Druids who speak too much in the secret tongue around non-druids, particularly around wizards.
Gone rotten/corrupted to the roots: Traitorous druids.
Willy: a druid who imbibes perhaps too much. Alternatively, a druid who possibly spends too much time in wild shape.
Acorns and goodberries: General colloquialism to indicate austerity/poverty/fastidiousness.
Scribe: negative pejorative for wizards.
A book don’t hang the moon: Dismissive phrase for wizards or any sort of magic user who sees druid craft as archaic or quaint.
Strewer: Irresponsible hunter.
Sharmer: Irresponsible woodsman/logger.
It’s goodberry night again: My wife left me.
Risker rasker: A metal or crafted weapon.
Covering up an ant hole: unnecessary destructiveness in general (not exclusively in regards to nature)
Wooden fishhook: a person or a practice that is unpragmatic, overly rigid.
Fly over the storm: be courageous/to have grit.
Deer shit: Ultimately harmless/non threatening. Not always used as a negative although it can be if it refers to a boaster or a braggart.
Couldn’t find an orc outhouse: a really bad tracker or a hopeless ranger.
Mountain lion: a messy eater or generally untidy person.
Gigglebiscuit: a pandering or potentially harmful fey.
Your stones are poorly positioned: You don’t have your act together at all.
Giant dwarf: a sour or surly person.
Snail: an arrogant or foppish person, particularly someone from a city.
Otter/butterfly: someone it is easy to like.
Please add more if you have any!! |
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| Giant Snake |
Posted - 26 Apr 2024 : 04:30:34
Because it’s organic. |
| TBeholder |
Posted - 25 Apr 2024 : 04:31:25
quote:
Originally posted by Giant Snake
Slangy words are the things what enter your normal vernacular and not a secret language itself.
If they allowed their secret language to leak outside bit by bit, it would not stay secret for very long. So, contamination is unlikely.
Generally, a slang lives because it serves a purpose or three:
1. Optimize the language for specifics of usage by the given group.
2. Make communications more opaque to the outsiders.
3. Impress the same outsiders.
An entire specialized secret language is clearly better at the first two functions, and the third is not an issue in this case. So what's the niche of such slang could be? |
| Azar |
Posted - 16 Apr 2024 : 10:05:21
quote:
Originally posted by Delnyn
quote:
Originally posted by Azar
"A mind as a butterfly."
Would this phrase refer to what we would call ADHD?
Either one who frequently changes their mind (derisive) or one who is slow to reach a decision yet becomes fully committed once a decision has been reached (approving). |
| Delnyn |
Posted - 16 Apr 2024 : 08:53:18
quote:
Originally posted by Azar
"A mind as a butterfly."
Would this phrase refer to what we would call ADHD? |
| Azar |
Posted - 16 Apr 2024 : 03:13:52
"A mind as a butterfly." |
| Delnyn |
Posted - 16 Apr 2024 : 03:10:08
How about "Spray the skunk"? The phrase would depict someone picking a fight with a clearly superior opponent. Perhaps clear to everyone except the person picking the fight. |
| Azar |
Posted - 15 Apr 2024 : 23:36:57
quote:
Originally posted by Giant Snake
I envision them as performing roles in society rather than just being a whole society unto themselves.
That makes more sense with the 2e version: Charisma 15 was a requirement of the class. It is believable that such Druids would be found in all sorts of non-Druidic hierarchies when even the "acolytes" are capable of ingratiating themselves. |
| Giant Snake |
Posted - 14 Apr 2024 : 22:24:39
Most definitely. Druids historically are more like a caste and I envision them as performing roles in society rather than just being a whole society unto themselves. |
| Delnyn |
Posted - 14 Apr 2024 : 15:05:16
Aa I understand, these are phrases in Common that druids use, not Druidic itself. If this is the case, I could see rangers and some barbarians also use these expressions. |
| Azar |
Posted - 03 Apr 2024 : 23:42:34
quote:
Originally posted by TBeholder
The secret tongue is secret.
Sunite philosophy? |
| Giant Snake |
Posted - 03 Apr 2024 : 19:00:39
I didn’t say anything because I thought the answer was obvious. Slangy words are the things what enter your normal vernacular and not a secret language itself. |
| DoveArrow |
Posted - 03 Apr 2024 : 17:01:42
quote:
Originally posted by TBeholder
This misses the entire point. The secret tongue is secret.
Then how do you know about it, hmmm?  |
| TBeholder |
Posted - 30 Mar 2024 : 12:32:00
This misses the entire point. The secret tongue is secret. |
| Azar |
Posted - 30 Mar 2024 : 10:36:03
"In the falcon's talons." or "Falcon's talons." = Being caught up in unexpected trouble/an unexpected problem (an expression formed by observations of the birds-of-prey ambushing their quarry before the latter can react quickly enough). |
| Giant Snake |
Posted - 28 Mar 2024 : 13:55:59
As far as rodents go, a house mouse is irl slang for a little guy. Chipmunks are smol but they aren’t like mice. They’re like mice on crack cocaine! They get through anything when you camp. Little raiders.
But by the by I think druids probably see rat nests and so forth to be a blight of overcrowding. |
| Azar |
Posted - 28 Mar 2024 : 07:57:47
I wonder how Druids would perceive "city mouse"/"town mouse". |
