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uchuflowerzoneXanönfê! Today I present the first in a series of posts detailing events from the history of the Sajem Tan tribe, the sort of stories which, if I tried to tell them all on the aforelinked wiki, it would get crowded with disorganized anecdotes that would probably need to be repeated many times. Without further ado, let's begin to discuss the topic of today's post: the Encircling Walu and Enclosing Gnard bots!
This is, admittedly, an easy subject, which is quite good for a first post. It's also worth mentioning that this topic is more relevant to the tribe's Discord server than to the tribal culture as a whole. But, as inside-jokes are frequently to be encountered, especially in our tribe, this is a topic worthy of discussion. (That, and the fact that we get asked a lot why our bots are named such silly things.)
It all started on 2 Divöm 37 (11 September 2017), when Wind posted a screenshot from Thesaurus.net of "common misspellings" of the word "triangle". The picture is reproduced below for your viewing pleasure.
As you can see, the list of misspellings is quite outrageous; many of them are clearly misspellings of different words.
On 2 Ţefnöm 20, Fern, Fog, and Wind were revisiting that conversation, and went looking for more misspellings on Thesaurus.net; unfortunately, the site was defunct. So Fog searched through the Wayback Machine and discovered a "Word of the Day" section, listing synonyms for the phrase "big with child" (which means pregnant). The section, in all its glory, appeared thusly (emphasis mine):
Fern then changed the name of MEE6 on the server to "Encircling Walu". Later that day, Fog tracked down the origin of "encircling walu" (ostensibly a misspelling of "encircling wall") and its link to pregnancy in Abram Smythe Palmer's 1882 book Folk-etymology: A Dictionary of Verbal Corruptions Or Words Perverted in Form Or Meaning, by False Derivation Or Mistaken Analogy:
Some time later, we needed a new bot with which to create a Pear Wiggler command, and so DynoBot was added—and quickly renamed to "Enclosing Gnard".
That has been today's installment of this series; next time I will be discussing the provenance and naming of the Wasphive. So long! Ximücfê!
This is, admittedly, an easy subject, which is quite good for a first post. It's also worth mentioning that this topic is more relevant to the tribe's Discord server than to the tribal culture as a whole. But, as inside-jokes are frequently to be encountered, especially in our tribe, this is a topic worthy of discussion. (That, and the fact that we get asked a lot why our bots are named such silly things.)
It all started on 2 Divöm 37 (11 September 2017), when Wind posted a screenshot from Thesaurus.net of "common misspellings" of the word "triangle". The picture is reproduced below for your viewing pleasure.
As you can see, the list of misspellings is quite outrageous; many of them are clearly misspellings of different words.
On 2 Ţefnöm 20, Fern, Fog, and Wind were revisiting that conversation, and went looking for more misspellings on Thesaurus.net; unfortunately, the site was defunct. So Fog searched through the Wayback Machine and discovered a "Word of the Day" section, listing synonyms for the phrase "big with child" (which means pregnant). The section, in all its glory, appeared thusly (emphasis mine):
Fern then changed the name of MEE6 on the server to "Encircling Walu". Later that day, Fog tracked down the origin of "encircling walu" (ostensibly a misspelling of "encircling wall") and its link to pregnancy in Abram Smythe Palmer's 1882 book Folk-etymology: A Dictionary of Verbal Corruptions Or Words Perverted in Form Or Meaning, by False Derivation Or Mistaken Analogy:
Some time later, we needed a new bot with which to create a Pear Wiggler command, and so DynoBot was added—and quickly renamed to "Enclosing Gnard".
That has been today's installment of this series; next time I will be discussing the provenance and naming of the Wasphive. So long! Ximücfê!
