Introducing the random questions forum

Submitted by Lothere on Sun, 09/27/2009 - 15:29.

I just posted a reply to Devin's random question thread, and it appeared on PAGE NINE. So I decided that we should maybe start doing this a little differently.

In the future, if you have a random question that you would have tacked onto the end of your thread (those of you who have one), I would like it if you posted a new forum topic in the Random Questions forum instead. This has a couple of advantages:

Since you can give a forum topic a title, it will help people who are skimming the forum to see what the question is about, if it's a character or topic that really interests them.
Likewise in the "What's new in the forum" sidebar on the main site, people will be able to see what the question is about and be more tempted to click over than by another "Random question that So-and-so has" post
It will be a lot easier to search the forum if there are more shorter topics with titles that refer to the actual topic of discussion, instead of a few long topics that talk about everyone and everything.
Most importantly (to me anyway) the pagination on the forum is rather wonky for multi-page topics: if a topic has multiple pages and you click on the link to the latest comment, you won't go straight to the latest comment. You will instead go to page 1, and THEN have to click on the highest page, and THEN you see the comment. I don't know about you guys but this drives me batty. (*imagine :batty: smiley here*)

This isn't like a "RULE" or anything... I don't care if topics get totally off-topic and have nothing to do with the original random question. We can talk about whatever, wherever. And I don't care if you post more than one question at a time, or even if the title is just "Another random question from Devin" if you can't think of a good title. I'm just afraid you guys felt like your random questions were not important enough to warrant their own threads -- but on the contrary, it's probably easier and more fun that way.

So have at it. And if you have any thoughts about why this is actually a bad idea (or if you don't know HOW to create a forum topic ) just say so.

*scurries back to writing Finn*

Random Questions

Finn! Will the next chapter

Submitted by Tiffany on Sun, 09/27/2009 - 16:39.

Finn!

Will the next chapter be up soon???

Finn! Will the next chapter

Submitted by Tiffany on Sun, 09/27/2009 - 16:39.

Finn!

Will the next chapter be up soon???

Perhaps tomorrow. It's

Submitted by Lothere on Sun, 09/27/2009 - 16:44.

Perhaps tomorrow. It's intense.

In other news, today I took the LAST PICTURES FOR 1085!!! I still can't believe it.

Awww, not until tomorrow?

Submitted by Van on Sun, 09/27/2009 - 16:59.

Awww, not until tomorrow? *sad puppy dog eyes*

*desperately needs a distraction from this damn essay*

EDIT: OMGLASTPICTURESFOR1085!!!

Yay tomorrow! And yay for

Submitted by Tiffany on Sun, 09/27/2009 - 17:09.

Yay tomorrow! And yay for pictures!

Yay for Vashmalania mania!

Finn!! And of course...

Submitted by Van on Sun, 09/27/2009 - 17:15.

Finn!!

And of course... Fwynn!!

That's a little

Submitted by Cassie on Sun, 09/27/2009 - 18:12.

That's a little mind-boggling. A celebratory of amazement!
That drives me batty about the comments in the forum threads, too. BATTY I TELL YOU. (Then again, it doesn't take much for me...)
And yay, Finn soon! Isn't it crazy how quickly he's become an OMG FAVORITE?!?!?
Oh Finnie, teenage heartthrob!
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I'm too lazy to find the

Submitted by PenelopetheFox on Fri, 05/20/2011 - 06:13.

I'm too lazy to find the "Random Questions That Penelope Has" thread so I think I'll just ask you this random question here (since you know all about traditional Irish/Gaelic name spellings). Is Cuan pronounced, "keen"?

Nope. To the best of my

Submitted by Lothere on Fri, 05/20/2011 - 06:22.

Nope. To the best of my knowledge Cuan would be pronounced "KOO-ahn." It's the diminutive of Cú (meaning dog). Likewise Cian is pronounced "KEE-ahn."

If there's a "Keen" in the house, it would probably be spelled Caín (with the accent on the i) or Caoin. But I don't know if that was a real name.

Thanks, Jenny! At first I

Submitted by PenelopetheFox on Fri, 05/20/2011 - 06:29.

Thanks, Jenny! At first I thought that it was pronounced "Sean", then I thought "keen"? Very confused about vowel sounds anytime "Diarmait" spells "Dermot" and "Ruairi" spells "Rory".

There always seem to be lots

Submitted by Lothere on Fri, 05/20/2011 - 06:44.

There always seem to be lots of extra vowels in Gaelic because the vowels next to a consonant change the way it's pronounced, sometimes dramatically. (Like the D in Diarmait being pronounced more like a J, because of the I that's there.) So sometimes you have to toss in an extra slender vowel (I or an E) to make the consonant do what you want, if you want the main vowel of the syllable to be a broad vowel (A, O, or U). Or vice versa.

In modern Gaelic, in fact, the vowels on either side of a consonant must match (in terms of being slender or broad). So you just keep tossing vowels in until everything is balanced and you get the sounds you want.

Thanks-- It was a

Submitted by PenelopetheFox on Fri, 05/20/2011 - 07:13.

Thanks-- It was a professional quandary.
I worry about mispronouncing names that I see in print before I hear them out loud.

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