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It's not disclorping, Captain! Too much thription!

Which of these words is the odd one out?

disclorping - dweomercraft - illarptacture - naightentance - phantrite - snoiggal - thription

If you know the answer, then you are outed as a player of 1st edition Dungeons and Dragons, from the days before it was translated from the original Gygaxian into English.

This article from Samizdata.net reveals what the rest of the words are about. Sadly the reality is rather more mundane that the wonderful sounds of the words.

I have to say I can imagine almost any of these words appearing in a Jack Vance novel, and they'd probably be passible as Treknobabble.

Posted by TimHall at April 03, 2003 08:45 PM | TrackBack
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