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Game Maker's Garage => Trash Talk => Topic started by: Silverwind on June 15, 2008, 08:31:58 AM
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For those of you who know what a vorpal blade is, it may interest you to know that it was in fact Lewis Carroll who invented the word. It originated from Jabberwocky, a poem in his book Alice Through The Looking Glass:
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought
And as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! and through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
"And has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!"
He chortled in his joy.
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
I've read the book, but didn't realize he'd invented the word. Now it's used in practically every large scale RPG around!
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LOL
My teacher was making us do an interpretation of that poem a week ago...
Mist
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Very interesting I never would of guessed. In fact I never would of thought about it.
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My teacher was making us do an interpretation of that poem a week ago...
Mist
lol! A near impossible task. Half of the words weren't even understood by Carroll! ;D
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I didn't understand 90% of it. Maybe I should get a dictionary next time I want to read something that doesn't make any sense.