Joss makes me spell the stupidest things

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Qwa'ha Xahn
Arashmaharr
Kyrumption
M'Fashnik
And especially Glarghk Guhl Kashma'nik

I mean, really, Joss.

(This post brought to you by the Illyria fic.)

Comments

[diebirchen.livejournal.com]

M'Fashnik. Mmmmmmm, cookies!

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Yanno, I'm convinced there's a demon out there called M'Kookis, or some such, which is why Giles gave the response he did. And someday it's going to appear in one of my fics.

[diebirchen.livejournal.com]

I'll be waiting. Let me know ahead of time, and I'll alert the media!

[rahirah]

I like Arashmaharr. It flows! It has a ring to it!

(Kyrumption, OTOH, just sounds like something a cranky old coot would say. "Kyrumption, Mabel, where's my Sunday-go-to-meetin' teeth? Left 'em right here on the nightstand!")

[snickfic]

I think with Arashmaharr, it's the double-r that gets me. I mean, it's not like anyone but the scriptwriters (and the obsessed ficwriters) were ever going to know how most of things are spelled.

(You speak the truth. It doesn't help that I think the whole concept was silly and schmoopy and unnecessary...

*giggles at your old fellow and his Sunday-go-to-meetin' teeth*)

[next_to_normal]

Nuh-uh! The double-r is important. Because D'Hoffryn is secretly a pirate, so it's like, "Arrr, matey!"

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Yes. That's it exactly. And soon we're going to get an S8 one-off in which D'Hoffryn comes to steal Xander's eyepatch.

[next_to_normal]

The way S8 is going? I would not be surprised.

[quinara]

Agreed! After a few times I found Arashmaharr quite easy to spell too - it flows.

(I think Kyrumption fails because it's a clunky mish-mash of a pseudo-Greek beginning, Germanic middle and Latinate ending... It's a complete mess of a word, fake or no.)

[snickfic]

I agree about Kyrumption, although I hadn't thought about it in those terms. You're right, it's just ugly.

[bobthemole.livejournal.com]

So true. I always pictured Yosemite Sam saying, "What in Kyrumption have we got here?"

[deird1]

Oh so many weird words...

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Thank goodness for shooting scripts, eh?

[bobthemole.livejournal.com]

And don't forget Vahla Ha'nesh!


Interesting factoid: "Arash" means celestial throne in Arabic. Mahar doesn't mean anything, afaik. So hearing "Arashmaharr" always throws me for a loop because my brain is convinced the word is supposed to mean something relevant when it actually doesn't.

[snickfic]

Huh - very interesting!

I'm drawing a complete blank on Vahla Ha'nesh. Is that someone's proper name?

[bobthemole.livejournal.com]

That would be Illyria's home town seat of power, the one with the dusty army.

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Aha. You know, I've reread the scripts for almost everything about Illyria in the past week or so, but that apparently didn't stick. :)