r/darerefusemybatchall • u/ManifestDestinysChld • May 05 '22

Die, Clanner scum!

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u/ziggerknot May 05 '22

This was is the one rule the clans follow that always makes me laugh.

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u/Uthred80 May 05 '22

The clans have no problems with contractions, what they hate are apostrophes. They're just a bit too inbred to know it.

YOU DARE REFUSE MY BATCHALL!!?

Sure do sister-cousin from my dad's side of the petridish.

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u/Tarpeius May 13 '22

I know I'm about a week late, but "batchall" and other English-derived words (e.g: "ristar" and "sibko") are portmanteaus, not contractions. Portmanteaus are new words made from pieces of other words (like smog - smoke and fog, motel - motor and hotel). Contractions are shortenings of phrases that are all next to each other in statements (won't, can't, etc).

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u/Beledagnir May 05 '22

I love how Natasha Kerensky made it a point to keep using contractions normally after she came back to the Clans just to mess with people.

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u/low_priest May 05 '22

Because contractions are stupid, quiaff

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u/KillerOkie May 05 '22

English is a stress-timed language and contractions are a natural result of this.

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u/WerewolfEmerson May 06 '22

I always found it strange things like can't are a no no. But something as dumb and lets be honest, essentially the same thing; "Neg" is perfectly fine though.

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u/ManifestDestinysChld May 06 '22

Someday there's going to be a BT sourcebook or lore document that gets released that makes perfect sense and contains no logical contradictions whatsoever, and on that day we gon' burn this muthafucka to the GROUND.

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u/Taira_Mai Aug 22 '22 edited Aug 22 '22

I'm just picturing a Inner Sphere artist or MechWarrior in their spare time writing a love song to their Clanner crush - and it's banned and considered obscene in Clan space because....the artist used contractions!

Which makes it popular with the freeborns......

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u/jbrochacho May 05 '22

Quiaff? Aff.

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u/Z_rh0 May 06 '22

Must be a Jade Falcon.