I'm a baka

Can some tell me the bonus's for 20 in the stats? I've somehow lost my manual...(not the damn thing was at all useful, until I tried to go back and look for this and can't find it....agh!) I know the immune to poison and immune to will spells (gee...how useful is that considering no ones casts will spells but you), but I can't remember the others.

 

T-A has a downloadable .doc/.pdf manual under downloads ....

 

20 int means 10% bonus to all throws
doies everyone on the forum know the meaning of baka?

 

i think its 'stupid' in japanese. correct me if i'm wrong.

 

Baka translates to "idiot".

Bonuses (according to the manual, some may be bugged):

Strength - Double damage bonus
Dexterity - Speed is 25 +1 for every point over 20
Constitution - Poison immunity
Beauty - Reaction is 100% +10% for every point over 20
Intelligence - +10% to success rate of every Skill
Perception - Sense invisible
Willpower - Immune to any spell resisted by Willpower
Charisma - 100% loyalty from followers.

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In here, it means, "might". Like, it might happen..., it might broke... A sign of uncertainty.

 

Baja (pronounced "baka") is Spanish for small.

I hope I have enriched your lives, and that my comment was both interesting and informative.

 

Baka- Fool, Idiot. Stupid

 

Already mentioned.

 

so Al The safe gouard of the wild is here to clear it all up!

 

Do I want to get the 26 shot rifle? :sad:

 

Howdy folks!

The japanese word "baka" consists of two different kanji (letters adopted from chinese)

These two letters mean "horse" and "deer"

But when put together... you get idiot!

There you have it 8)

 

AND they think english is a bad language!

horse + deer = idiot

you got me on that one!

Parmanian

 

The Seattle anime fans put an anime con together. Because they had seen japanise anime fans refer to themselves as anime baka, they called it Bakacon. Then they wondered why it was so hard to line up guests from Japan. :lol: They changed the name.

 

Since this thread has been oh so HIDEOUSLY GRAVEDUG, I'll add my tuppence¹.

The ancient Celtic runic language had some quirks too. They had an alphabet where you could string runes together to make words. In addition, each letter also represented a meaning. This meant that you could also make words that had a string of meanings. However, certain strings of runes were also objects.

Now, think just how confusing runic languages could get. No wonder they were hard to translate!

For example, Uus is U. Uus also means change. Uus Uus is Buffalo, which is really bizarre considering that buffalo, to my knowledge, were never present in Celtic England. :lol:

Come to think of it there is another strange word I remember hearing about in Japanese. It's two small, fluffy animals, although I can't remember which ones. Put them together and you get an incredibly rude word for the female genitals.




¹ I REFUSE to go American (hmm... or Australian for that matter)

 

What is tuppence? So where are you from Ferret?

 

Isn't it just a 'funny' way to write two-pence...? Oh, and isn't that just another way to write opinion?

 

Buffalo were present in Europe, but never in America. What we have here are bison.

It follows the common British pronounciation. There was also a mystery series set in england in the '30s? who's protaginists were "Tommy & Tuppence". I assume Ferret was not refering to her.

 

Sorry for barging in...

Anyway, I have read Tommy and Tuppence books by Agatha Christie. Some of them are very good. I'm an Agatha Christie fan.

All spellings are British. Sometimes clues are people using American words when supposed to use English words. You should read them. But maybe you should start with Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple books. Poirots(pronounced Poiro) are Sherlock Holmes like and Marples are about old pussies solving mysteries.

How do you put a number at the corner of a word?

How do you use custom smileys?

And in the story, people often mistake her name as Two-pence. :lol:

 

It's not just two pence. We have a two pence piece here and the old name for it is a tuppeny bit, or tuppence.

If you have a single penny and a single tuppence then it's threpence, which obviously, is short for three pence. It was never a single coin though.

The old English coin system was really very, very bizarre and never made sense at all, because it was an amalgamation of metric and imperial numerical progression, but also had some random multipliers thrown in for good measure. They had some great names for the coins though.

The small superscript numbers are obtained through the use of ascii codes. Just hold down the [ALT] key and type a three or four digit number.

¹ is [ALT] 1275
² is [ALT] 1277
³ is [ALT] 1276

... and yes, I know they are out of sequence, but don't blame me. I'm not the one who made the code. :lol:

â„¢ is [ALT] 0153
© is [ALT] 0169
® is [ALT] 0174

Many codes are duplicated so there may well be shorter or easier to remember codes, but those are the ones I've found so far.