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Re: Honorverse - Etymology in action
Post by drothgery   » Fri Aug 07, 2015 8:51 pm

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kenl511 wrote:I thought that was "Salamandered"
Nah, she wasn't back on active duty when the canonical incident occurred.
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Re: Honorverse - Etymology in action
Post by cthia   » Sat Aug 08, 2015 10:17 am

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drothgery wrote:
kenl511 wrote:I thought that was "Salamandered"
Nah, she wasn't back on active duty when the canonical incident occurred.

But I think ken was referring to the cavernous tech gap suffered the Solarians at the Second Battle of Manticore. Where they were salamandered and hamished -- cornered, corralled then pushed into a stream of near pike. (though technically it was a very small enemy, nanite, that did the pushing.)

hamish-ed: In naval warfare, to easily defeat, or be defeated, because of an unpropitious difference in opposing technology.
Etymology: Derived from a Manticoran Admiral, by the name of Hamish Alexander, stating that a particular offensive "was like pushing baby chicks into a stream of near pike."
Origins: Manticoran Admiralty.
Ex. "The entire Solarian fleet was hamished, the tech gap was cavernous."

synonyms: buttercupped, manticored.

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Re: Honorverse - Etymology in action
Post by Redmage2k   » Tue Aug 11, 2015 5:32 am

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Foraker-ed: A savage beating from unexpected angles.
Etymology: Oops.
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Re: Honorverse - Etymology in action
Post by JeffEngel   » Tue Aug 11, 2015 6:24 am

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Firebranding: the act of injudiciously identifying yourself in the context of distinctive misdeeds
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Re: Honorverse - Etymology in action
Post by Theemile   » Tue Aug 11, 2015 4:53 pm

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Here's one from the actual text:
The Manticore To come in, as if a hurricane, and destroy everything in your path.
Etymology Derived from witnesses of Manticore's reactions to SLN attacks.
Origins: Havenite Agents
Ex. "You won’t be able to piss into this wind, trust me. It’s got a name. We call it ‘the manticore.’ When it blew through my home system it flattened everything. Well, everything that had the initials OFS or the logos of any transtellar operating out of Mesa, anyway.”
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RFC said "refitting a Beowulfan SD to Manticoran standards would be just as difficult as refitting a standard SLN SD to those standards. In other words, it would be cheaper and faster to build new ships."
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Re: Honorverse - Etymology in action
Post by Bill Woods   » Wed Aug 12, 2015 11:11 am

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According to TV Tropes:
In the Honor Harrington series, the names "podnought" and "SD(P)" for missile pod-laying superdreadnoughts were originally Fan Nicknames used on David Weber's web forum. They got made official.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/M ... endedFanon
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Imagined conversation:
Admiral [noting yet another Manty tech surprise]:
XO, what's the budget for the ONI?
Vice Admiral: I don't recall exactly, sir. Several billion quatloos.
Admiral: ... What do you suppose they did with all that money?
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Re: Honorverse - Etymology in action
Post by SWM   » Wed Aug 12, 2015 2:24 pm

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Bill Woods wrote:According to TV Tropes:
In the Honor Harrington series, the names "podnought" and "SD(P)" for missile pod-laying superdreadnoughts were originally Fan Nicknames used on David Weber's web forum. They got made official.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/M ... endedFanon

I can confirm from memory that there was discussion on the forum about how to designate the "pod superdreadnoughts". I also remember that David Weber was involved in the discussion. But I don't recall whether it was David or a fan who first proposed SD(P). I do recall that after it was proposed, the discussion revolved around the fact that this was different from historical designation conventions, and whether this was acceptable.

I don't have any idea who first used the term podnought. I have a feeling that it was indeed introduced by a fan, but I can't be certain.

Both of these happened well before the most recent data loss on this forum. The oldest surviving messages in the forum date from summer 2010. The first appearance of "podnought" in the text is At All Costs, published November 2005, and the first appearance of SD(P) in the text is in Ashes of Victory (2000), when pod superdreadnoughts were introduced. Tvtropes does not give any specific citations. So unless David or Duckk can remember, or someone happens to have saved logs of the discussion back then, we are unlikely to verify whether they came from fans. :)
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Re: Honorverse - Etymology in action
Post by cthia   » Thu Aug 13, 2015 7:36 am

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Theemile wrote:Here's one from the actual text:
The Manticore To come in, as if a hurricane, and destroy everything in your path.
Etymology Derived from witnesses of Manticore's reactions to SLN attacks.
Origins: Havenite Agents
Ex. "You won’t be able to piss into this wind, trust me. It’s got a name. We call it ‘the manticore.’ When it blew through my home system it flattened everything. Well, everything that had the initials OFS or the logos of any transtellar operating out of Mesa, anyway.”

I love this. It has me giggling up a storm. Can anyone finger the exact reference? I'd like to reread it.

Son, your mother says I have to hang you. Personally I don't think this is a capital offense. But if I don't hang you, she's gonna hang me and frankly, I'm not the one in trouble. —cthia's father. Incident in ? Axiom of Common Sense
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Re: Honorverse - Etymology in action
Post by cthia   » Thu Aug 13, 2015 8:02 am

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Redmage2k wrote:Foraker-ed: A savage beating from unexpected angles.
Etymology: Oops.

:lol:


marchant: adj. the often suicidal attitude and pronouncement of disrespect to a woman in public, usually while on the planet Grayson. Always followed by the most dire of circumstances.
Etymology: Derived from a deplorable act of blatant public disrespect to a well-loved woman and savior of the planet Grayson.
ORIGIN: Grayson.
Ex. He barely survived that public address in the park. He's in a coma. What was he thinking inciting that already unruly mob to a raging justice? His marchant tendencies will be the death of him yet.

Son, your mother says I have to hang you. Personally I don't think this is a capital offense. But if I don't hang you, she's gonna hang me and frankly, I'm not the one in trouble. —cthia's father. Incident in ? Axiom of Common Sense
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Re: Honorverse - Etymology in action
Post by Weird Harold   » Thu Aug 13, 2015 8:16 am

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cthia wrote:I love this. It has me giggling up a storm. Can anyone finger the exact reference? I'd like to reread it.


Cauldron of Ghosts, Chapter 39. (somewhere around page 217)
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Answers! I got lots of answers!

(Now if I could just find the right questions.)
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