Hey lets make an abbreviated code language for kids :D

Roblor · 2018-09-28 10:33:00

So for when we are wondering how to spend out lives productively and want to talk to the players who have lived longer, but we are so small we got max 4-5 letters to spell out at a time.
Life is short. We haven't got time to painfully wait to read only one word at a time - often at the expense of being able to type our own response.
Please post your abbreviation-suggestions below and I'll update them into this post so we can have an easily accessible lexicon for reference.

Eldr - Vocative expression to get the attention of greyhaired players
WTB - "We Talk in berryfield?"
YHM - "you have moment?"
WW - "Where water?"
WR - "Where Rabbits"
WM - "Where Milkweed?"
WP - "Where Pen?"
WS - "Where Soil?"
WI - "Where Iron?"
WB - "Where Berrys?"
Wk - "Where Kitchen?"
WN - "Where is the goddamn needle?"
TR - "TouR?"
BH - "Been here"
IkAJ - "I know all jobs"
IkMJ - "I know most jobs"
NN - "Not New"
TH - "Too Hot"
TC - "Too Cold"
HR - "the good temp spot is HeRe"
PT - "Perfect temperature"
TR - "Temp Run"

Last edited by Roblor (2018-09-29 08:22:28)

MultiLife · 2018-09-28 11:02:13

I wish I could memorize these quickly. Although most peeps will probably go like "wut" if I gurgle these out. Sometimes it's so frustrating to have the speech limitation, you have so much time to talk as a baby growing to a child..

Roblor · 2018-09-28 11:44:13

I can hardly remember these myself to be honest.
What redeems them, though, is that their meaning is easy to figure out, when there is some system behind it.
Example; all abbreviations that are starting with the letter "W", are then always to be used in order to know the location of something.
This makes sense because of all query-words (what, when, why, who, which..) "where" is the only one of these which should be useful to a player who has just recently spawned.

Now that the first letter has been decoded, the second can be attempted at, which in these examples are;
"i" in "WiW" and "WiSP"
and "r" in "WrrH".
The second letter is naturally a verb and in this context, but what if, for ease of understanding, we made it so that the second letter in every single abbreviations is a verb?

Thus;
WTiB - "We Talk in berryfield?"
YHM - "you have moment?" or maybe YHT - "you have time?" for simplicity

from;

Roblor wrote:

TTMiB - "Talk to me in berryfield?"
DYHM - "Do you have moment?"

The last letters of the abbreviations should be made so they are easily guessed at and not confused with others. It's still not perfect, but perfection is an abstract idea which doesn't even exist in this life. ... Or any of them.

Last edited by Roblor (2018-09-28 11:55:44)

boggers · 2018-09-28 14:56:32

I'm all for this, but they need to be shorter.

Mum starts an unneeded tour or showing you how to pick berries?
BH - Been Here before
NN - Not New

For when you haven't been there before:
WR - Where Rabbits?
WM - Where Milkweed?
WW - Where Water?
WS - Where Soil?
WP - Where Pen?
WI - Where Iron?
WB - Where Berrys?
WK - Where Kitchen?
TR - TouR?

When you're told to stay on a bad temp spot.
TH - Too Hot
TC - Too Cold
HR - the good temp spot is HeRe.

Anshin · 2018-09-28 15:14:46

I spell it out:
??
!!
LY
GJ
WA-TR
BE-RY
RA-BB-IT
SH-EP
JO-B?
HO-T
CO-LD
OL-D!
F
Q

pein · 2018-09-28 16:09:34

if you can spell 4 letters, you already scouted the village

wait 7 bars(6 on perfect medium enough but you will get hungry)
temp run from medium heat

you welcome

Catfive · 2018-09-28 16:24:45

I do like 'NN' for not new, potential timesaver right there. Problem is on single char speech it's not always noticeably 2 separate characters typed

Last edited by Catfive (2018-09-28 16:24:57)

Booklat1 · 2018-09-28 16:41:44

boggers wrote:

When you're told to stay on a bad temp spot.
TH - Too Hot
TC - Too Cold
HR - the good temp spot is HeRe.

what if instead of HR we used PT, as in perfect temp. Also works for TR (temp run)

Catfive · 2018-09-28 16:52:51

Booklat1 wrote:

boggers wrote:
When you're told to stay on a bad temp spot.
TH - Too Hot
TC - Too Cold
HR - the good temp spot is HeRe.
what if instead of HR we used PT, as in perfect temp. Also works for TR (temp run)

I think the hard part is going to be getting it understood by anyone who isn't already on the forums and thus already understanding of temp

Roblor · 2018-09-28 17:22:02

Catfive wrote:

Booklat1 wrote:
boggers wrote:
When you're told to stay on a bad temp spot.
TH - Too Hot
TC - Too Cold
HR - the good temp spot is HeRe.
what if instead of HR we used PT, as in perfect temp. Also works for TR (temp run)
I think the hard part is going to be getting it understood by anyone who isn't already on the forums and thus already understanding of temp

What if the Q can be used to signalize the possibility for initiating forum speech?
Like if someone just types you "Q" you can potentially just reply; "sure" or something, to show that you are open for abbreviated dialogues.

Getting the perfect temperature just right can be tricky if clothes are involved and finding the perfect can be a hassle under the time constraint of certain situations.
Sometimes there are also other factors the parenting player knows about and the freshly spawned baby player is ignorant about that makes bad tiles preferable over perfect temperate tiles.
Lets say for an example that a bear has been spotted and you want your baby to stand on an item-occupied tile rather than the perfect temperate one or maybe lets say that the parent player is focused on something which makes the perfect temperate tile less favorable over an other chosen one for the circumstances?

Last edited by Roblor (2018-09-28 17:38:11)

boggers · 2018-09-29 03:22:55

almost forgot

WN - Where is the goddamn Needle?

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