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post Mar 2 2005, 04:43 AM
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in french class today i found the word un ordinateur which means computer and atomatiacally thought of the ordinaters in morrowind. do you think the devs riped of of the french (amoung other languages)?


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post Mar 2 2005, 09:12 AM
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QUOTE(Soulseeker3.0)
in french class today i found the word un ordinateur which means computer and atomatiacally thought of the ordinaters in morrowind. do you think the devs riped of of the french (amoung other languages)?

How can you rip off a language? :shocked: But no, I don't think so. Their name for those annoying temple guards probably came from some latin word that's the root of the french "ordinateur".


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post Mar 2 2005, 09:26 AM
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I think Ordinator is a literal tear from Coordinator; to give order to.
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post Mar 2 2005, 10:26 AM
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QUOTE(Soulseeker3.0)
do you think the devs riped of of the french (amoung other languages)?


I am 100% sure that they did. Though perhaps not in this case.
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post Mar 2 2005, 11:42 AM
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Well if not french, then certainly scandinavian languages kvleft.gif but I wouldn`t call it a rippoff - more like adaptation (although I always thought that completely diferent worlds must have unique, non-earthly names, places, characters... and here, in TES, we have Romans, French, Vikings... meh, all we need now are japanese Samurai monkeyman-warriors from Akavir. (hmm... Akavir ?)


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post Mar 2 2005, 09:03 PM
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It's always been pretty clear to me that "Ordinator" has something to do with "order". To give orders, to maintain order, etc. I didn't learn it was French(ish) word until I read The Difference Engine.


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post Mar 3 2005, 06:53 PM
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The PR word for it is "inspiration"...


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post Nov 13 2005, 07:10 AM
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Interesting.... this reminds me when I saw the ingredient "guar gum" on something.. I forget what though...


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post Nov 13 2005, 05:50 PM
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QUOTE(General Edor Crespin @ Mar 2 2005, 03:03 PM)
It's always been pretty clear to me that "Ordinator" has something to do with "order". To give orders, to maintain order, etc. I didn't learn it was French(ish) word until I read The Difference Engine.
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Yeah. Ordinators are the enforcers of temple law. I REALLY don't think the Devs wanted them to sound like a item that doesn't exist in Tamtiel (computer).


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post Nov 13 2005, 06:22 PM
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indeed the frecnh word ordinateur comes from the fact that computers are used to organize data.


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post Nov 13 2005, 06:59 PM
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It comes from the word: "To keep order": "to Ordinate"

Has nothing to with computers, I'm afraid. In fact "Ordinateur" also goes with the idea of order. A computer can be seen as an ordering machine, which is possibly why the french use that word.


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post Nov 16 2005, 08:52 AM
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Hey, when I need to think of a good name for something and I just can't, I have a mental block, I look at foreign words, and adapt whatever looks good. I'm sure that they could have some something like that.

Of course, it may simply be a more literal definition of what an Ordinator is. They protect the temple, causing order. They pursecute heretics, (Disident priests) in other words, they ordinate religion.


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post Nov 17 2005, 12:57 AM
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Yeah, I have a pretty expanded vocabulary so when I saw the word Ordinators it was not alien to me, not something someone put too uch thought into. At most they looked up Guardian in the thesaurus, but it's likely they just came up with it because that's what they were, ordinators, it wasn't an original job title.


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