Shorah b’shemtee, which means "greetings to you all" or literally "peace to you (plural)".Chaemera
I've been debating whether or not to share a piece of rather ancient interwebs history regarding the origin of this phrase, and figured, eh, why not.
This phrase came about mostly because of Cyan Chat, the little Java-based chatroom Cyan set up. At the time, most folks knew that shorah was the D'ni greeting, but not how to say something like "hello, everyone". Some of the folks who initially cracked the D'ni language and put up a website wrote that "you (plural)" was -tee, so people started saying shorahtee.
Problem is, the -tee suffix is overloaded: it also denotes a plural noun, and the usage being described on the website was for conjugating verbs. So people were actually saying something like "peaces", which doesn't make much sense.
At the time, when I was first learning about this stuff, I cobbled together shorah b'shemtee based on what we knew about D'ni pronouns to try and fix the shorahtee problem. I used it one day in Cyan Chat, and it somehow stuck.
I know that's probably hard to believe, but it's actually true. Not bragging or anything! Just sharing. (I went/go by Yohshee in that community)Yosari
Well hot shit, I know a formative individual of nerd culture. :D
Shorah b’shemtee, which means "greetings to you all" or literally "peace to you (plural)".Chaemera
I've been debating whether or not to share a piece of rather ancient interwebs history regarding the origin of this phrase, and figured, eh, why not.
This phrase came about mostly because of Cyan Chat, the little Java-based chatroom Cyan set up. At the time, most folks knew that shorah was the D'ni greeting, but not how to say something like "hello, everyone". Some of the folks who initially cracked the D'ni language and put up a website wrote that "you (plural)" was -tee, so people started saying shorahtee.
Problem is, the -tee suffix is overloaded: it also denotes a plural noun, and the usage being described on the website was for conjugating verbs. So people were actually saying something like "peaces", which doesn't make much sense.
At the time, when I was first learning about this stuff, I cobbled together shorah b'shemtee based on what we knew about D'ni pronouns to try and fix the shorahtee problem. I used it one day in Cyan Chat, and it somehow stuck.
I know that's probably hard to believe, but it's actually true. Not bragging or anything! Just sharing. (I went/go by Yohshee in that community)Yosari
Cool! So you came up with the traditional D'ni greeting. It's like singlehandedly writing into being the customs of a whole socie– waaait.
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