Subject: Well, does that count?
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Posted on: 2018-10-09 16:58:00 UTC
A deliberate nickname is one thing - I don't think we have a mini-Balrog named Leggy, for instance. But getting the name wrong because you misheard or misread it is a classic way to create a mini. Heck, my own Thanduril came into being because I wrote his name from memory and got it wrong.
hS
The Ghostbusters Master System game misspelled Gozer as Gorza. Can you think of other canonical minis?
Hehe, I was into Ghostbusters for a while (the original, though the reboot wasn't yet a thing when I started), and my favorite character was Gozer, because up until recently I've always gravitated towards the villain of any medium. This thread brought back a couple memories of that.
-Twistey
In a journal in Riven, Gehn misspelled "wahrk" as "whark".
Don't know what an Agatha Christie mini would be, but a copy of Death Comes as the End spelled "Imhotep" (the father's name) as "Imhtep" once.
That’s about the only thing I could think of that connects almost all of the books. There aren’t any monsters or anything, so I don’t know what else it would be.
Only more of a really big Grey Cell. You can buy some really adorable plushie cells, I'm sure there's a cute neuron out there.
hS
I suppose it makes sense for a mini of something that’s already little to be big. Maybe Average-Sized Grey Cells? Or would that mean average by grey cell standards - still little?
Not really sure it applies to the non-Poirot books, though. Alternatively, we could compromise by combining our ideas... Dead grey cells???
Inarguably, all of Christie's heroes make extensive use of their brains. Arguably, ze little grey cells are also the prime antagonist: specifically, when they're /not/ doing their job and putting the pieces together.
hS
at the Agatha Christie OFU. Their schemes will never last ten seconds without the grey cells figuring them out and thwarting them in the most ironic way possible.
...then again, that’s more or less what happens at every OFU.
And the most cunning of her detectives and the most cunning of her criminals would put their heads together to find novel ways of thwarting them. Of course, most of the incidents would have to be of the noodle variety.
They just disappear for about ten days. =]
... of people giving me amazing ideas for OFUs that I know full well I would never, ever be able to write.
So you can have this one. ^_^
hS
My canonical knowledge is nowhere near good enough: I haven’t read all the books and those that I have I got from the library.
This obscure chapter of Space Marines appeared in the Warhammer 40,000 supplement "Chapter Approved 2001." They are probably a typo of "Marines Errant," a chapter mentioned elsewhere in the same publication.
... they're obviously a typo for the Marines Errator, which consists of the survivors of every Space Marine Chapter which has ever been misspelled. ^_^
(Though actually Errantor is apparently a valid Latin word: Wiktionary calls it the third-person plural future passive imperative of errō, which means 'I wander'. So... what is that, 'let it be that they will wander'? Or 'let them wander!'. Is that the same linguistic formulation as 'let them eat cake'?)
hS
I had a junior high unit study of The Lord of the Rings that tried to refer to Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli as "The Threee Hunters". For some reason it stuck with me all this time.
My copy of The Lord of the Rings also misspells the name of some elf or other at one point, but I don't remember where or who, unfortunately. I missed it on my last rereading.
Have you had time to look at my Permission doc yet? I emailed it last week. Sorry if I’m being too impatient: I’m new to being beta-read so I don’t know how long it usually takes.
typo (correct spelling), source
Laner (Lanier), from Greg Bear's Eon
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A bunch of mini-Hunters out of the Halo universe:
Librae 23 (23 Librae), from Tobias Buckell's The Cole Protocol
Adrienne (Adriana), from The Cole Protocol
Jagger (Jaggers), from Eric Nylund's The Fall of Reach
USNC (UNSC), appearing eleven times so far that I've encountered, including on a box in Halo 3. Not going to list all the novels and short stories.
Kilo (Kiko), from Tobias Buckell's "Dirt"
Cuidad de Arias (Ciudad de Arias), from Fred Van Lente's "Blunt Instruments"
McCraw (MacCraw), from Jeff VanderMeer and Tessa Kum's "The Mona Lisa"
MAB5 (MA5B), from Eric Nylund's Ghosts of Onyx
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Rassselas (Rasselas), from Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre
Iluvatar (Ilúvatar), from Tolkien's The Silmarillion
Ocs (Orcs), from The Silm again
Montage (Montag), from Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
Cheno (Chen), from Douglas Preston's Blasphemy
Kublia Khan (Kublai Khan), from James Rollins's The Judas Strain
Asaph Saywer (Asaph Sawyer), from Lovecraft's "Into the Vault"
Ourkranos (Oukranos), from Lovecraft's The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
Adbul Alhazred (Abdul Alhazred), from Lovecraft's The Thing on the Doorstep (Like, they got the hard part of his name right?!)
Gengis Khan (Genghis Khan), from Chris Stewart's The Fourth War (Those poor Khans!)
Thundercap Station (Thunderclap Station), from Stephen King's The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower
Jello-O (Jell-O), from Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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How about a mess of mini-Atogs out of Magic: the Gathering?
Mach (Macha), from Mark Shepherd's "Gathering the Taradomnu"
For's River (Fors River), from the above
horned octipus (horned octopus), from Billie Sue Mosiman's "The Theft of Bayende, Heart and Soul"
Teriel (Telier), from Morgan Llywelyn's "Dryad's Kiss"
Vashino (Viashino), from Mark Sumner's The Prodigal Sorcerer
Aligaurius (Aligarius), from same as above
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Iliipoi (Iliiopoi), from Jack London's "The Bones of Kahekili"
Hams (Hans), from Jules Verne's A Journey to the Center of the Earth
Luisades (Lusiades), from Verne's In Search of the Castaways
Captain's King's (Captain King's), from Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
Nkosi Sikelel' i Africa (Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrica), from Bryce Courtenay's The Power of One
All Quite on the Western Front (All Quiet on the Western Front) I BET YOU WILL NEVER GUESS WHERE THIS WAS FROM
And finally, the kamikaze memorial inside the U.S.S. Missouri misspelled real person Petty Officer Second Class Setsuo Ishino's first name as "Setuo."
For the record, I do have notations for all of these; I just didn't have time to type it all out.
—doctorlit spends his free time in valuable and productive ways
Suicides (Suicide\Suicide's), from Tungsten Monk's copy of Stephen Pressfield's Gates of Fire. That's the dubious and probably-not-a-good-idea-to-repeat way in which we got Agent Suicide. {= ) Sadly, I have no idea what printing or what page.
I'm sure I've seen characters' names (and other words) misspelled in the Horus Heresy books, too, but I haven't bothered to keep track so far. I reckon mass-produced franchise books are ripe for this sort of thing.
~Neshomeh
on my shelf for years. I'm looking forward to finding Suicide's origin point!
—It's such a shame that doctorlit has no control over what order he reads books, and that the books themselves determine that for him. Oh well!
Dammit, Muphry's Law got me! {X D
~Neshomeh
Snap was spying on me and he was taking a video tape of me!
The one misspelling My Immortal got right. :P
The (in)famous Bakshi LotR movie referred to Saruman as Aruman about half the time. Apparently they were concerned people would confuse the two S-villains... but that doesn't explain why they only bothered to change half of the instances.
Also, to anyone who watched Doctor Who night before last: does 'Tim Shaw' count as a canon mini? >:)
hS
Probably no more than the Percy Jackson demigods calling Enceladas "Enchiladas". :P
A deliberate nickname is one thing - I don't think we have a mini-Balrog named Leggy, for instance. But getting the name wrong because you misheard or misread it is a classic way to create a mini. Heck, my own Thanduril came into being because I wrote his name from memory and got it wrong.
hS