The GrumpyCat wrote: ↑Tue Jun 20, 2023 8:42 am
I mean, I just don't really see what the big deal is here.
You're right that it comes in due to ooc reasons - but on the other hand I'd much rather that than people either have no easy way of saying something, or resort to ((OOC Tomorrow)) or even use Tells. This is a nice, quick, In Character way of saying something that is otherwise a little difficult to communicate.
With all respect to Eira 'a few days' isn't 'one ooc day' it's very vauge. A 'three day' or whatever is much more exact and useful, and easy enough to explain.
It is a shame in a way that the time change got rid of 'Tendays' that really was a FR unit of time, but so it goes!
As for why Threeday/triday/whatever? Well why not? Different places in the RL world use different time measurements, and differnt phrases. Americans say 'fall' britains say 'Autumn' We have the phrase 'Fortnight' - which is nice by why do we have a phrase for two weeks in the first place? Why do some civilisations count in base six?
FR has 'tenday' which roughly would equare to our ooc week. (The FR calender haveing months of thirty days, so three tendays per month.) But it can just as equelly and reasonally be broken down ten three days? Three is a very mystically significant number, and is as good a unit of measurement as any.
Threeday is fine imo. It's a cool ic way of communicating an ooc construct that frankly, is very useful to communicate and I personally find far less imersion breaking than ooc methods of communication.
Fall and autumn are both the same length.
Fortnight. Fourt. Fourteen nights. It's fourteen nights, because it's half a month (when people are regularly paid, in their world this is IC, not influenced by a second OOC world). Counting in 2 weeks (14-15 days) has been a thing since antiquity because you're halving a month (4 weeks-ish).
Generally our whole world uses the same units of measurement for time because it is based off either lunar or solar cycles.
There's 365 days in a year in this setting, 12 months a year with 30 days in each month. Weeks are made up of 10 days, thus called tendays. A triday isn't a week. It's just an additional only-Arelith thing, for OOC reasons.
I think the issue so many people have with it, is that it's entirely based off of out of character knowledge, it's meta, and it erodes the IC/OOC barrier, as was said before.
On the same topic, essentially, it's much more common now to see people refer to 'hostile intent' when one PC hostiles another, asking what class someone is, refering to 'zoo buffs', or just 'buffs' in general, and so forth.
Yes. Slang and language evolves and changes. Yes, we can accuse people of not wanting this to happen, as having "elitist tantrums" (lol). It all comes down to what quality of RP and writing you want to cultivate on your server.
No one is saying to punish the use of these, or ban it. Just that it used to be a good thing to strive to improve the quality of roleplay and writing. That was, infact, one of the main reasons people roleplay besides for the fun of it, to get better at it.
Not just to get better at writing, but to get better at being in character.
This is something we should all be trying to do. Improving our ability to be in character, and reducing our tendencies to step out of character.
