Time Change - What to call Tomorrow?

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Time Change - What to call Tomorrow?

Post by Xerah » Wed Jan 13, 2021 5:27 pm

What does everyone think is the best thing to call RL tomorrow when in game? We can't use tenday anymore.

Three-day?

Thriceday? (Bat Country sponsored)

On the triumvirate?

On the ternary?

Something else.
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Re: Time Change - What to call Tomorrow?

Post by Party in the forest at midnight » Wed Jan 13, 2021 5:28 pm

I was planning on saying "A few days ago" or "In a few days"


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Re: Time Change - What to call Tomorrow?

Post by Kessarin » Wed Jan 13, 2021 5:44 pm

Party in the forest at midnight wrote:
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I was planning on saying "A few days ago" or "In a few days"
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Re: Time Change - What to call Tomorrow?

Post by Amnesy » Wed Jan 13, 2021 5:57 pm

I'll go with Third'ay XD

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Re: Time Change - What to call Tomorrow?

Post by Ork » Wed Jan 13, 2021 6:05 pm

Tenday. Threeday. Makes sense.

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Re: Time Change - What to call Tomorrow?

Post by Kalopsia » Wed Jan 13, 2021 6:18 pm

"In three days" seems like a valid option now :D

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Re: Time Change - What to call Tomorrow?

Post by Bunnysmack » Wed Jan 13, 2021 6:20 pm

"A trilogy from now" :lol:

(In all seriousness, please do not start saying "trilogy" instead of "tomorrow" or "yesterday")
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Re: Time Change - What to call Tomorrow?

Post by Baron Saturday » Wed Jan 13, 2021 6:24 pm

I'm inclined towards thricedays, but suspect it'll end up being threeday for simplicity's sake. Maybe triday?
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Re: Time Change - What to call Tomorrow?

Post by triaddraykin » Wed Jan 13, 2021 6:55 pm

I've already coined Triday. Totally official.
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Re: Time Change - What to call Tomorrow?

Post by Taerl » Wed Jan 13, 2021 7:46 pm

as Houndaer said in our discord........ UD players use cycles instead of days so he says.......will it now be called a TriCycle

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Re: Time Change - What to call Tomorrow?

Post by neverwinternightly » Wed Jan 13, 2021 7:57 pm

I've got my handlebars firmly grasped on the triday tricycle.

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Re: Time Change - What to call Tomorrow?

Post by Archnon » Wed Jan 13, 2021 8:37 pm

Svirfneblin, according to proper lore, will firmly reject your change in time as time is irrelevant. We will continue to use, "sometime" to refer to all points in time indiscriminately as opposed to specifying day or cycle or anything that acknowledges the passage of time.

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Re: Time Change - What to call Tomorrow?

Post by Glowing Mushroom » Wed Jan 13, 2021 9:04 pm

Triple Day...Tripdip.

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Re: Time Change - What to call Tomorrow?

Post by Good Character » Wed Jan 13, 2021 9:05 pm

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Re: Time Change - What to call Tomorrow?

Post by Gonagul » Wed Jan 13, 2021 9:28 pm

Tenday has such a ring to it though.

edit: I vote to keep it as a colloquial

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Re: Time Change - What to call Tomorrow?

Post by chris a gogo » Wed Jan 13, 2021 11:48 pm

Tenday is because the months are divided into 3 Tendays not because the server happens to have 10 days per RL day.
It's not an Arelith specific term.

In fact if not for the "bloody romans" we would still be using tendays and have thirteen months in the year.

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Re: Time Change - What to call Tomorrow?

Post by Dalenger » Thu Jan 14, 2021 1:02 am

chris a gogo wrote:
Wed Jan 13, 2021 11:48 pm
Tenday is because the months are divided into 3 Tendays not because the server happens to have 10 days per RL day.
It's not an Arelith specific term.

In fact if not for the "bloody romans" we would still be using tendays and have thirteen months in the year.
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Re: Time Change - What to call Tomorrow?

Post by Baron Saturday » Thu Jan 14, 2021 1:04 am

chris a gogo wrote:
Wed Jan 13, 2021 11:48 pm
Tenday is because the months are divided into 3 Tendays not because the server happens to have 10 days per RL day.
It's not an Arelith specific term.

In fact if not for the "bloody romans" we would still be using tendays and have thirteen months in the year.
I mean, that's technically true, but it really got widely used because it's such a convenient way of saying "in X RL days/X RL days ago" in IG terms. With a "tenday" no longer corresponding to a RL day, it would be handy to have a new term to take it's place.
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Re: Time Change - What to call Tomorrow?

Post by The GrumpyCat » Thu Jan 14, 2021 1:07 am

How about threemorrow?

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Re: Time Change - What to call Tomorrow?

Post by Kuma » Thu Jan 14, 2021 1:15 am

Taerl wrote:
Wed Jan 13, 2021 7:46 pm
as Houndaer said in our discord........ UD players use cycles instead of days so he says.......will it now be called a TriCycle
this is absolutely delightful

as for coining a word, is it needed?

"We shall meet once more three days hence", "Let's revisit this in a few days", "The masquerade is in about three days" will probably end up working fine.

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Re: Time Change - What to call Tomorrow?

Post by chris a gogo » Thu Jan 14, 2021 1:55 am

Unread post by Dalenger » 14 Jan 2021 01:02

chris a gogo wrote: ↑13 Jan 2021 23:48
Tenday is because the months are divided into 3 Tendays not because the server happens to have 10 days per RL day.
It's not an Arelith specific term.

In fact if not for the "bloody romans" we would still be using tendays and have thirteen months in the year.
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Re: Time Change - What to call Tomorrow?

Post by Dreams » Thu Jan 14, 2021 6:24 am

I think Party had the best idea.

‘In a few days’, ‘a few days’, is the easiest way to refer to this new thing naturally and without coming up with new words that don’t fit.

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Re: Time Change - What to call Tomorrow?

Post by Ninjimmy » Thu Jan 14, 2021 8:42 am

In a few days is probably the best Meta shorthand for tomorrow, I'd say use Party's too.

Alternatively, just grab their face, stare into their eyes and say
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Re: Time Change - What to call Tomorrow?

Post by Lexx » Thu Jan 14, 2021 10:42 am

Just use whatever term the individual might prefer, honestly. Barely anyone used the term Tencycle/Tenday before in game already. So I see more the same happening with this.

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