Hello friends!
I need your help and your ears, since my uncultured American ears are failing me. I am having a spot of trouble comprehending exactly what Mod Joe said in the last Road to Menaphos video after about 1:45. The link to the youtube video is https://youtu.be/rvBggr5XVfA?t=1m42s of you can just listen to Mod William's post on the future update subforum
Anyhow, Mod Joe talks about the new slayer dungeon in Sophanem and then mentions the price of admission: your cat can't save your soul this time! You will need feathers of - well, I can't tell. Did Mod Joe say feathers of Mah, the elder god who allegedly "corrupted" Amascut? Mah did not have feathers though, she looked like something composed of obsidian to me.
Ma'at would make more sense, since Kharidian lore borrows mainly from Old Egyptian culture (with a bit of Arabic, Turkic, and Berber added for flavor). Ma'at was the system of justice and harmony in Classical and Aincient Egypt, as well as the goddess of justice. And it is not like Jagex hasn't inserted the names of the Egyptian gods into the game before. Apep, Heru, and Aten have all made it into the game. However, my American ears insist that Mod Joe did not pronounce the feminine suffix t at the end of Ma'at.
It could be his accent though. But one other thing English speakers may not pronounce or even hear is the sound indicated by the apostrophe in the middle of the name Ma'at unless you speak Cockney. It is not the quite the glottal stop that folks with a Cockney accent may make in the middle of a word like butter , but it is close.
Complicating things, Ma'at was pronounced Mú'`a in the New Kingdom period, which does have a glottal stop and is missing the feminine t .
HALP Humility is self-destruction, pride is the destruction of all else. And He said, "
I need your help and your ears, since my uncultured American ears are failing me. I am having a spot of trouble comprehending exactly what Mod Joe said in the last Road to Menaphos video after about 1:45. The link to the youtube video is https://youtu.be/rvBggr5XVfA?t=1m42s of you can just listen to Mod William's post on the future update subforum
Anyhow, Mod Joe talks about the new slayer dungeon in Sophanem and then mentions the price of admission: your cat can't save your soul this time! You will need feathers of - well, I can't tell. Did Mod Joe say feathers of Mah, the elder god who allegedly "corrupted" Amascut? Mah did not have feathers though, she looked like something composed of obsidian to me.
Ma'at would make more sense, since Kharidian lore borrows mainly from Old Egyptian culture (with a bit of Arabic, Turkic, and Berber added for flavor). Ma'at was the system of justice and harmony in Classical and Aincient Egypt, as well as the goddess of justice. And it is not like Jagex hasn't inserted the names of the Egyptian gods into the game before. Apep, Heru, and Aten have all made it into the game. However, my American ears insist that Mod Joe did not pronounce the feminine suffix t at the end of Ma'at.
It could be his accent though. But one other thing English speakers may not pronounce or even hear is the sound indicated by the apostrophe in the middle of the name Ma'at unless you speak Cockney. It is not the quite the glottal stop that folks with a Cockney accent may make in the middle of a word like butter , but it is close.
Complicating things, Ma'at was pronounced Mú'`a in the New Kingdom period, which does have a glottal stop and is missing the feminine t .
HALP Humility is self-destruction, pride is the destruction of all else. And He said, "
Let there be light.
"
And then there were
none
.
14-May-2017 23:30:38 - Last edited on 14-May-2017 23:33:32 by Penny Drakis
