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[Devilize]

"Will you accept parle Warden..." i musta cryed laughing for a few mins, wish he was in Pirates of the Carribean or better yet i wish i had the barbossa's responses to elizabeth..."I'm disinclined to acquiesce to your request. Means "no", "First, the safety of your witherfang was not part of our negotiations nor our
agreement so I must do nothing. And secondly, you must be a pirate for
the pirate's code to apply and you're not. And thirdly, the code is
more what you'd call "guidelines" than actual rules. perpare to die devil spawn!!!

please change that in a patch for me. ill play the game over agian as a mage this time if you do.

[KingSarevok]

Lol, never noticed that...

[On_Slaught]

Ya that was pretty funny.

[lllevokelll]

I laughed so hard I actually cried tears a little bit. This has to bump.

-evoke

[Mystranna Kelteel]

So pirates invented the word "parley"?

[TastyLaksa]

Not only that they invented everything else from velcro to sliced bread.

[Taleroth]

Mystranna Kelteel wrote...

So pirates invented the word "parley"?

[Vizkos]

If you hurt witherfang in your visit to her with the Warewolves, that would technically violate the terms of the parlay. In order to "uphold" your agreement, you'd have to leave, and then return in a hostile manner.



Thats "technically". I still wound up slaughtering them because Swiftrunner pissed me off.

[kevinwastaken]

parlez vous werewolf?

[Chuzza]

Actually "parley" originated in the Middle Ages, so it's not at all out of place.

[LaztRezort]

Chuzza wrote...

Actually "parley" originated in the Middle Ages, so it's not at all out of place.

Yeah, and they are also one of the traditional three choices to an encounter in RPGs:  Parley, Run, or Fight!

At least, I seem to recall some such from the Gold Box Series... man I'm old...

[Garagnoir]

"Beginning in the High Middle Ages with the expansion of monarchs, a parley, or "talk", was a meeting held between kings and their chief retainers. Parleys were part of the many changes in Europe, especially regarding governments."



... but it does sound pretty funny coming from a feral savage. I do think that they put it in there as a sort of easter eggy PotC quip, since it does seem so out of place.

[Mt.Seleya]

TastyLaksa wrote...

Not only that they invented everything else from velcro to sliced bread.

No way! I dunno about sliced bread, but the Vulcans invented velcro or did you not pay attention when T'Pol told her story?

[Hardin4188]

I also thought it was pretty funny when he said parley. It seemed overly fancy coming from a savage werewolf. I guess they really did regain their humanity.

[magor1988x]

This line caught me by surprise in my first play through. Lines like this dot the game throughout...



Shale: Have fun storming the castle. (Princess Bride)



These lines are all over the place...



The Superman lines from the Stone Prisoner DLC was a bit much... Too obvious imo. Anyhow Easter Eggs are awesome.

[Miss Trips]

Mystranna Kelteel wrote...

So pirates invented the word "parley"?

Pintel: "Damn to the depths whoever invented parley!"

Capt. Jack Saprrow: "That would be the French."

[Alex Savchovsky]

Mystranna Kelteel wrote...

So pirates invented the word "parley"?

That would be the French.

- Jack Sparrow

Aww, too late.

Modifié par Alex Savchovsky, 07 décembre 2009 - 08:14 .

[Ulyn]

Nah; parleys, like sallies, jousts and feats, are pretty standard both in contemporary florid English and any sort of fantasy/medieval setting. And, really, parley isn't even obsolete in normal speech, as either a noun or a verb.

The usage in Pirates of the Carribean was cute, and may actually be right in its setting; it uses something like "parlez" - [eɪ] - to refer to a parley, noun, or more broadly to the piratical institution of Parley, noun.

This could fit well into the 18th century mania for nautical/military slang from foreign languages, especially the Spanish and French. There's actually a whole series of military terms that have once-popular Spanish, French and Italian equivalents; we still say "torpedo" but used to say "grenado" for example. Ambush/ambuscade, fusilade, pistolero, pistola, etc. It's a long list.

At any rate; in the Pirates universe Jack Sparrow pronouncing parley as parl-[eɪ]/parlez, and identifies it, rightly or wrongly, as a Franco-piratical innovation. ("I'd like to get the bugger who invented Parley!" "I believe it was the French.")   POTC seemed to be a Tortuga-centric pirate universe, so, sensible enough.

In "proper" English usage parley only has that pronunciation when being used as a verb; as in, "Ulyn parleyed his nerdy philological interests into a high-paying job proofreading lore at Bioware." As a noun it ranges from par-lee - [i] or [iː] depending on your accent - to maybe a somewhat shorter e-sound.



In the dialogue I see on youtube, the werewolves use it as a verb, thus, "Are you willing to parl-[eɪ]," which is proper pirate-unrelated usage... if perhaps not as common as to use the noun-form, as in "willing to have/hold a parl-[i]." The choice of an intransitive verb form when that pronunciation is usually used for transitive verbs, as in the last paragraph, is a bit odd and may show the subtle influence of the Pirates films.  More clear would be any incorrect use of parl-[eɪ] for the noun form, which may be hiding in the dialogue tree somewhere.

But I strongly doubt it's a conscious easter egg.

[robertthebard]

Garagnoir wrote...

"Beginning in the High Middle Ages with the expansion of monarchs, a parley, or "talk", was a meeting held between kings and their chief retainers. Parleys were part of the many changes in Europe, especially regarding governments."

... but it does sound pretty funny coming from a feral savage. I do think that they put it in there as a sort of easter eggy PotC quip, since it does seem so out of place.

My money is on the first expansion to Baldur's Gate, after all it was a Pirate setting and had, wait for it, werewolves.  So yeah, if you've been around BioWare/Black Isle a long time, Easter Egg.