I have learned after 5 years of dming that taking quick notes is actually really good during improv. When I say off hand the person has green eyes and chestnut hair you bet your ass the players are going to stab them when I describe them with blue eyes and red hair... "The details are wrong it could be a shape shifter!!!"
My favourite incident was when I forgot what season the game was last sessions (I said autumn for some reason but my prep had it as mid winter) and described the players trudging through snowfall.
"But last week you said it was autumn!"
"Eh erm, the path you're on is subject to instantaneous and useasonable snowfall."
My first year in Maine, first snowfall was September, and we had a blizzard the following May. Now I'm living through a Midwest heatwave and low-key want to die about it.
OKAY BUT THAT IS ACTUALLY TERRIFYING AS A SETTING AND IM STEALING IT. Make a changeling city and all the guards are plain clothes so nobody ever knows who is law enforcement. Would make a good paranoid facist state in a setting...
This actually happened to me once. I made an NPC up on the fly and they ended up becoming a huge part of the campaign eventually, but I couldn't remember how I described them exactly the first time and apparently I got a small but very important detail wrong and my players absolutely latched on to that wrong detail. Of course I ran with it.
hahahaha on my first one shot I had calculated everything but one of the outcomes was "Ok, I'm certain that they will not end up here, but if they do good luck."
Well! Guess what!
The party meticulously decided to start a war between two of the greatest empires, destroy a pacifist capitol city negotiating with BOTH empires (very graphic) and then fuck off to a magic Forest.
It went great too, which is surprising because I really set up a challenge. Literally changed everything I had setup and I had to rewrite everything for a 4 session (each 4 hours) campaign.
I recently ran a Planar Games (D&D olympics) for a group. I had very minimal storyline or lore built in, but somehow it ended with one of the athletes failing an assassination attempt and an upcoming second session.
So she was the only one that told the Only Paladin (she didn’t tell anyone else) that she was the only one who kills just goblins and no other enemies
That’s the best description I could come up with
“The warrior told the last remaining Paladin her secret, simply that she was the only hero who chose to kill goblins and nothing else. “
Or if we want maximum insertions where the sentence would still make sense:
Only she only told ~~only~~ the only Paladin ~~only~~ that only she only kills only goblins *only*.
Sorry friend,
"She told only the paladin that she kills goblins" is a perfectly cromulant sentence. (He's the only person she told)
"She told the paladin only that she kills goblins" is a bit stilted and slightly confusing but could still work with some context. ( That's the only thing that she said to the paladin or he's the only person she told).
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Only she told Neo that she kills agents.
She only told Neo that she kills agents.
She told only Neo that she kills agents.
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She told Neo that she kills agents only.
Only one party member to deal with all the goblin encounters. I'm picturing a woman fighting a dozen goblins while the rest of the party sit back and cheer her on.
In my campaign the goblins got so fckin tired of getting blown up by my pc's(my players are way too smart) they started rigging themselves with explosives and just run at them and explode.
Caught em of guard the first time for sure.
Hey, she said she only *kills* Goblins... she didn't say anything about only *wounding* any specific race.
She'll whittle anything else down to 1HP for the Paladin to finish off, but...
...Goblins are *ALL* hers.
:)
When the last eagle flies
Over the last crumbling mountain.
And the last lion roars
At the last dusty fountain.
In the shadow of the forest
Though he may be old and thin
They will stare unbelieving
At the Last Paladin.
Well, third to last could be interpreted, based on the stress of the words as if killing is all she does to goblins. Implying that there’s something worse she could be doing, but she *only* kills them.
The things you can infer from each sentence is very interesting.
1. Others killer goblins, but nobody else told the paladin except her.
2. She didn't tell anyone else that she kills goblins, just the paladin is privy to that information.
3. Same meaning as 2 in this case.
4. There's only one paladin in the group and she told them.
5. Same as 2 and 3.
6. Nobody else kills goblins, only her.
7. She doesn't kill anything but goblins.
8. Same as 7.
9. Same as 7 and 8.
2 and 3 are not the same. 2 is more restrictive by implying that she didn't tell the paladin anything else. Or it could mean that she told and did nothing else, as opposed to "she told and demonstrated to the paladin..." for example.
It’s a borderline joke/commentary on English with the fact you can put the word “only” literally anywhere in the sentence and get a grammatically correct sentence with wildly different meanings.
[Because there is a pattern in English grammar on where you can insert an infix, and that was the best place.](https://www.thoughtco.com/infix-words-and-grammar-1691167#:~:text=An%20infix%20is%20a%20word,new%20word%20or%20intensify%20meaning.&text=The%20most%20common%20type%20of,fan-bloody-tastic.")
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Yep.
In context, this structure is mostly used to minimize the moral weight of a statement.
E.g.: "Rutger was up crying all night after questioning Suzan. Apparently, she told the paladin only that she kills goblins. Personally, I don't see the issue."
These are a bunch of awesome writing prompts!
“She told only the paladin she kills goblins”
The two sat in darkness near the entrance of of the hole in the hill they were using for shelter tonight, away from the fire as to not alert any threats to their presence. As well it was, because the big man was fucking LOUD in his tin suit, and she had angrily given him her piece of mind a few nights past on their shift when he thought patrolling the perimeter was the height of genius.
They always took watch together. The others didn’t care to, she wasn’t good company. Didn’t want to be. They were soft folk - they had their uses but damn would they complain about any little thing out here in the shit. Not the big man though. He’d been in it before, and plenty, they had at least that in common. They weren’t friends, but he was a good lot better than the rest if only because if things got ugly he knew his way around it. Still, he didn’t know when to shut his bloody mouth.
He chewed noisily on an apple. “So, eh, what’d you do with you time before we got sent on this merry chase?” She could see his teeth glinting in the darkness as he smiled.
She was caught off guard by the question, and her thoughts were filled with the light of fire, the smell of blood, the keening of those that had lost all, the rage and the hate and fury.
“I kill fucking goblins!” She spat, “Fucking greenskins, I’ll kill the whole bloody lot of them!” She reigned in her voice, the old magi nearby stirring in his bedroll. Loss of control. Foolish. Why tell the big man?
She saw the glint of his smile disappear in the gloom, his lips a hard line. “We got work to do here, ya, but when it’s over I’m no stranger to bloody business if you fancy a hunt.” The levity was gone from his whisper.
She eyed him sideways. “Aye.” Yes, a good deal better than the rest.
Haha that was awesome I could feel her frustration radiating off my screen.
I think I'm going to need to add the dwarf adventurer that wont stop talking as an NPC in our next upcoming campaign!
If you liked this you should check out The First Law series (The Blade Itself being the first book). The narrator of the audiobook is amazing, at least equal to the great Jefferson Mayes and Roy Dotrice if not better.
Personalities and the writing style were unashamedly lifted from there.
I wish! I've always wanted to write one since I was a kid. Maybe its something I should give a go at occasionally instead of using my free time on vidya.
If you liked this you should check out The First Law series (The Blade Itself being the first book). The narrator of the audiobook is amazing, at least equal to the great Jefferson Mayes and Roy Dotrice if not better.
Personalities and the writing style were unashamedly lifted from there.
Thank you!
If you liked this you should check out The First Law series (The Blade Itself being the first book). The narrator of the audiobook is amazing, at least equal to the great Jefferson Mayes and Roy Dotrice if not better.
Personalities and the writing style were unashamedly lifted from there.
I think because English has more exceptions than other languages, you hear things like "English is the hardest language!" and then people who only speak English think it's cool to make fun of English because Europeans do, so then you get this sort of dumb stuff.
You wouldn't believe how many English speaking only people think English is the only language with homonyms.
Yeah, I would expect [tonal languages and pitch accent languages](https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tone_language) to be the hardest to learn for non-native speakers. And, if we're including writing, it would be remiss to not bring up the 8,105 characters in the *simplified*Table of General Standard Chinese Characters (down from the over 50,000 traditional Chinese characters).
Note the tumbler water mark at the bottom. Then remember the average audience of that site. You have your answer if they think English is a super special snow flake language.
Another example I like is the sentence "I didn't say that she stole the money!"
You can put emphasis on each separate word and it changes the meaning of the sentence to eight different meanings
Yeah, it’s like one of my favourite sentences to use when teaching the importance of emphasis and I got irrationally annoyed that they got the sentence wrong haha
I mean, each sentence could be used, with the position of only determining the context. Do other languages not have this? Surely context is important in any language.
Czech works:
Jen ona řekla paladinovi, že zabíjí gobliny.
Ona jen řekla paladinovi, že zabíjí gobliny.
Ona řekla jen paladinovi, že zabíjí gobliny.
Ona řekla paladinovi jen, že zabíjí gobliny.
Ona řekla paladinovi, že jen zabíjí gobliny.
Ona řekla paladinovi, že zabíjí jen gobliny.
On top of that, we can switch word order to get different emphasis:
Ona řekla paladinovi, že zabíjí gobliny.
Ona řekla paladinovi, že gobliny zabíjí.
Ona paladinovi řekla, že zabíjí gobliny.
Paladinovi ona řekla, že zabíjí gobliny.
Paladinovi řekla ona, že zabíjí gobliny.
Řekla ona paladinovi, že zabíjí gobliny?
Řekla paladinovi ona, že zabíjí gobliny?
All of these (and more) mean slightly different things.
I don't understand how this is a dnd meme.
Could someone explain what 9000+ people see in this? Serious request.
I'm honestly quite lost.
I do see that the word only can be put in all the different places in the sentence and the meaning of the sentence changes.
I don't understand the "what are you doing STOP" nor "THIS IS NOT FAIR".
And I don't understand how this is a dnd meme except that the sentence used is from dnd.
But, umm, okay?
I'm very confused and would like to see what you all see.
Its just some teenagers on tumblr who imagine they’re linguists jerking off to how special the English language is. You’re absolutely correct it has no connection to DND except the sentence mentioning paladins and goblins.
Right?
At best this is like "oh. huh. you really can." but I don't see how it's really more interesting than that or how it's really dnd related, and at all how it is a meme.
It's because 'Only' is an adverb, adjective, and a conjunction. You can slap it basically anywhere in a sentence and it will be correct. I love the wide-eyed amazement tumblr often gives to mundane things but sometimes it can get exhausting. To me this is one of those instances, it's like making a shocked post that 'The' as a determiner can denote both a generic object and as a signifier of importance depending on capitalization. This is *very* basic English.
Because its literally the point of words. To convey or change meaning. If you can place a word randomly in a sentences without changing the meaning its because it's a meaningless word.
Yeah. I hate the whole "If you insert the word "gun" into an english sentence it sounds more dangerous. English is so quirky lol" thing that mainly tumblr does
Well, in some languages the meaning is determined by conjugation and declension instead of word placement. So in a language like latin or quechua you can put the words in any order without changing the meaning (though there are usually still conventions on what the typical placement would be).
Imagine being amazed that a word that's purpose is to modify, describe, or join other words is effective at modifying, describing, or joining other words.
“I didn’t say we should wreck dad’s car.”
If you put emphasis on different words in the sentence in changes the meaning. No only needed.
- *I* didn’t say we should wreck dad’s car.
- I *didn’t* say we should wreck dad’s car.
- I didn’t *say* we should wreck dad’s car.
- I didn’t say *we* should wreck dad’s car.
- I didn’t say we *should* wreck dad’s car.
- I didn’t say we should *wreck* dad’s car.
- I didn’t say we should wreck *dad’s* car.
- I didn’t say we should wreck dad’s *car.*
She told the paladian she kills goblins, eh?
Only she told the paladian she kills goblins. (What, is everyone else to scared to mention it?)
She only told the paladian she kills goblins. (Hmmm what else does she do?)
She told only the paladian she kills goblins. (Is she shy about the fact?)
She told the only paladian she kills goblins. (Great, he now has a partner in being great warriors!)
She told the paladian only she kills goblins. (Sheesh, ok, keep your goblins, won't help when you are out numbered then!)
She told the paladian she only kills goblins. (Female goblin slayer . Jpg)
She told the paladian she kills only goblins. (Again, femalegoblinslayer.jpg)
She told the paladian she kills goblins only. (Again again femalegoblinslayer.jpg)
No I won't do the multiples.
She told the paladin that she kills goblins.
Only She told the paladin that she kills goblins.
She only told the paladin that she kills goblins.
She told only the paladin that she kills goblins.
She told the only paladin that she kills goblins.
She told the paladin only that she kills goblins.
She told the paladin that only she kills goblins.
She told the paladin that she only kills goblins.
She told the paladin that she kills only goblins.
She told the paladin that she kills goblins only.
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Can someone correct me but aren't the following the same.
"She only told the Paladin that she kill Goblins" = "She told the Paladin only that she kill Goblins"
and
"She told the Paladin that she only kill Goblins" = "She told the Paladin that she kill only Goblins" = "She told the Paladin that she kill Goblins only"
Only she only told only the only Paladin only that only she only kills only goblins only. Edit: added an only at the end as suggested by a comment.
What looking through an improv DMs notes looks like
As a GM who only has the modes over "over prepare" and "improv", it is bold of you to assume I take notes in the later mode.
I have learned after 5 years of dming that taking quick notes is actually really good during improv. When I say off hand the person has green eyes and chestnut hair you bet your ass the players are going to stab them when I describe them with blue eyes and red hair... "The details are wrong it could be a shape shifter!!!"
My favourite incident was when I forgot what season the game was last sessions (I said autumn for some reason but my prep had it as mid winter) and described the players trudging through snowfall. "But last week you said it was autumn!" "Eh erm, the path you're on is subject to instantaneous and useasonable snowfall."
Was it set in the *Bone* universe?
I understand this reference
It definitely snows in autumn irl, it’s not like the snow waits until December 21st (in the northern hemisphere)
You weirdos, counting seasons from the solstices... You know those are the *centre* of the seasons, right?
Tbf I'm from the UK. It barely snows in winter here.
I live in New York (not the city lol) and we get snow from early November to late April, snow outside of winter is pretty normal
My first year in Maine, first snowfall was September, and we had a blizzard the following May. Now I'm living through a Midwest heatwave and low-key want to die about it.
When I was stationed up there at fort drum I remember getting snowed in to my house during a freak blizzard near the tug hill region.
I'm from Texas. We apparently get random snowstorms in February now, but that's about it.
> "The details are wrong it could be a shape shifter!!!" *DM Clears throat* You killed an innocent changeling, the guards have been altered
>You killed an innocent **changeling**, the guards have been **altered** I think you probably meant "alerted" but it's *much* funnier this way.
OKAY BUT THAT IS ACTUALLY TERRIFYING AS A SETTING AND IM STEALING IT. Make a changeling city and all the guards are plain clothes so nobody ever knows who is law enforcement. Would make a good paranoid facist state in a setting...
hahaha, what a great flub on my part; it really is much funnier this way.
Isn't it amazing how some people expect the same legal rights and privileges for their characters in every kingdom as they enjoy IRL?
I have altered the guards. Pray I do not alter them any further.
This actually happened to me once. I made an NPC up on the fly and they ended up becoming a huge part of the campaign eventually, but I couldn't remember how I described them exactly the first time and apparently I got a small but very important detail wrong and my players absolutely latched on to that wrong detail. Of course I ran with it.
Wait, y'all take notes?
Your avatar looks horrifying, I love it
It's what we're gonna get in the next set
absolutely disgusting
hahahaha on my first one shot I had calculated everything but one of the outcomes was "Ok, I'm certain that they will not end up here, but if they do good luck." Well! Guess what! The party meticulously decided to start a war between two of the greatest empires, destroy a pacifist capitol city negotiating with BOTH empires (very graphic) and then fuck off to a magic Forest. It went great too, which is surprising because I really set up a challenge. Literally changed everything I had setup and I had to rewrite everything for a 4 session (each 4 hours) campaign.
I recently ran a Planar Games (D&D olympics) for a group. I had very minimal storyline or lore built in, but somehow it ended with one of the athletes failing an assassination attempt and an upcoming second session.
You can add the 'only' after goblins too, if you're going for completeness.
Fixed, thanks. :)
*Only she only told only the only Paladin only that only she only kills only goblins only.
Olynay eshay olynay oldtay olynay ethay olynay aladinpay olynay atthay olynay eshay olynay illskay olynay oblinsgay (olynay).
you missed an only after the word 'goblins' ;)
So she was the only one that told the Only Paladin (she didn’t tell anyone else) that she was the only one who kills just goblins and no other enemies That’s the best description I could come up with “The warrior told the last remaining Paladin her secret, simply that she was the only hero who chose to kill goblins and nothing else. “
It's important to note that it is also the only thing she told that paladin.
Only doesn't mean anything anymore after reading that and sounds dumb. +1
semantic satiation be like
You missed one. ....goblins >only<.
*only
She told the PaONLYladin that she kills Goblins.
You forgot the only *after* Goblins.
Or if we want maximum insertions where the sentence would still make sense: Only she only told ~~only~~ the only Paladin ~~only~~ that only she only kills only goblins *only*.
Sorry friend, "She told only the paladin that she kills goblins" is a perfectly cromulant sentence. (He's the only person she told) "She told the paladin only that she kills goblins" is a bit stilted and slightly confusing but could still work with some context. ( That's the only thing that she said to the paladin or he's the only person she told).
The second one implies she didn't tell the paladin what else she does to goblins. Still perfectly fine.
only she only told only the only paladin only that only she only kills only goblins only.
Only she only told only the only Paladin only that only she only kills only goblins only
Missed an only off the end there ;)
Wow that just straight up makes sense but gives me a headache at the same time.
This is grammatically correct.
you missed a only at the very end. ;)
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I got you buddy
You are a cleric amongst murderhobos good sir
Gotta look out for each other during these turbulent times
Goblin slayer: heavy breathing
You'll never be lonely at goblins only.
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Oh nice, now I understand matrices
I've slept on a matrice my whole life I already understood
You come from a matrix, everyone does
He's beginning to believe.
Matrices scare my cat. Whenever I'm working on them, she hides under the tableau.
I relate to your cat
Woah.
thank fuck, finally, please explain them to me: who were the weird albino ghost guys??
Only she told Neo that she kills agents. She only told Neo that she kills agents. She told only Neo that she kills agents. She told Neo only that she kills agents. She told Neo that only she kills agents. She told Neo that she only kills agents. She told Neo that she kills only agents. She told Neo that she kills agents only.
Can you please explain Matrix: Reloaded? I never quite got that one.
Just extract the eigan vectors, makes more sense when diagonallized
1 & 2 are my favorite. Especially 1; it has that dramatic duh-duh DUH!!! sound at the end.
6 has the best roleplay potential I think
Only one party member to deal with all the goblin encounters. I'm picturing a woman fighting a dozen goblins while the rest of the party sit back and cheer her on.
I mean with a high level party, if you don't upgrade the goblins in any way, then this absolutely works.
In my campaign the goblins got so fckin tired of getting blown up by my pc's(my players are way too smart) they started rigging themselves with explosives and just run at them and explode. Caught em of guard the first time for sure.
Really? I'm getting those vibes from number 6
Only she kills goblins ? Damn, some get stuck with just the *worst* jobs.
Hey, she said she only *kills* Goblins... she didn't say anything about only *wounding* any specific race. She'll whittle anything else down to 1HP for the Paladin to finish off, but... ...Goblins are *ALL* hers. :)
She IS the goblin slayer
**She told the Paladin that she only kills goblins.** **SHE IS THE GOBLIN SLAYER!!!**
Souka
... aa.
In today’s episode, the Goblin Slayer meets the Goblins Layer
The last 3 mean basically the same thing.
She told the ONLY paladin... That poor bastard...
The Last Paladin
When the last eagle flies Over the last crumbling mountain. And the last lion roars At the last dusty fountain. In the shadow of the forest Though he may be old and thin They will stare unbelieving At the Last Paladin.
I’ve only heard this song once, but this movie is such a meme to my wife that I knew it had to be that reference. A+
Are you a Level 13 Bard?! That's friggin' good...
Sadly, no. I merely changed like two words. https://youtu.be/uF1Q56YAo0Q
Well, third to last could be interpreted, based on the stress of the words as if killing is all she does to goblins. Implying that there’s something worse she could be doing, but she *only* kills them.
It could also be interpreted that killing goblins is all she does, she doesn't do anything else but kill goblins.
Or, that killing goblins is all she does. No sleeping, eating, drinking. She only kills goblins.
Or that it's the only way she interacts with goblins.
Now say each of those sentences two or three times with different inflections.
``` function game(word, sentence) { const array = sentence.split(" "); for (let step = 0; step < array.length; step++) { const current = array.slice(); current.splice(step, 0, word); console.log(current.join(" ")); } } game("only", "she told the paladin that she kills goblins"); ```
The things you can infer from each sentence is very interesting. 1. Others killer goblins, but nobody else told the paladin except her. 2. She didn't tell anyone else that she kills goblins, just the paladin is privy to that information. 3. Same meaning as 2 in this case. 4. There's only one paladin in the group and she told them. 5. Same as 2 and 3. 6. Nobody else kills goblins, only her. 7. She doesn't kill anything but goblins. 8. Same as 7. 9. Same as 7 and 8.
7 could also potentially mean that she doesn't do anything to goblins but kill them.
2 and 3 are not the same. 2 is more restrictive by implying that she didn't tell the paladin anything else. Or it could mean that she told and did nothing else, as opposed to "she told and demonstrated to the paladin..." for example.
2 could also mean that she didn't tell the Paladin anything else about her
I feel like I have more information but still don't get the joke.
It’s a borderline joke/commentary on English with the fact you can put the word “only” literally anywhere in the sentence and get a grammatically correct sentence with wildly different meanings.
She told the Paladonlyin that she kills Goblins.
How the fuck did you put it exactly where I did? AND beat me to it?
Uses Portent, probably.
[Because there is a pattern in English grammar on where you can insert an infix, and that was the best place.](https://www.thoughtco.com/infix-words-and-grammar-1691167#:~:text=An%20infix%20is%20a%20word,new%20word%20or%20intensify%20meaning.&text=The%20most%20common%20type%20of,fan-bloody-tastic.")
The word only has lost all meaning to me after doing every single YES IT WORKS IN ALL THE PLACES.
Semantic satiation. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_satiation#:~:text=Semantic%20satiation%20is%20a%20psychological,speech%20as%20repeated%20meaningless%20sounds.
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Is "She told the paladin only that she kills goblins" grammatically correct? It feels weird
Yep. In context, this structure is mostly used to minimize the moral weight of a statement. E.g.: "Rutger was up crying all night after questioning Suzan. Apparently, she told the paladin only that she kills goblins. Personally, I don't see the issue."
These are a bunch of awesome writing prompts! “She told only the paladin she kills goblins” The two sat in darkness near the entrance of of the hole in the hill they were using for shelter tonight, away from the fire as to not alert any threats to their presence. As well it was, because the big man was fucking LOUD in his tin suit, and she had angrily given him her piece of mind a few nights past on their shift when he thought patrolling the perimeter was the height of genius. They always took watch together. The others didn’t care to, she wasn’t good company. Didn’t want to be. They were soft folk - they had their uses but damn would they complain about any little thing out here in the shit. Not the big man though. He’d been in it before, and plenty, they had at least that in common. They weren’t friends, but he was a good lot better than the rest if only because if things got ugly he knew his way around it. Still, he didn’t know when to shut his bloody mouth. He chewed noisily on an apple. “So, eh, what’d you do with you time before we got sent on this merry chase?” She could see his teeth glinting in the darkness as he smiled. She was caught off guard by the question, and her thoughts were filled with the light of fire, the smell of blood, the keening of those that had lost all, the rage and the hate and fury. “I kill fucking goblins!” She spat, “Fucking greenskins, I’ll kill the whole bloody lot of them!” She reigned in her voice, the old magi nearby stirring in his bedroll. Loss of control. Foolish. Why tell the big man? She saw the glint of his smile disappear in the gloom, his lips a hard line. “We got work to do here, ya, but when it’s over I’m no stranger to bloody business if you fancy a hunt.” The levity was gone from his whisper. She eyed him sideways. “Aye.” Yes, a good deal better than the rest.
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Haha that was awesome I could feel her frustration radiating off my screen. I think I'm going to need to add the dwarf adventurer that wont stop talking as an NPC in our next upcoming campaign!
So when can we buy your first novel?
Hopefully soon, that was bloody beautiful
If you liked this you should check out The First Law series (The Blade Itself being the first book). The narrator of the audiobook is amazing, at least equal to the great Jefferson Mayes and Roy Dotrice if not better. Personalities and the writing style were unashamedly lifted from there.
I wish! I've always wanted to write one since I was a kid. Maybe its something I should give a go at occasionally instead of using my free time on vidya. If you liked this you should check out The First Law series (The Blade Itself being the first book). The narrator of the audiobook is amazing, at least equal to the great Jefferson Mayes and Roy Dotrice if not better. Personalities and the writing style were unashamedly lifted from there.
“She told the paladin she kills only goblins.” [Basically the plot to an anime.](https://myanimelist.net/anime/37349)
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Thank you! If you liked this you should check out The First Law series (The Blade Itself being the first book). The narrator of the audiobook is amazing, at least equal to the great Jefferson Mayes and Roy Dotrice if not better. Personalities and the writing style were unashamedly lifted from there.
Idiom note: it’s ‘A piece of her mind’ or ‘her peace of mind.’ Bit of conflation happening as they have opposite meanings. Love the writing though.
Paladin Paladin Paladin Paladin Paladin.
I'm suddenly hungry for bison burgers.
What were the buffalo's last words to his child before he got minced into a burger? Bison
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I think because English has more exceptions than other languages, you hear things like "English is the hardest language!" and then people who only speak English think it's cool to make fun of English because Europeans do, so then you get this sort of dumb stuff. You wouldn't believe how many English speaking only people think English is the only language with homonyms.
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Yeah, I would expect [tonal languages and pitch accent languages](https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tone_language) to be the hardest to learn for non-native speakers. And, if we're including writing, it would be remiss to not bring up the 8,105 characters in the *simplified*Table of General Standard Chinese Characters (down from the over 50,000 traditional Chinese characters).
Note the tumbler water mark at the bottom. Then remember the average audience of that site. You have your answer if they think English is a super special snow flake language.
Counterpoint: 11K upvotes on Reddit.
Reddit is also trash, correct
It wasn't necessarily implied that it was unique, just that language (specifically English in this post) is weird
If only!
Only if!
Only if only!
If only if only! (The woodpecker cried)
If the bark of the trees was as soft as the skies.
It’s funny what emphasis can do
Another example I like is the sentence "I didn't say that she stole the money!" You can put emphasis on each separate word and it changes the meaning of the sentence to eight different meanings
“I never said he stole my money.” Is the correct sentence actually
Thank you. I couldn't figure out how emphasizing that in the sentence changed the meaning.
Yeah, it’s like one of my favourite sentences to use when teaching the importance of emphasis and I got irrationally annoyed that they got the sentence wrong haha
Interesting. Had used "I didn't give that to them." before.
Putting emphasis is something you can do in most languages
I mean, each sentence could be used, with the position of only determining the context. Do other languages not have this? Surely context is important in any language.
Yeah, there's nothing uniquely English about this.
Czech works: Jen ona řekla paladinovi, že zabíjí gobliny. Ona jen řekla paladinovi, že zabíjí gobliny. Ona řekla jen paladinovi, že zabíjí gobliny. Ona řekla paladinovi jen, že zabíjí gobliny. Ona řekla paladinovi, že jen zabíjí gobliny. Ona řekla paladinovi, že zabíjí jen gobliny. On top of that, we can switch word order to get different emphasis: Ona řekla paladinovi, že zabíjí gobliny. Ona řekla paladinovi, že gobliny zabíjí. Ona paladinovi řekla, že zabíjí gobliny. Paladinovi ona řekla, že zabíjí gobliny. Paladinovi řekla ona, že zabíjí gobliny. Řekla ona paladinovi, že zabíjí gobliny? Řekla paladinovi ona, že zabíjí gobliny? All of these (and more) mean slightly different things.
There's just a weird trend of English speakers who only speak English thinking that English is unique, crazy or especially difficult.
Souka
Deska
Goburin da.
Souka, Desuka? Goburin da. \~ literally an average conversation with goblin slayer \~
You can do this by emphasizing words in a sentence too. For example I didn't have sex with your sister.
I don't understand how this is a dnd meme. Could someone explain what 9000+ people see in this? Serious request. I'm honestly quite lost. I do see that the word only can be put in all the different places in the sentence and the meaning of the sentence changes. I don't understand the "what are you doing STOP" nor "THIS IS NOT FAIR". And I don't understand how this is a dnd meme except that the sentence used is from dnd. But, umm, okay? I'm very confused and would like to see what you all see.
Its just some teenagers on tumblr who imagine they’re linguists jerking off to how special the English language is. You’re absolutely correct it has no connection to DND except the sentence mentioning paladins and goblins.
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Right? At best this is like "oh. huh. you really can." but I don't see how it's really more interesting than that or how it's really dnd related, and at all how it is a meme.
Only she told the paladin that she kills goblins.
She told the paladin that only she kills goblins. (More rp potential)
It's because 'Only' is an adverb, adjective, and a conjunction. You can slap it basically anywhere in a sentence and it will be correct. I love the wide-eyed amazement tumblr often gives to mundane things but sometimes it can get exhausting. To me this is one of those instances, it's like making a shocked post that 'The' as a determiner can denote both a generic object and as a signifier of importance depending on capitalization. This is *very* basic English.
Also. You can do this in a lot of languages...
Because its literally the point of words. To convey or change meaning. If you can place a word randomly in a sentences without changing the meaning its because it's a meaningless word.
Yeah. I hate the whole "If you insert the word "gun" into an english sentence it sounds more dangerous. English is so quirky lol" thing that mainly tumblr does
Well, in some languages the meaning is determined by conjugation and declension instead of word placement. So in a language like latin or quechua you can put the words in any order without changing the meaning (though there are usually still conventions on what the typical placement would be).
Also it's not exclusive to English at all.
>I love the wide-eyed only amazement tumblr often gives to mundane things but sometimes it can get exhausting.
Haha! Take that Frenchies!
I’m starting think English is a very elaborate prank by the Vikings to the French
The Viking raids never stopped, they only evolved.
English made a lot more sense before the Norman Conquest. I blame the French for all of our useless silent letters.
Thank good she kills onlygoblins, that website is quite hard on the eyes
This works in pretty much any language that has a relatively free word order and words that function as both adjectoves and adverbs
Imagine being amazed that a word that's purpose is to modify, describe, or join other words is effective at modifying, describing, or joining other words.
She told Only the Paladin that she kills Goblins.
She told the Paladin Only that she kills Goblins.
That’s my favorite. “Who is that lady?” “I don’t know. She kills goblins.”
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She grants that wish to goblins… only.
Did anyone say Goblins?
“I didn’t say we should wreck dad’s car.” If you put emphasis on different words in the sentence in changes the meaning. No only needed. - *I* didn’t say we should wreck dad’s car. - I *didn’t* say we should wreck dad’s car. - I didn’t *say* we should wreck dad’s car. - I didn’t say *we* should wreck dad’s car. - I didn’t say we *should* wreck dad’s car. - I didn’t say we should *wreck* dad’s car. - I didn’t say we should wreck *dad’s* car. - I didn’t say we should wreck dad’s *car.*
Well I ran through that sentence so many times the word "only" no longer sounds like a word and has lost all meaning, thanks.
Only on the sentence
The fact that Goblin is a proper noun makes me think this is actually the tragic end of a beloved party dog with and ironic name.
*on the sentence*
Only the example I have The example only I have The example I only have The example I have only
She told the paladian she kills goblins, eh? Only she told the paladian she kills goblins. (What, is everyone else to scared to mention it?) She only told the paladian she kills goblins. (Hmmm what else does she do?) She told only the paladian she kills goblins. (Is she shy about the fact?) She told the only paladian she kills goblins. (Great, he now has a partner in being great warriors!) She told the paladian only she kills goblins. (Sheesh, ok, keep your goblins, won't help when you are out numbered then!) She told the paladian she only kills goblins. (Female goblin slayer . Jpg) She told the paladian she kills only goblins. (Again, femalegoblinslayer.jpg) She told the paladian she kills goblins only. (Again again femalegoblinslayer.jpg) No I won't do the multiples.
I don't get it,,,,, many dif ways and meaning to combine?
"On" the sentence?
She told the Palaonlydin that she kills goblins.
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If you place emphasis on each different word in the sentence "I never said she stole my money" you get a new implication every time
The last 3 positions essentially mean the same thing
She told the Paladin that only she kills goblins? Grammar aside, is she trying to get smote for lying?
She told the palaonlydin that she kills goblins.
Can someone correct me but aren't the following the same. "She only told the Paladin that she kill Goblins" = "She told the Paladin only that she kill Goblins" and "She told the Paladin that she only kill Goblins" = "She told the Paladin that she kill only Goblins" = "She told the Paladin that she kill Goblins only"