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Underrail => General => Topic started by: Piggon on November 02, 2018, 02:57:01 am

Title: Tchort
Post by: Piggon on November 02, 2018, 02:57:01 am

Hey guys, just a little question, where did the name Tchort come from? I am not talking about the lore of the game, im talking in real life, where does the name is inspired from?
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Title: Re: Tchort
Post by: hilf on November 02, 2018, 06:17:07 am

There's 99.9% chance it's this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chort

Title: Re: Tchort
Post by: Fenix on November 02, 2018, 08:34:09 am

Yeah, many instantly smelled that somethething bad, very bad going on in Institute of umf....  :o :-X

Title: Re: Tchort
Post by: HulkOSaurus on November 02, 2018, 04:28:34 pm

Чёрт=devil in Russian.

Title: Re: Tchort
Post by: MirddinEmris on November 02, 2018, 06:32:56 pm

More of a demon, often minor and not very smart one.

Title: Re: Tchort
Post by: STEN on November 05, 2018, 12:32:08 pm

I wonder why devs added letter 'T' to "chort" (чёрт) name. Could break a tongue while pronouncing it :)

Title: Re: Tchort
Post by: HulkOSaurus on November 05, 2018, 02:32:45 pm

I believe that if you were to write Chort, that would be pronounced [kort] considering the established phonetics. In Slavic languages in general there is a designated letter for the sounds 'CH' as in 'chart', for 'CH' as in 'chorus' is 'k'. To distinguish that in English, T is put before 'CH' to force 'CH' as in 'chart.' Therefore Tchort.

Title: Re: Tchort
Post by: Styg on November 05, 2018, 02:52:19 pm

Quote from: HulkOSaurus on November 05, 2018, 02:32:45 pm

To distinguish that in English, T is put before 'CH' to force 'CH' as in 'chart.'

That is, indeed, how it is pronounced.

Title: Re: Tchort
Post by: Piggon on November 05, 2018, 10:09:44 pm

thanks guys  :)

Title: Re: Tchort
Post by: paulkirikawa on December 17, 2018, 03:51:15 am

I have to say the design is funny. kinda like "ghoti" when I tried to pronounce it back in high school.