Brainstorming Boughene/Regina (SM 1904)

[Grav_Moped]

It's pronounced just like it's spelled.

(I think of it as bow-jheen, long O in the first syllable.)

 

[mike wightman]

Bough can be pronounced as

bow (as in bow down peasant)
boff (enough already)
bowg
and likely more.
So Bowene
Boffene
Bowgene

 

[TamsinP]

Bough - ow; Bow-ene
Through - oo; Boo-ene
Enough - uff; Buff-ene
Though - oh/o; Bo-ene
Cough - off; Boff-ene
Though(t) - or(t) probably not this one, as it needs the "t" after
Thorough - uh; Buh-ene

So many possibilities...

 

[Spinward Flow]

Bough can be pronounced as

bow (as in bow down peasant)
boff (enough already)
bowg
and likely more.
So Bowene
Boffene
Bowgene

Bough - ow; Bow-ene
Through - oo; Boo-ene
Enough - uff; Buff-ene
Though - oh/o; Bo-ene
Cough - off; Boff-ene
Though(t) - or(t) probably not this one, as it needs the "t" after
Thorough - uh; Buh-ene

So many possibilities...

Lars had a clip for this during his Tesla Time News show this past Sunday that PERFECTLY DEPICTS this precise problem, particularly since he lives in Denmark and for him, English is a Second Language.

Linked video skips to 28:54 for the Let's End Off with a Bit Of Fun segment.
You HAVE TO watch this with the sound on.

 

[Spinward Flow]

And then along comes Blue at Overly Sarcastic Productions explaining why English is such a MESS!

 

[Grav_Moped]

And this is the core of the problem: (Censor bit, mine -- not in the original)

The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse w***e. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

 

[casquilho]

And this is the core of the problem: (Censor bit, mine -- not in the original)

I need to keep that quote handy because it is the truth for sure.

 

[Grav_Moped]

Because I'm sometimes silly also:

I reject your sound logic and valid science. Rather, I like the setting where we find an alien planet where Disco is considered the songs from the gods and Donna Summer is the godess of love....

Sorry Aramis, I have to be silly once in a while or my head explodes.

Ok, now there's a challenge!
We did a visit to the Tiki-bar planet (@robject 's take on Rangent/Vilis).

Now, to seek out the Disco World! Maybe it's a space station...

Edits: put Rangent back into the correct subsector, minor typoes.

For the record (pun unintended, but why not?) I had that on (secondhand) vinyl back in the day.

Well, in the IMTU version of Boughene/Regina*, Boughene Station shares an orbit around the gas giant Komesh with Boughene, and Komesh has four additional moons. Some are interesting...

"ee", the innermost one, has hundreds of residents, is balkanized, and is TL-8. Ok, there are multiple discotheque districts on this Size 6 desert world, and they settle conflicts with dance-offs.

"eff" is uninhabited, and an inferno. That, of course implies...

"aitch" is a rad world. "Rad" started being used for "radical" in the 1980s -- and by then, disco was dead on Terra. So, not here.

"eye" has tens of thousands of residents, and Gov-D (religious dictatorship). Which means we can have @casquilho's world ruled by a cult of Donna Summer worshippers... (as one does).

The planet of Boughene is "que". Mind you, nobody really lives there -- instead, they're all in the space station that shares its orbit.


Screenshot of part of the IMTU variant:


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* The IMTU version is the TravellerWorlds output, but with the preference setting of "Main world is a satellite" set before generating the system. Also, there's no Ancients stuff going on here because I don't want that Adventure to mess up MTU. Again, it's an epic Adventure (and Mongoose did a very good version), but as for me I'd run it as a one-shot campaign that doesn't affect setting continuity -- or just consider it a decent SF novel stuffed into the format of a Traveller Adventure.