Zerg losing its alienness.

[rainynightz]

Anyone else want the Infested Terran renamed the Terralisk?

I vote for Terraling.

[Triceron]

You want Zerg alienness?

Play the singleplay campaign.

[ManjiSanji]

Well, when the leader of your faction goes from a bizarre conscious, super-intelligent hive-mind to, well, just some grumpy human bitch, you tend to lose your alien identity.

[Dale]

In starcraft 1, they had the lisks (Mutalisks, Hydralisks, and Ultralisks,) and zerglings, names that dont mean anything, every time they have added units, it has been a real name, what will happen to lisks.

The campaign has a Zerg unit named Brutalisk.
Also, please be more specific with the titles of your threads.

[phazonjunkie]

In starcraft 1, they had the lisks (Mutalisks, Hydralisks, and Ultralisks,) and zerglings, names that dont mean anything, every time they have added units, it has been a real name, what will happen to lisks.

You fail linguistics forever.

The zerg units with the 'lisk' suffix aren't 'alien'. They are terran names given to them that were more or less descriptive. Same thing goes for various Protoss unit names. You think they actually call dragoons 'dragoons' or phoenixes 'phoenixes' (what the hell would the protoss know about 16th century european mounted infantry or an ancient bird from classical earth mythology?)

[eluadyl]

You fail linguistics forever.

The zerg units with the 'lisk' suffix aren't 'alien'. They are terran names given to them that were more or less descriptive. Same thing goes for various Protoss unit names. You think they actually call dragoons 'dragoons' or phoenixes 'phoenixes' (what the hell would the protoss know about 16th century european mounted infantry or an ancient bird from classical earth mythology?)

I don't think Protoss need to call their units in any name as they can transmit its whole identity with their minds. When a templar wants to tell another about a zealot, he would not need to put it into words probably

I don't know why I brought up this quite geeky comment btw

[warrior6]

Another good point

We don't know what the Zerg call their own units though.

i was told that the hydralisks are called braahhahahagrrrr and that zerglings are called grraaaaasssskkhhhhht with a silent T

[Quirel]

i was told that the hydralisks are called braahhahahagrrrr and that zerglings are called grraaaaasssskkhhhhht with a silent T

Quite true.

However, through a strange blip in xenolinguistics that confused even Douglas Adams, "braahhahahagrrrr" and "grraaaaasssskkhhhhht" are written as "Jackson" and "Wendy", respectively.

[MajinX]

i was told that the hydralisks are called braahhahahagrrrr and that zerglings are called grraaaaasssskkhhhhht with a silent T

lol quote for best post of the month. This reminds me of pokemon.. where they are named after the sound they make.

[Alzarath]

To me, lisk is something that's big and dangerous. Ling is something that's small and massable.


...so where would the roach fall under?