[UA] (OT) Quotes

[Nick Wedig]

>What I DISLIKE is self-quotation, or making up a quote
>from an imaginary source and then using it to preface
>a chapter relating to the same imaginary world where
>the source exists.  I'm sure there's a simpler way to
>say that, but I think Stolze and Tynes saved
>themselves by putting RL quotes next to their invented
>ones.  But only just barely.

I tend to think that the quotes from in game characters provide an idea of how the GMCs in th OU talk and think, an idea perhaps missing in the rest of the main book (or which would be weaker without them... their interactions and worldview are perhaps better presented in various supplements).  

>
>PS. That reminds me.  A lot of people on this list (a
>lot of people on the internet, in fact) have signature
>lines with quotes in them.  I can't remember who it
>is, but my favourite so far has been "Anything said in
>Latin sounds profound."

Somewhere I read  the Latin phrase "If you can read this, you have too much education. Which is odd, as I can't read Latin, but I am overly educated.

ObUA: some magickal ritual test to detect avatars of the scholar?  Or just me guessing correctly based on a limited knowledge of linguistics?

Mr. Teapot
etymologist

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