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I'm reminded of a scene from the Inheritance series of books that I read when I was younger. The main character, Eragon, was telling his mentor how he blessed a
by Kronopath 12y ago
I'm reminded of a scene from the Inheritance series of books that I read when I was younger. The main character, Eragon, was telling his mentor how he blessed an orphan baby with the magic words "Atra gülia un ilian tauthr ono un atra ono waíse skölir frá rauthr".
His mentor's response was "Wait what? Are you sure you said skölir, and not sköliro?"
Turns out while he had meant to say "May luck and happiness follow you and may you be shielded from misfortune", he instead said "May luck and happiness follow you and may you be a shield from misfortune". Because of this, the girl grew up prescient, supernaturally aware of when other people were in danger or about to be harmed, and compelled to do anything in her power to protect them from it.
I'm pretty sure I've seen problems that are almost as bad in some of the codebases that I've worked with.
- muaddirac 12y agoI read those when I was younger as well. I came away not a huge fan of the series because of the (in my opinion) poor writing and huge plot holes. Why didn't he just bless the kid with "May you be a killer of Galbatorix, and may no one else die in the process."
- ravitation 12y agoThe extremely derivative plot didn't help either. I actually came away with an active dislike of the series. But, I like the connection to semantic errors.
- Kronopath 12y agoI won't say I was a huge fan of the series either. I only ever read the first two books, and even then have only vague memories of them. I had to look stuff up online to fill in the details of my parent comment. But it had a pretty interesting way of treating magic, and that's one thing that was memorable.