or is it better to just be online for long time? And how long does it take to get a rank of 5?
Not long at all if you log in at least once a day and make a few posts, meaningful posts with substance. If you just log in to troll or spam it will take a lot longer if not forever. Just log in, look for posts about games you like/dislike and post your comments. Make sure you back up your comments with reason and facts when possible. Just posting "This game Rocks!" or "This game Sucks!" will not get you there quickly but if you give reasons for why you think that you'll be there in no time.
Oh and one more thing. Try to get into the discussions here and in the Pub as much as possible. Don't ever be afraid to post how you truly feel on any topic. You will get jumped on by the Trolls here however but don't let them get to you. Reply to them with calm thoughtful replies if you reply at all. If you get into a flame war with them not only are you giving them what they want but you can also hurt your rank with deleted or hostile posts.
"Put your foot where your mouth is." - Wisdom from my grandfather "Paper or plastic? ... because I'm afraid I'll have to suffocate you unless you put this bag on your head..." - Ethnitrek AC1: Wierding from Harvestgain
you could always consolidate a number of your small posts into 1 average sized one.
No required quests! And if I decide I want to be an assassin-cartographer-dancer-pastry chef who lives only to stalk and kill interior decorators, then that's who I want to be, even if it takes me four years to max all the skills and everyone else thinks I'm freaking nuts. -Madimorga-
People don't look at your rating to decide if you are smart or cool, they judge you from the quality of your posts.
ste2000: "And that having been said, notice how elite I am."
Seriously, I was elite when I first joined, but I dropped to as low as 'apprentice' I believe afterward. So it's not a static rating. Given that, I don't really care about it.
"Put your foot where your mouth is." - Wisdom from my grandfather "Paper or plastic? ... because I'm afraid I'll have to suffocate you unless you put this bag on your head..." - Ethnitrek AC1: Wierding from Harvestgain
People don't look at your rating to decide if you are smart or cool, they judge you from the quality of your posts.
ste2000: "And that having been said, notice how elite I am."
Seriously, I was elite when I first joined, but I dropped to as low as 'apprentice' I believe afterward. So it's not a static rating. Given that, I don't really care about it.
It is not my fault if MMORPG.com chose to use this useless tool to rate the "worthiness" of the poster, and gave me an Elite rating, I really didn't ask for it.
In fact I think I am worth more than that.
I should get the title "the only one" in all fairness, Elite is not good enough for me, hence I am not happy with it.
On a serious note, this tool is so useful that nobody understand how does it work exactly, hence the pointless in having it at all (but because every Forum uses it, let us use it too).
The only thing they cause is endless threads about people asking how can they rise their rating, as if it actually was a requirement to be accepted into the comunity.
"Yes, you got 5 stars.......you cool, come in........."
"No, you only have 1 star............. you are retarded, fuck off.........."
I don't think it works that way......just relax and enjoy the forum.
Life is too short to worry about 5 frikking stars under your Avatar.
People don't look at your rating to decide if you are smart or cool, they judge you from the quality of your posts.
ste2000: "And that having been said, notice how elite I am."
Seriously, I was elite when I first joined, but I dropped to as low as 'apprentice' I believe afterward. So it's not a static rating. Given that, I don't really care about it.
It is not my fault if MMORPG.com chose to use this useless tool to rate the "worthiness" of the poster, and gave me an Elite rating, I really didn't ask for it.
This tool is so useful that nobody understand how does it work exactly, hence the pointless in having it at all (but because every Forum uses it, let us use it too).
The only thing they cause is endless threads about people asking how can they rise their rating, as if it actually was a requirement to be accepted into the comunity.
"Yes, you got 5 stars.......you cool, come in........."
"No, you only have 1 star............. you are retarded, fuck off.........."
I don't think it works that way......just relax and enjoy the forum.
Life is too short to worry about 5 frikking stars under your Avatar.
For once I am speechless. No joke. You said it all right there.
(Now see kiddo this post of mine is considered next to ^%#@%ing worthless so I won't get points)
People, people. Relax. No need to get all philosphical on us.
The kid just asks the question because he wants to grind some points but the Runescape server is down. Simple.
Is not!
(That too would be considered a useless post and I would not get points for it unless of course I added this incredibly long winded report from a random page off of wikipedia
Cheese is a solid food made from the milk of cows, goats, sheep and other mammals. Cheese is made by coagulating milk. This is accomplished by first acidification with a bacterial culture and then employing an enzyme, rennet (or rennet substitutes) to coagulate the milk to "curds and whey."[1] The precise bacteria and processing of the curds play a role in defining the texture and flavor of most cheeses. Some cheeses also feature molds, either on the outer rind or throughout.
There are hundreds of types of cheese produced all over the world. Different styles and flavors of cheese are the result of using milk from various mammals or with different butterfat contents, employing particular species of bacteria and molds, and varying the length of aging and other processing treatments. Other factors include animal diet and the addition of flavoring agents such as herbs, spices, or wood smoke. Whether the milk is pasteurized may also affect the flavor. The yellow to red coloring of many cheeses is a result of adding annatto. Cheeses are eaten both on their own and cooked as part of various dishes; most cheeses melt when heated.
For a few cheeses, the milk is curdled by adding acids such as vinegar or lemon juice. Most cheeses, however, are acidified to a lesser degree by bacteria, which turn milk sugars into lactic acid, followed by the addition of rennet to complete the curdling. Rennet is an enzyme mixture traditionally obtained from the stomach lining of young cattle, but now also laboratory produced. Vegetarian alternatives to rennet are available; most are produced by fermentation of the fungus Mucor miehei, but others have been extracted from various species of the Cynara thistle family.
Cheese has served as a hedge against famine and is a good travel food. It is valuable for its portability, long life, and high content of fat, protein, calcium, and phosphorus. Cheese is a more compact form of nutrition and has a longer shelf life than the milk from which it is made. Cheesemakers can place themselves near the center of a dairy region and benefit from fresher milk, lower milk prices, and lower shipping costs. The substantial storage life of cheese lets a cheesemaker sell when prices are high or when money is needed
People, people. Relax. No need to get all philosphical on us.
The kid just asks the question because he wants to grind some points but the Runescape server is down. Simple.
Is not!
(That too would be considered a useless post and I would not get points for it unless of course I added this incredibly long winded report from a random page off of wikipedia
Cheese is a solid food made from the milk of cows, goats, sheep and other mammals. Cheese is made by coagulating milk. This is accomplished by first acidification with a bacterial culture and then employing an enzyme, rennet (or rennet substitutes) to coagulate the milk to "curds and whey."[1] The precise bacteria and processing of the curds play a role in defining the texture and flavor of most cheeses. Some cheeses also feature molds, either on the outer rind or throughout.
There are hundreds of types of cheese produced all over the world. Different styles and flavors of cheese are the result of using milk from various mammals or with different butterfat contents, employing particular species of bacteria and molds, and varying the length of aging and other processing treatments. Other factors include animal diet and the addition of flavoring agents such as herbs, spices, or wood smoke. Whether the milk is pasteurized may also affect the flavor. The yellow to red coloring of many cheeses is a result of adding annatto. Cheeses are eaten both on their own and cooked as part of various dishes; most cheeses melt when heated.
For a few cheeses, the milk is curdled by adding acids such as vinegar or lemon juice. Most cheeses, however, are acidified to a lesser degree by bacteria, which turn milk sugars into lactic acid, followed by the addition of rennet to complete the curdling. Rennet is an enzyme mixture traditionally obtained from the stomach lining of young cattle, but now also laboratory produced. Vegetarian alternatives to rennet are available; most are produced by fermentation of the fungus Mucor miehei, but others have been extracted from various species of the Cynara thistle family.
Cheese has served as a hedge against famine and is a good travel food. It is valuable for its portability, long life, and high content of fat, protein, calcium, and phosphorus. Cheese is a more compact form of nutrition and has a longer shelf life than the milk from which it is made. Cheesemakers can place themselves near the center of a dairy region and benefit from fresher milk, lower milk prices, and lower shipping costs. The substantial storage life of cheese lets a cheesemaker sell when prices are high or when money is needed
So that's ste2000's trick! Cheater! I KEN it!
"Put your foot where your mouth is." - Wisdom from my grandfather "Paper or plastic? ... because I'm afraid I'll have to suffocate you unless you put this bag on your head..." - Ethnitrek AC1: Wierding from Harvestgain
Whats sick is I actually just read that whole damn thing after I posted it.
rofl
PS...
History
There are competing theories as to the origins of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc. One theory proposes that it was developed in Frisia and from there spread later to England. Another holds that runes were first introduced to England from Scandinavia where the futhorc was modified and then exported to Frisia. Both theories have their inherent weaknesses and a definitive answer likely awaits more archaeological evidence.
The early Futhorc was identical to the Elder Futhark but for the split of ? a into three variants ? ?c, ? æsc and ? ?s, resulting in 26 runes. This was necessary to account for the new phoneme produced by the Ingvaeonic split of allophones of long and short a. The earliest ? ?s rune is found on the 5th century Undley bracteate. ? ?c was introduced later, in the 6th century. The double-barred ?hægl characteristic for continental inscriptions is first attested as late as 698, on St. Cuthbert's coffin; before that, the single-barred Scandinavian variant was used.
In England, the Futhorc was further extended to 28 and finally to 33 runes, and runic writing in England became closely associated with the Latin scriptoria from the time of Anglo-Saxon Christianization in the 7th century. The futhorc started to be replaced by the Latin alphabet from around the 9th century. In some cases, texts would be written in the Latin alphabet but runes would be used in place of the word it represented, and the þorn and wynn came to be used as extensions of the Latin alphabet. By the Norman Conquest of 1066 it was very rare and disappeared altogether shortly thereafter. From at least five centuries of use, less than 200 artifacts bearing futhorc inscriptions have survived.
The Anglo-Saxon rune poem (Cotton Otho B.x.165) has the following runes, listed with their Unicode glyphs, their names, their transliteration and their approximate phonetic value in IPA notation where different from the transliteration:
The first 24 of these directly continue the Elder Futhark letters, extended by five additional runes, representing long vowels and diphthongs (á, æ, ý, ia, ea), comparable to the five forfeda of the Ogham alphabet.
The letter sequence, and indeed the letter inventory is not fixed. Compared to the letters of the rune poem given above,
f u þ o r c ? w h n i j eo p x s t b e m l ? œ d a æ y io ea
the Thames scramasax has 28 letters, with a slightly different order, and edhel missing:
f u þ o r c ? w h n i io eo p x s t b e ? d l m j a æ y ea
The Vienna Codex has also 28 letters; the Ruthwell Cross inscription has 31 letters; Cotton Domitian A.ix has another four additional runes:
? cweorð kw, a modification of peorð
? calc "chalice" k (when doubled appearing as kk)
? stan "stone" st
? gar "spear" g (as opposed to palatalized ??)
These four additional letters are not found epigraphically (the stan shape is found on the Westeremden yew-stick, but likely as a Spiegelrune). Cotton Domitian A.ix reaches thus a total of 33 letters, according to the transliteration introduced above arranged in the order
f u þ o r c ? w h n i j eo p x s t b e m l ? d œ a æ y ea io cw k st g
In the manuscript, the runes are arranged in three rows, glossed with Latin equivalents below (in the third row above) and with their names above (in the third row below). The manuscript has traces of corrections by a 16th century hand, inverting the position of m and d. Eolh is mistakenly labelled as sigel, and in place of sigel, there is a kaun like letter ?, corrected to proper sigel ? above it. Eoh is mis-labelled as eþel. Apart from ing and ear, all rune names are due to the later scribe, identified as Robert Talbot (died 1558).
feoh
ur
þorn
os
rað
cen
gifu
wen
hegel
neað
inc
geu{a}r
sigel
peorð
? sig
?
?
?
?
?
?
?
?
?
?
?
?
?
?
?
?
f
u
ð
o
r
c
g
uu
h
n
i
ge
eo
p
x
s
tir
berc
eþel
deg
lagu
mann
? pro
ac
ælc
yr
?
?
?
?
?
?
?
?
?
?
?
?
t
b
e
m{d}
l
ing
ð{m}
œ
a
æ
y
ear
{orent.}
io
{cur.}
q
{iolx}
k
{z}
sc{st}
{&}
g
?
?
?
?
?
?
ior
cweorð
calc
stan
ear
Another futhorc row is found in Cotton Galba A.ii.
Futhorc series inscribed on a seax blade found in the Thames.
The Old English and Old Frisian Runic Inscriptions database project at the Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany aims at collecting the genuine corpus of Old English inscriptions containing more than two runes in its paper edition, while the electronic edition aims at including both genuine and doubtful inscriptions down to single-rune inscriptions. The corpus of the paper edition encompasses about one hundred objects (including stone slabs, stone crosses, bones, rings, brooches, weapons, urns, a writing tablet, tweezers, a sun-dial, comb, bracteates, caskets, a font, dishes, and graffiti). The database includes, in addition, 16 inscriptions containing a single rune, several runic coins, and 8 cases of dubious runic characters (runelike signs, possible Latin characters, weathered characters). Comprising fewer than 200 inscriptions, the corpus is slightly larger than that of Continental Elder Futhark (about 80 inscriptions, ca. 400–700), but slightly smaller than that of the Scandinavian Elder Futhark (about 260 inscriptions, ca. 200–800).
Runic finds in England cluster along the east coast with a few finds scattered further inland in Southern England. Frisian finds cluster in West Frisia. Looijenga (1997) lists 23 English (including two 7th c. Christian inscriptions) and 21 Frisian inscriptions predating the 9th century.
Eat that! ok... I forgot what this thread was about again?
"Put your foot where your mouth is." - Wisdom from my grandfather "Paper or plastic? ... because I'm afraid I'll have to suffocate you unless you put this bag on your head..." - Ethnitrek AC1: Wierding from Harvestgain
I see your babble on history and raise you a summit.
The Inter-Korean Summit refers to meetings between the leaders of North Korea and South Korea. The South Korean Government has consistently emphasised the need for an inter-Korean summit, which it recognizes as instrumental in resolving the issue of the North Korean nuclear program and developing inter-Korean relations.
With the North Korean side expressing a favourable response, the two Koreas reached agreement on August 5 2007, on the second Inter-Korean Summit. The Second Inter-Korean Summit was originally planned to be held in Pyongyang on August 28–29. However, due to floods in North Korea, the Summit was rescheduled for October 2–4. In accordance with the agreement between President Roh Moo-hyun of the Republic of Korea and Chairman Kim Jong Il of the National Defense Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, President Roh visited Pyongyang from October 2–4, 2007.
Originally posted by Adreal So that's ste2000's trick! Cheater! I KEN it!
Eheh, you got me, damn!!!
Now that I think of it, this rating system looks even more stupid.
How if people start Copy & Paste stuff just to get to the Holy Graal, yes ........the legendary 5 stars thingy which only few chosen people in the entire Universe possess.
There is a legend attached to this mythical item, but some people claim is true:
"Some elders claim that a dark knight with a 5 stars on his ass once passed by the village, all the commoners were in awe and everyone was worshipping his stellar ass (No they weren't gay either....apparently).
It's then that a young man decided: "One day that man would be me"
So this guy left the village never to return again, starting its long journey in search of the sacred 5 "frikking" stars.
People in the village say he died killed by a huge dragon called MOD, his sword, the mythical "Spam", has been founded along a river shore.
Some says the guy defeated the Dragon and he now leaves in a place called MMORPG.com, where he nurse lovingly his 5 stars thingy attached to his fat ass"
By the way, does quoting other people long posts gives you rating????
That would be criminal........
Well I decided, next time we talk about Religion I am gonna quote the entire Bible.
Funny I got my 5 Star rating (100/100) by just making meaningful posts with substance it's not that hard to do. Hell you can get to 4 stars just by logging in every day and only actually posting once and a while as long as your posts aren't spam or deliberate flame bait. I find this thread rather humorous in the fact that by just doing the right thing high ratings are accomplished without even trying but still people will try to cheat their way there. Just make every post with substance and not spam and you'll be at 5 stars before you even realize you're there. So far all I see in this thread is Spam. A good way to make your rating go down and NOT up.
Comments
BY READING THE F**KING FAQ!!
CLICK HERE TO GET A LIST OF FREE MMO LISTS!!!
does posting give much "rank"?
or is it better to just be online for long time?
And how long does it take to get a rank of 5?
Bren
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Ok I will try
(4 words bit small post )
Oh and one more thing. Try to get into the discussions here and in the Pub as much as possible. Don't ever be afraid to post how you truly feel on any topic. You will get jumped on by the Trolls here however but don't let them get to you. Reply to them with calm thoughtful replies if you reply at all. If you get into a flame war with them not only are you giving them what they want but you can also hurt your rank with deleted or hostile posts.
Bren
while(horse==dead)
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beat();
}
BY READING THE F**KING FAQ!!
that made me laugh
"Put your foot where your mouth is." - Wisdom from my grandfather
"Paper or plastic? ... because I'm afraid I'll have to suffocate you unless you put this bag on your head..." - Ethnitrek
AC1: Wierding from Harvestgain
Why people is so bothered about the rating?
People don't look at your rating to decide if you are smart or cool, they judge you from the quality of your posts.
And asking how can you improve your forum rating is neither smart nor is cool.
PS: In times like these I feel like the guy on Branelael Avatar.................
Bren
while(horse==dead)
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I make small posts alot.
Change my mind so much I can't even trust it
My mind change me so much I can't even trust myself
you could always consolidate a number of your small posts into 1 average sized one.
No required quests! And if I decide I want to be an assassin-cartographer-dancer-pastry chef who lives only to stalk and kill interior decorators, then that's who I want to be, even if it takes me four years to max all the skills and everyone else thinks I'm freaking nuts. -Madimorga-
Seriously, I was elite when I first joined, but I dropped to as low as 'apprentice' I believe afterward. So it's not a static rating. Given that, I don't really care about it.
"Put your foot where your mouth is." - Wisdom from my grandfather
"Paper or plastic? ... because I'm afraid I'll have to suffocate you unless you put this bag on your head..." - Ethnitrek
AC1: Wierding from Harvestgain
so you can even gain rank with post that have only 4 words or less??
because in the FAO they say that they are looking at how much you
posted on the forum. and 1 more question:
can your rank get lower then 1?
Azzumy <<< does name give more rank of not?
By spelling correctly and not using lewt speak.
Seriously, I was elite when I first joined, but I dropped to as low as 'apprentice' I believe afterward. So it's not a static rating. Given that, I don't really care about it.
It is not my fault if MMORPG.com chose to use this useless tool to rate the "worthiness" of the poster, and gave me an Elite rating, I really didn't ask for it.
In fact I think I am worth more than that.
I should get the title "the only one" in all fairness, Elite is not good enough for me, hence I am not happy with it.
On a serious note, this tool is so useful that nobody understand how does it work exactly, hence the pointless in having it at all (but because every Forum uses it, let us use it too).
The only thing they cause is endless threads about people asking how can they rise their rating, as if it actually was a requirement to be accepted into the comunity.
"Yes, you got 5 stars.......you cool, come in........."
"No, you only have 1 star............. you are retarded, fuck off.........."
I don't think it works that way......just relax and enjoy the forum.
Life is too short to worry about 5 frikking stars under your Avatar.
Seriously, I was elite when I first joined, but I dropped to as low as 'apprentice' I believe afterward. So it's not a static rating. Given that, I don't really care about it.
For once I am speechless. No joke. You said it all right there.It is not my fault if MMORPG.com chose to use this useless tool to rate the "worthiness" of the poster, and gave me an Elite rating, I really didn't ask for it.
This tool is so useful that nobody understand how does it work exactly, hence the pointless in having it at all (but because every Forum uses it, let us use it too).
The only thing they cause is endless threads about people asking how can they rise their rating, as if it actually was a requirement to be accepted into the comunity.
"Yes, you got 5 stars.......you cool, come in........."
"No, you only have 1 star............. you are retarded, fuck off.........."
I don't think it works that way......just relax and enjoy the forum.
Life is too short to worry about 5 frikking stars under your Avatar.
(Now see kiddo this post of mine is considered next to ^%#@%ing worthless so I won't get points)
People, people. Relax. No need to get all philosphical on us.
The kid just asks the question because he wants to grind some points but the Runescape server is down. Simple.
CLICK HERE TO GET A LIST OF FREE MMO LISTS!!!
Is not!
(That too would be considered a useless post and I would not get points for it unless of course I added this incredibly long winded report from a random page off of wikipedia
Cheese is a solid food made from the milk of cows, goats, sheep and other mammals. Cheese is made by coagulating milk. This is accomplished by first acidification with a bacterial culture and then employing an enzyme, rennet (or rennet substitutes) to coagulate the milk to "curds and whey."[1] The precise bacteria and processing of the curds play a role in defining the texture and flavor of most cheeses. Some cheeses also feature molds, either on the outer rind or throughout.
There are hundreds of types of cheese produced all over the world. Different styles and flavors of cheese are the result of using milk from various mammals or with different butterfat contents, employing particular species of bacteria and molds, and varying the length of aging and other processing treatments. Other factors include animal diet and the addition of flavoring agents such as herbs, spices, or wood smoke. Whether the milk is pasteurized may also affect the flavor. The yellow to red coloring of many cheeses is a result of adding annatto. Cheeses are eaten both on their own and cooked as part of various dishes; most cheeses melt when heated.
For a few cheeses, the milk is curdled by adding acids such as vinegar or lemon juice. Most cheeses, however, are acidified to a lesser degree by bacteria, which turn milk sugars into lactic acid, followed by the addition of rennet to complete the curdling. Rennet is an enzyme mixture traditionally obtained from the stomach lining of young cattle, but now also laboratory produced. Vegetarian alternatives to rennet are available; most are produced by fermentation of the fungus Mucor miehei, but others have been extracted from various species of the Cynara thistle family.
Cheese has served as a hedge against famine and is a good travel food. It is valuable for its portability, long life, and high content of fat, protein, calcium, and phosphorus. Cheese is a more compact form of nutrition and has a longer shelf life than the milk from which it is made. Cheesemakers can place themselves near the center of a dairy region and benefit from fresher milk, lower milk prices, and lower shipping costs. The substantial storage life of cheese lets a cheesemaker sell when prices are high or when money is needed
Is not!
(That too would be considered a useless post and I would not get points for it unless of course I added this incredibly long winded report from a random page off of wikipedia
Cheese is a solid food made from the milk of cows, goats, sheep and other mammals. Cheese is made by coagulating milk. This is accomplished by first acidification with a bacterial culture and then employing an enzyme, rennet (or rennet substitutes) to coagulate the milk to "curds and whey."[1] The precise bacteria and processing of the curds play a role in defining the texture and flavor of most cheeses. Some cheeses also feature molds, either on the outer rind or throughout.
There are hundreds of types of cheese produced all over the world. Different styles and flavors of cheese are the result of using milk from various mammals or with different butterfat contents, employing particular species of bacteria and molds, and varying the length of aging and other processing treatments. Other factors include animal diet and the addition of flavoring agents such as herbs, spices, or wood smoke. Whether the milk is pasteurized may also affect the flavor. The yellow to red coloring of many cheeses is a result of adding annatto. Cheeses are eaten both on their own and cooked as part of various dishes; most cheeses melt when heated.
For a few cheeses, the milk is curdled by adding acids such as vinegar or lemon juice. Most cheeses, however, are acidified to a lesser degree by bacteria, which turn milk sugars into lactic acid, followed by the addition of rennet to complete the curdling. Rennet is an enzyme mixture traditionally obtained from the stomach lining of young cattle, but now also laboratory produced. Vegetarian alternatives to rennet are available; most are produced by fermentation of the fungus Mucor miehei, but others have been extracted from various species of the Cynara thistle family.
Cheese has served as a hedge against famine and is a good travel food. It is valuable for its portability, long life, and high content of fat, protein, calcium, and phosphorus. Cheese is a more compact form of nutrition and has a longer shelf life than the milk from which it is made. Cheesemakers can place themselves near the center of a dairy region and benefit from fresher milk, lower milk prices, and lower shipping costs. The substantial storage life of cheese lets a cheesemaker sell when prices are high or when money is needed
So that's ste2000's trick! Cheater! I KEN it!
"Put your foot where your mouth is." - Wisdom from my grandfather
"Paper or plastic? ... because I'm afraid I'll have to suffocate you unless you put this bag on your head..." - Ethnitrek
AC1: Wierding from Harvestgain
Whats sick is I actually just read that whole damn thing after I posted it.
PS...
History
There are competing theories as to the origins of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc. One theory proposes that it was developed in Frisia and from there spread later to England. Another holds that runes were first introduced to England from Scandinavia where the futhorc was modified and then exported to Frisia. Both theories have their inherent weaknesses and a definitive answer likely awaits more archaeological evidence.
The early Futhorc was identical to the Elder Futhark but for the split of ? a into three variants ? ?c, ? æsc and ? ?s, resulting in 26 runes. This was necessary to account for the new phoneme produced by the Ingvaeonic split of allophones of long and short a. The earliest ? ?s rune is found on the 5th century Undley bracteate. ? ?c was introduced later, in the 6th century. The double-barred ? hægl characteristic for continental inscriptions is first attested as late as 698, on St. Cuthbert's coffin; before that, the single-barred Scandinavian variant was used.
In England, the Futhorc was further extended to 28 and finally to 33 runes, and runic writing in England became closely associated with the Latin scriptoria from the time of Anglo-Saxon Christianization in the 7th century. The futhorc started to be replaced by the Latin alphabet from around the 9th century. In some cases, texts would be written in the Latin alphabet but runes would be used in place of the word it represented, and the þorn and wynn came to be used as extensions of the Latin alphabet. By the Norman Conquest of 1066 it was very rare and disappeared altogether shortly thereafter. From at least five centuries of use, less than 200 artifacts bearing futhorc inscriptions have survived.
[edit] Letters
The Futhorc
The Anglo-Saxon rune poem (Cotton Otho B.x.165) has the following runes, listed with their Unicode glyphs, their names, their transliteration and their approximate phonetic value in IPA notation where different from the transliteration:
The first 24 of these directly continue the Elder Futhark letters, extended by five additional runes, representing long vowels and diphthongs (á, æ, ý, ia, ea), comparable to the five forfeda of the Ogham alphabet.
Thorn and Wynn were introduced into the Latin English alphabet to represent [θ] and [w], but the they were replaced with th and w in Middle English.
The letter sequence, and indeed the letter inventory is not fixed. Compared to the letters of the rune poem given above,
f u þ o r c ? w h n i j eo p x s t b e m l ? œ d a æ y io ea
the Thames scramasax has 28 letters, with a slightly different order, and edhel missing:
f u þ o r c ? w h n i io eo p x s t b e ? d l m j a æ y ea
The Vienna Codex has also 28 letters; the Ruthwell Cross inscription has 31 letters; Cotton Domitian A.ix has another four additional runes:
These four additional letters are not found epigraphically (the stan shape is found on the Westeremden yew-stick, but likely as a Spiegelrune). Cotton Domitian A.ix reaches thus a total of 33 letters, according to the transliteration introduced above arranged in the order
f u þ o r c ? w h n i j eo p x s t b e m l ? d œ a æ y ea io cw k st g
In the manuscript, the runes are arranged in three rows, glossed with Latin equivalents below (in the third row above) and with their names above (in the third row below). The manuscript has traces of corrections by a 16th century hand, inverting the position of m and d. Eolh is mistakenly labelled as sigel, and in place of sigel, there is a kaun like letter ?, corrected to proper sigel ? above it. Eoh is mis-labelled as eþel. Apart from ing and ear, all rune names are due to the later scribe, identified as Robert Talbot (died 1558).
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Another futhorc row is found in Cotton Galba A.ii.
Walahfrid Strabo records a Futhorc row of 42 runes.
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Futhorc series inscribed on a seax blade found in the Thames.
The Old English and Old Frisian Runic Inscriptions database project at the Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany aims at collecting the genuine corpus of Old English inscriptions containing more than two runes in its paper edition, while the electronic edition aims at including both genuine and doubtful inscriptions down to single-rune inscriptions. The corpus of the paper edition encompasses about one hundred objects (including stone slabs, stone crosses, bones, rings, brooches, weapons, urns, a writing tablet, tweezers, a sun-dial, comb, bracteates, caskets, a font, dishes, and graffiti). The database includes, in addition, 16 inscriptions containing a single rune, several runic coins, and 8 cases of dubious runic characters (runelike signs, possible Latin characters, weathered characters). Comprising fewer than 200 inscriptions, the corpus is slightly larger than that of Continental Elder Futhark (about 80 inscriptions, ca. 400–700), but slightly smaller than that of the Scandinavian Elder Futhark (about 260 inscriptions, ca. 200–800).
Runic finds in England cluster along the east coast with a few finds scattered further inland in Southern England. Frisian finds cluster in West Frisia. Looijenga (1997) lists 23 English (including two 7th c. Christian inscriptions) and 21 Frisian inscriptions predating the 9th century.
Eat that! ok... I forgot what this thread was about again?
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I see your babble on history and raise you a summit.
The Inter-Korean Summit refers to meetings between the leaders of North Korea and South Korea. The South Korean Government has consistently emphasised the need for an inter-Korean summit, which it recognizes as instrumental in resolving the issue of the North Korean nuclear program and developing inter-Korean relations.
At the first Inter-Korean Summit, North Korean leader met South Korean President in June 2000 in Pyongyang.
With the North Korean side expressing a favourable response, the two Koreas reached agreement on August 5 2007, on the second Inter-Korean Summit. The Second Inter-Korean Summit was originally planned to be held in Pyongyang on August 28–29. However, due to floods in North Korea, the Summit was rescheduled for October 2–4. In accordance with the agreement between President Roh Moo-hyun of the Republic of Korea and Chairman Kim Jong Il of the National Defense Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, President Roh visited Pyongyang from October 2–4, 2007.
Posting irrelevant and long posts is just spam.
Change my mind so much I can't even trust it
My mind change me so much I can't even trust myself
Eheh, you got me, damn!!!
Now that I think of it, this rating system looks even more stupid.
How if people start Copy & Paste stuff just to get to the Holy Graal, yes ........the legendary 5 stars thingy which only few chosen people in the entire Universe possess.
There is a legend attached to this mythical item, but some people claim is true:
"Some elders claim that a dark knight with a 5 stars on his ass once passed by the village, all the commoners were in awe and everyone was worshipping his stellar ass (No they weren't gay either....apparently).
It's then that a young man decided: "One day that man would be me"
So this guy left the village never to return again, starting its long journey in search of the sacred 5 "frikking" stars.
People in the village say he died killed by a huge dragon called MOD, his sword, the mythical "Spam", has been founded along a river shore.
Some says the guy defeated the Dragon and he now leaves in a place called MMORPG.com, where he nurse lovingly his 5 stars thingy attached to his fat ass"
By the way, does quoting other people long posts gives you rating????
That would be criminal........
Well I decided, next time we talk about Religion I am gonna quote the entire Bible.
That would keep me on Elite for a year !!!!
I win
Funny I got my 5 Star rating (100/100) by just making meaningful posts with substance it's not that hard to do. Hell you can get to 4 stars just by logging in every day and only actually posting once and a while as long as your posts aren't spam or deliberate flame bait. I find this thread rather humorous in the fact that by just doing the right thing high ratings are accomplished without even trying but still people will try to cheat their way there. Just make every post with substance and not spam and you'll be at 5 stars before you even realize you're there. So far all I see in this thread is Spam. A good way to make your rating go down and NOT up.
Bren
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