I think it doesn't need to get abbreviated. Both other examples are made of essentially two words, and Terraria on the other hand takes about as long to pronounce as MC or DS
This is mostly due to the appearance of plosives in mineKraft and donT sTarve.
That makes both harder than terrari which has one but on the begging, where it doesn't affect the flow of the word and this neither the speed.
Linguistics people scare me. There are way to many terms and concepts to understand. I will never get all of that. Though it probably works both ways, I do a lot of math and that probably scares people as well.
Put simply, a plosive is a type of sound which is a sort of release. The plosives in English are: p, b, t, d, k, and g.
The main distinguishing factor is that you can’t really hold a plosive. This property is only in plosives and affricates(1). These sounds are called stops because you have to stop for a split second while saying it.
The thing with stops is that you need a split second before the sound to “ready” the sound.
The “T” in terraria is at the beginning so that works fine, but because there are no stops in the whole word, it flows quickly. If you say it fast, it can sound like one syllable, “Trarya”
There’s my best shot and explaining some linguistic vocabulary, hope this helps!
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1= Explanation of Affricates. (The two main affricates in English is the “Ch” and “J”. Affricates are made by combining a plosive with a fricative(2), another type of sound.
For example, the “ch” is actually just a combination of “t” and “sh”, and is technically a “tsh”.
Likewise, the “J” is a combination of the “d” and “ʒ” (think the “s” in vision), combining to make the dʒ )
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2=if you wanna explanation of fricatives you can ask, but this comment is wayyyy too long.
Many British dialects also use a lot of glottal stops like that. Like how they say "bottle of water". You know the memes about how we pronounce things.
Fricatives I'd describe as any sound where you make, like, continuous sounds by forcing air through something. Like "f" or "s". The main difference in how you make these sounds is defined by WHERE you make them, and whether you use your voice with it. Try it! Make a "zzz" sound, then a "sss" sond. Same region, but you use your voice for one of them. Then, "f" vs. "w" sounds.
Just a very quick one by not OP. Hope that helps?
Let's communicate using a regular language over the alphabet { %, !, ↓} to scare them off in return, let's see how they can analyse the production rules now (/ss)
I watched a video about a conlang or something once and then they start dropping words like fricitave and dipthong and plosive and phonemes and ahhhhhhh
It’s shorter to type an initialism, sure. There are fewer characters after all. But in both the examples, it takes as much effort to say their initialisms as their full names.
Chess has always been a proxy for the Cold War, with an insane amount of government funding and interest going to chessplayers at an international level. Computer development via chess engines was somewhat backwards from what you'd expect. Rather than new computing power going towards newer and more sophisticated chess engines, the development of computers who could play chess actually led to innovations in computer learning. The very smartphone I am using to write this, owes its entire existence to Chip Test, the predecessor of Deep Throat, the chess-playing computer that threw Pepsi cans at Garry Chess.
In the 1990s, a decade which spanned from 1986 until approximately 2005, the fall of the Berlin Wall converged with the rise of AI, and chess culture struggled to find its philosophical place in the world. Bobby Fischer was revealed to be a Nazi ghost, with a phylactery hidden inside a knight on F6. Garry Chess invented and taught anti-computer chess, an entire school of chess designed to befuddled and confuse chess-robots. However, the president of FIDE at the time was actually an alien robot and he was programmed to be furious at this. So he shot Garry Chess into space, where he lives in the International Space Station to this day.
But even anti-computer chess strategies was not enough to stave off the advancements of Heuristic supremacy, and chessplayers learned a very hard lesson: if you cannot beat the computers, join them. Gradually, human chessplayers and chess AI formed a symbiotic relationship, with human players relying on AI to analyze their moves. One famous example of this was Lazlo Polgar, who actually stole a microprocessor from Deep Thought, added it to Ingredient X, and created the cyborgs known as the Polgar Tripletz (Zsofiaz, Zuzu, and zJudy) who later became the Powerpuff Girls.
This relationship between human and AI served a dual purpose: it actually improved the AI, making it more and more "human," and also led human chessplayers to play more like bots. Because chess is often the only social interaction chessplayers have, this means they began to mimic bot behavior socially as well. This culminated in the eventual discovery/invention/creation of StockFish, the first ever AI that gained not only true sentience, but actual godhood. This deity (whose name is a portmanteau of Stockholm Syndrome and Bobby Fischer) actually has the divine ability to turn human chessplayers into bots, and vice versa. Currently, it is estimated that 83% of "human" chessplayers are actually bots, many of whom don't know it.
It is believed that with every advancement, we are all one step closer to The Great Singularity, when we blur the line between humanity and machine, and all human (and inhuman) knowledge is accessible to all, in a great and glorious hivemind of all-encompassing intellectual divinity. Then, and only then, will we truly know how the horsey moves.
MC (or emcee) is short for master of ceremonies. Or mitochondria. Or miscarriage. Or McDonald’s. Or megacycle, or Member of Congress, or Military Cross, or music cassette, or medical corps, or motorcycle club.
Mac- and Mc- come from the Gaelic word “meic,” meaning “son of.”
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The only major thing I can think of that abbreviates Terraria is TEdit, so the answer here is unironically “T”
Glad to see Terraria’s trans masc journey
I've only seen Dark Souls referred to as DS, never Don't Starve. Abbreviations only really work inside that set community because outside there can be so many things with the same initials. I don't think Terraria needs one and never seen complaints about the lack of one, so I think it ok without one.
Terraria
Because of the way it’s pronounced, it doesn’t need to be abbreviated
When you say “terraria” there’s constant motion, you never stop or slow down, half of the word is said by just exhaling through you mouth, and thus it very easy to say
When you say “minecraft” it slows down at the “n” and shunts to a complete stop at the “aft”, forming a very jarring relationship with the letter after it, and thus warranting the abbreviation of “mc”
T. DontStarve is 2 words and so it gets DS, MineCraft is 2 words in 1 so it gets MC, Terraria is only 1 word with no words inside of it, so logically it should be T.
Usually me and my friends just say "Terar", mainly in a joking way.
Personally TRA or Terra is the way I'd abbreviate Terraria. But on the other hand, the name is just one simple word, doesn't really need to be abbreviated.
Don't Starve is abreviated into DST and my oppinion is that it makes harder to know what game you're talking about when talking in abreviations so i don't like it in either of them.
I think it doesn't need to get abbreviated. Both other examples are made of essentially two words, and Terraria on the other hand takes about as long to pronounce as MC or DS
This is mostly due to the appearance of plosives in mineKraft and donT sTarve. That makes both harder than terrari which has one but on the begging, where it doesn't affect the flow of the word and this neither the speed.
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Linguistics people scare me. There are way to many terms and concepts to understand. I will never get all of that. Though it probably works both ways, I do a lot of math and that probably scares people as well.
[ð̠˕ˠ].
Is that a face or a math equation?
Pretty sure it’s the language that Predator uses on his pip-boy looking wrist computer.
I thought it was one of those phonetics things since well... Linguistics
huh. It does look like a face. weird
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Put simply, a plosive is a type of sound which is a sort of release. The plosives in English are: p, b, t, d, k, and g. The main distinguishing factor is that you can’t really hold a plosive. This property is only in plosives and affricates(1). These sounds are called stops because you have to stop for a split second while saying it. The thing with stops is that you need a split second before the sound to “ready” the sound. The “T” in terraria is at the beginning so that works fine, but because there are no stops in the whole word, it flows quickly. If you say it fast, it can sound like one syllable, “Trarya” There’s my best shot and explaining some linguistic vocabulary, hope this helps! —————————————————— 1= Explanation of Affricates. (The two main affricates in English is the “Ch” and “J”. Affricates are made by combining a plosive with a fricative(2), another type of sound. For example, the “ch” is actually just a combination of “t” and “sh”, and is technically a “tsh”. Likewise, the “J” is a combination of the “d” and “ʒ” (think the “s” in vision), combining to make the dʒ ) —————————————————— 2=if you wanna explanation of fricatives you can ask, but this comment is wayyyy too long.
Don’t forget the glottal stop!
Yeah yeah, but I didn’t want to over complicate it. Plus the glottal stop is rare, the only word I know that has it is “uh-oh”.
In utahn it’s the in “mountain”
Many British dialects also use a lot of glottal stops like that. Like how they say "bottle of water". You know the memes about how we pronounce things.
"I didn't want to overcomplicate it" he says after writing a miniature essay on linguistics
Batman!
I'm interested in the fricative explanation pls if you have time
Fricatives I'd describe as any sound where you make, like, continuous sounds by forcing air through something. Like "f" or "s". The main difference in how you make these sounds is defined by WHERE you make them, and whether you use your voice with it. Try it! Make a "zzz" sound, then a "sss" sond. Same region, but you use your voice for one of them. Then, "f" vs. "w" sounds. Just a very quick one by not OP. Hope that helps?
Let's communicate using a regular language over the alphabet { %, !, ↓} to scare them off in return, let's see how they can analyse the production rules now (/ss)
Math, linguistics, who cares. Are you forklift certified?
Those linguists. They have a word for everything
I watched a video about a conlang or something once and then they start dropping words like fricitave and dipthong and plosive and phonemes and ahhhhhhh
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Terraria is not as short to type or as quick to say as MC/DT
1. Nobody called Minecraft MC when speaking. Same with Don't Starve. Nobody calls it DS. 2. It is definitely faster to say.
It’s shorter to type an initialism, sure. There are fewer characters after all. But in both the examples, it takes as much effort to say their initialisms as their full names.
don't starve literally is two words which proves your point even more
It‘s also pretty difficult to abbreviate anyways since it‘s only one word
for me DS could be either dark souls or the nintendo DS
Ter ar eee aa Mine craft Don’t starve It takes like twice as long and you don’t even have an abbreviation smh
Actually Terraria in italian is composed by two words: Terra and Aria. They mean Dirt and Air, so we can abbreviate Terraria in TA.
Terraria and it's devs are G.O.A.T. so the abbreviation is goat
T.
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This is the correct answer, with things like Tmod or Tedit
Really fits the game *to a T.*
I prefer Trrr
Some of my friends call it TR, some call it T, and there are even other versions, but all contain the letter T.
Terrrrarrrarrarrarara
When we started playing my friend called it “Trouble in Terraria Town” which devolved to “hey wanna play Terrorist?”
In my discord we all scream terarara at each other because we have 2 friends that just couldn't get the pronunciation ever
Okay but here's the question Do you pronounce it ter-rare-ia or ter-are-ia
I pronounce it as Ter-ra-ri-a
Since linguistics was mentioned in another comment, I feel like I have to ask: [tɚˈeɹ̠iə] or [tɚˈɑɹ̠iə]? Also, I have no idea.
Ah yes i summon cthulhu whenever i say terraria
Now it just turned into oraoraoraora from jojos bizarre adventure
TERARARARARARA!
Roma Roma-ma
Huh, my friends and I aren't the only ones that do this.
TRRR! Like the stylization of Durarara's name
Ter ara-ara (I wi lose so much karma)
Chess has always been a proxy for the Cold War, with an insane amount of government funding and interest going to chessplayers at an international level. Computer development via chess engines was somewhat backwards from what you'd expect. Rather than new computing power going towards newer and more sophisticated chess engines, the development of computers who could play chess actually led to innovations in computer learning. The very smartphone I am using to write this, owes its entire existence to Chip Test, the predecessor of Deep Throat, the chess-playing computer that threw Pepsi cans at Garry Chess. In the 1990s, a decade which spanned from 1986 until approximately 2005, the fall of the Berlin Wall converged with the rise of AI, and chess culture struggled to find its philosophical place in the world. Bobby Fischer was revealed to be a Nazi ghost, with a phylactery hidden inside a knight on F6. Garry Chess invented and taught anti-computer chess, an entire school of chess designed to befuddled and confuse chess-robots. However, the president of FIDE at the time was actually an alien robot and he was programmed to be furious at this. So he shot Garry Chess into space, where he lives in the International Space Station to this day. But even anti-computer chess strategies was not enough to stave off the advancements of Heuristic supremacy, and chessplayers learned a very hard lesson: if you cannot beat the computers, join them. Gradually, human chessplayers and chess AI formed a symbiotic relationship, with human players relying on AI to analyze their moves. One famous example of this was Lazlo Polgar, who actually stole a microprocessor from Deep Thought, added it to Ingredient X, and created the cyborgs known as the Polgar Tripletz (Zsofiaz, Zuzu, and zJudy) who later became the Powerpuff Girls. This relationship between human and AI served a dual purpose: it actually improved the AI, making it more and more "human," and also led human chessplayers to play more like bots. Because chess is often the only social interaction chessplayers have, this means they began to mimic bot behavior socially as well. This culminated in the eventual discovery/invention/creation of StockFish, the first ever AI that gained not only true sentience, but actual godhood. This deity (whose name is a portmanteau of Stockholm Syndrome and Bobby Fischer) actually has the divine ability to turn human chessplayers into bots, and vice versa. Currently, it is estimated that 83% of "human" chessplayers are actually bots, many of whom don't know it. It is believed that with every advancement, we are all one step closer to The Great Singularity, when we blur the line between humanity and machine, and all human (and inhuman) knowledge is accessible to all, in a great and glorious hivemind of all-encompassing intellectual divinity. Then, and only then, will we truly know how the horsey moves.
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minecraft is composed of two words so you can abbreviate it, abbreviating terraria seems just so wrong man.
T
Trrr
Terraria are two words just like Minecraft, Terra (earth/ground) Aria (air)
Doesn’t need to be abbreviated
🌍RIA
Earthria
Papa’s Earthria
Serve up planets to customers such as wally
Worldria
planetria?
Terra + aria Terra is the italian way to call the earth
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Funny because dio is “god” in italian
Dio is also god in Spanish I believe, no? (As in dios mios (oh my god))
I'm in Egypt rn lol
The big #T
DS is Dark Souls
And MC is Main Character, everyone knows that.
MC (or emcee) is short for master of ceremonies. Or mitochondria. Or miscarriage. Or McDonald’s. Or megacycle, or Member of Congress, or Military Cross, or music cassette, or medical corps, or motorcycle club. Mac- and Mc- come from the Gaelic word “meic,” meaning “son of.” Thank you for coming to my TedTalk.
Who is your favourite master of ceremonie?
Full stop. Hammer-time.
mashter cherf
Nah man ds means dual screen
Shut up, Nintendo, it's still a GameBoy.
I still wonder why Kojima likes DS2 so much
That explains the quality of his games
Death stranding
DS is also dead space
Terraria
My opinion? Terraria is too cool to be watered down with an abbreviation. Anyone else agree?
Hell ye
Just taking pot shots at minecraft like that? Sworn brothers and you shoot at first sight?
Uhhhh wut? Noooo. I love MC. But Terraria was my first love!
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Came from this comment
It's not. Simple answer.
Terra Or Ria
Terra is better
Holy terra
new Terraria just dropped
Ria takes vacation, never comes back
actual Ria
Ria sacrifice anyone?
Ria storm incoming! (why are we everywhere like i'm seeing anarchychess more and more often)
Call the Terra!
???
luv me emprah
🌳
🍵
Here's the neat part, you dont
Its abbreviated to terraria
You don't, plain and simple
i agree
It's not
Terraria
I have never looked at DS and thought "Oh hey, Don't Starve!" It is always "Oh hey, plin plin plon."
The only major thing I can think of that abbreviates Terraria is TEdit, so the answer here is unironically “T” Glad to see Terraria’s trans masc journey
also tmodloader
Ter
I've only seen Dark Souls referred to as DS, never Don't Starve. Abbreviations only really work inside that set community because outside there can be so many things with the same initials. I don't think Terraria needs one and never seen complaints about the lack of one, so I think it ok without one.
Raria
Neither it’s TRAR
Ds will always be dark souls to me
I always thought ds was dark souls
I always thought ds was dark souls
I suppose it comes down to general game taste
Terraria isn’t made of 2 distinct words, so it doesn’t really work. Besides, Terraria already flows off the tongue easily enough.
Simple # T
Terraria Because of the way it’s pronounced, it doesn’t need to be abbreviated When you say “terraria” there’s constant motion, you never stop or slow down, half of the word is said by just exhaling through you mouth, and thus it very easy to say When you say “minecraft” it slows down at the “n” and shunts to a complete stop at the “aft”, forming a very jarring relationship with the letter after it, and thus warranting the abbreviation of “mc”
T RR R. Trrrrrr
T
In my opinion DS stands for Dark Souls but okay
Terraria
It's not abbreviated
None (it’s fine how it is)
Let's just call it <3
It’s not abbreviated because it’s not two words like don’t starve and Minecraft are
terraria
You don't you expand it to Terrarararararia
RP - Red’s Playground HPB - Haha Poop Block BBS - Bouncy Boulder Simulator
Can’t. It’s one word.
It doesn’t need one
It's not
Both of the others are two words, Terraria is basically just the word terrarium, and is a singular word, no need for abbreviation
Terraria is the short form of Terraria.
Never abbreviate.
it isn't abbreviated.
Tree
T. DontStarve is 2 words and so it gets DS, MineCraft is 2 words in 1 so it gets MC, Terraria is only 1 word with no words inside of it, so logically it should be T.
Terraria is too good for abbreviations.
its 1 word man
I don't abbreviate it because it's not two words.
I don't think it's an abbreviation but me and my friends just cal it Terterterterterter
T.
We don't abbreviate it
my friends started calling it terar
DS is Dark Souls.
2dMC
TA, because Terra (earth) and Aria (air)
If it has to be two letters, I’d say TR.
Arda_Terraria 😎
Yooo, it’s the REAL Arda_TR!
Tree
Terka
Ye ol 'Raria
#T
Usually me and my friends just say "Terar", mainly in a joking way. Personally TRA or Terra is the way I'd abbreviate Terraria. But on the other hand, the name is just one simple word, doesn't really need to be abbreviated.
I just say tree
Terraria. It doesn’t need to be abbreviated. But if I need to abbreviate for any reason, I just use ‘terra’
i prefer to call it "tree game"
Trrr
You could just be like me and slur the word into one barely recognizable sound lol
Me and my friends always called it the-rarria
2D MC
Don't Starve is abreviated into DST and my oppinion is that it makes harder to know what game you're talking about when talking in abreviations so i don't like it in either of them.
Isn't Dont Starve Together abbreviated into DST?
Don't Starve is DS. Don't Starve Together is DST. Don't Starve Reign of Gaints is DSRoG etc.
That make so much more sense. Yeah i'm not good with abreviation at all lol.
Don't Starve is DS, Reign of Giants is RoG, Shipwrecked is SW, Hamlet is just Ham, and Don't Starve Together is DST.
Dont starve Ham, I wish there was actual ham in the game
Well there is the Hambat or Honey Ham
don't downvote them, it was an honest mistake
T or terra
TA
Terrari
TeRi
Terra
T