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Did Bioware employees have bad memory?

SheikhSheikh Member Posts: 26
edited August 2013 in Off-Topic
Someone read Carolls book or whatever and rmemembered something like "Frabgerous day, Kaloo kaley!" whereas it was actually "O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!"
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  • ajwzajwz Member Posts: 4,122
    Orwell?
    Strange, I don't remember that line in 1984 or Animal Farm? :p
  • SheikhSheikh Member Posts: 26
    ajwz said:

    Orwell?
    Strange, I don't remember that line in 1984 or Animal Farm? :p

    Oh yeah it was Lewis Caroll, fixed.

  • FinneousPJFinneousPJ Member Posts: 6,455
    Ever heard of plagiarism? It's supposed to be a nod, not a copy :/
  • sarevok57sarevok57 Member Posts: 6,002
    there is quite a bit of small plagiarism in bg1, some of shar-teel's lines are straight from the movie predator, you know that one with AH-nold in it who says; get to the CHOPPA :)
  • FinneousPJFinneousPJ Member Posts: 6,455
    Maybe they drew the line at literature :D
  • DeeDee Member Posts: 10,447
    edited August 2013
    Alora says "Come on, people, now! Smile on your brother! Everybody get together! Try to love one another right now."

    Didn't hear it for the first time in-game until, I think, three days ago.
  • TJ_HookerTJ_Hooker Member Posts: 2,438
    FinneousPJ said:

    Ever heard of plagiarism? It's supposed to be a nod, not a copy :/

    I'm pretty sure that taking single lines doesn't count as plagiarism. Also, I believe Carroll's works are old enough to be public domain.
  • Night_WatchNight_Watch Member Posts: 514
    Was that a walrus and the carpenter reference? 'Calooh Callie no work today we're cabbages and kings!' There's also some Shakespeare in the game. I'm pretty sure Khalid nods at King Harry with a 'once more unto the breach dear friends! (Or close the wall up with our bhaalspawn dead :-)
  • MalicronMalicron Member Posts: 629
    Night_Watch said:

    There's also some Shakespeare in the game. I'm pretty sure Khalid nods at King Harry with a 'once more unto the breach dear friends!

    I think that's a CHARNAME voice set, actually. BG2, if memory serves.
  • DrugarDrugar Member Posts: 1,566
    Malicron said:

    Night_Watch said:

    There's also some Shakespeare in the game. I'm pretty sure Khalid nods at King Harry with a 'once more unto the breach dear friends!

    I think that's a CHARNAME voice set, actually. BG2, if memory serves.
    I seem to remember it's Garrick's battlecry.
    Would make sense for him to quote the Bard himself.
  • MalicronMalicron Member Posts: 629
    Drugar said:

    Malicron said:

    Night_Watch said:

    There's also some Shakespeare in the game. I'm pretty sure Khalid nods at King Harry with a 'once more unto the breach dear friends!

    I think that's a CHARNAME voice set, actually. BG2, if memory serves.
    I seem to remember it's Garrick's battlecry.
    Would make sense for him to quote the Bard himself.
    Oh hells, as I think about it, it might be a NWN2 voice set I'm thinking of. Oops.
  • ZanathKariashiZanathKariashi Member Posts: 2,869
    There's a LOT of song, movie, and story references in NPC dialog.
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