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Aurum means gold in latin

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Digital Messiah
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#21 - 2011-10-06 16:25:33 UTC
Skaz wrote:
Digital Messiah wrote:
au·rum
noun Chemistry .
gold. Symbol: Au

Let the conspiracy theories begin! Also for introducing a mechanic where the biggest fear is gold ammo / ships. Why would CCP choose a name such as aurum. Just wondering if CCP is running out of names like how they name their expansions. Or purposely wanted to fuel the infamous EVE-O conspirators fire.

On a side note, I like the name itself even though I never plan to purchase Aurum. Unless of course they reintroduce some of the old backgrounds like concord, that news one, and the pirate faction, which were awesome. Or cool masks... and head gear to perhaps.


More likely they chose it like they chose the ISK name.

ISK is the international FOREX label for the Icelandic Króna.

Before Iceland had a decimal currency it had the Króna and a sub unit called Aurar. With 1 Króna = 100 Aurar

Aur is a word for "money" in Icelandic. As in "Ég á ekki stakan aur" as in "I don't have a penny left"

Edit:
Dammit, didn't see the Dev linking to wiki...foiled again in looking smart on the forums!

You do realize this thread is about the word AURUM not the abbreviation ISK, right? And you do know that using a word with a Latin base to one with a root of old Norse are also completely different. So trying to say Aurar is the reason they choose to make it Aurum, makes about as much sense as most of the conspiracies we see on the forums. Just saying What?

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War Kitten
Panda McLegion
#22 - 2011-10-06 16:35:48 UTC
Digital Messiah wrote:
Skaz wrote:
Digital Messiah wrote:
au·rum
noun Chemistry .
gold. Symbol: Au

Let the conspiracy theories begin! Also for introducing a mechanic where the biggest fear is gold ammo / ships. Why would CCP choose a name such as aurum. Just wondering if CCP is running out of names like how they name their expansions. Or purposely wanted to fuel the infamous EVE-O conspirators fire.

On a side note, I like the name itself even though I never plan to purchase Aurum. Unless of course they reintroduce some of the old backgrounds like concord, that news one, and the pirate faction, which were awesome. Or cool masks... and head gear to perhaps.


More likely they chose it like they chose the ISK name.

ISK is the international FOREX label for the Icelandic Króna.

Before Iceland had a decimal currency it had the Króna and a sub unit called Aurar. With 1 Króna = 100 Aurar

Aur is a word for "money" in Icelandic. As in "Ég á ekki stakan aur" as in "I don't have a penny left"

Edit:
Dammit, didn't see the Dev linking to wiki...foiled again in looking smart on the forums!

You do realize this thread is about the word AURUM not the abbreviation ISK, right? And you do know that using a word with a Latin base to one with a root of old Norse are also completely different. So trying to say Aurar is the reason they choose to make it Aurum, makes about as much sense as most of the conspiracies we see on the forums. Just saying What?


You do realize that anyone who paid attention for 5 minutes in chemistry class would've come to the same brilliant deduction it took you two months to piece together?

Au on the periodic chart of elements is gold. Au is short for Aurum.

In other breaking news, Caldari ships are named after birds. Ornithological Conspiracy? It must be!

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Digital Messiah
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#23 - 2011-10-06 16:38:26 UTC
I was simply stating the ironic fact that everyone was worried about gold items. And yet they named their currency gold in Latin. Also, I appear to be the only person so far to post this. So I figured I would give the conspirators something to chat about. In the end do I really care? No, not really. I just hope people have fun with this.

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Trotula
#24 - 2011-10-06 16:41:28 UTC
I'll always equate Aurum with how much CCP's CEO Hilmar suffers from the Dunning-Kruger effect.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
War Kitten
Panda McLegion
#25 - 2011-10-06 17:19:38 UTC
Digital Messiah wrote:
I was simply stating the ironic fact that everyone was worried about gold items. And yet they named their currency gold in Latin. Also, I appear to be the only person so far to post this. So I figured I would give the conspirators something to chat about. In the end do I really care? No, not really. I just hope people have fun with this.


It's not really ironic if you're the only one who didn't get it until now.

Posting the direct translation of one word into another language and then declaring conspiracy isn't really post-worthy, so yeah, you're the first to do it.

Fun is being had with your observation, no worries. :)

I don't judge people by their race, religion, color, size, age, gender, or ethnicity. I judge them by their grammar, spelling, syntax, punctuation, clarity of expression, and logical consistency.
Digital Messiah
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#26 - 2011-10-06 17:26:17 UTC
War Kitten wrote:
Digital Messiah wrote:
I was simply stating the ironic fact that everyone was worried about gold items. And yet they named their currency gold in Latin. Also, I appear to be the only person so far to post this. So I figured I would give the conspirators something to chat about. In the end do I really care? No, not really. I just hope people have fun with this.


It's not really ironic if you're the only one who didn't get it until now.

Posting the direct translation of one word into another language and then declaring conspiracy isn't really post-worthy, so yeah, you're the first to do it.

Fun is being had with your observation, no worries. :)

Big smile fun time Lol

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KhaelaMensha Khaine
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#27 - 2011-10-06 19:57:27 UTC
Aurum is indeed Latin. Latin is a dead language. Nobody speaks it anymore. Interesting marketing to name a currency after a dead language! It should be sold in units of roman numerals Smile
Myfanwy Heimdal
Heimdal Freight and Manufacture Inc
#28 - 2011-10-06 20:01:29 UTC
Skaz wrote:


More likely they chose it like they chose the ISK name.

ISK is the international FOREX label for the Icelandic Króna.

Before Iceland had a decimal currency it had the Króna and a sub unit called Aurar. With 1 Króna = 100 Aurar

Aur is a word for "money" in Icelandic. As in "Ég á ekki stakan aur" as in "I don't have a penny left"

Edit:
Dammit, didn't see the Dev linking to wiki...foiled again in looking smart on the forums!



AUR is also Welsh for Gold. Then again, there's quite a bit of Scandinavian in Welsh and, of course, Icelandic.

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mkint
#29 - 2011-10-06 20:05:40 UTC
Was hoping this thread would be dead by now, but since it's not... Yes, AUR is named after Gold in Latin, even if it's named after the icelandic coins that are named after gold. Also (read the wiki) Krona = crown in latin, as in "money issued by the king." So the hell what. It just means CCP sucks at naming things (surprise surprise)

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Digital Messiah
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#30 - 2011-10-06 20:15:34 UTC
mkint wrote:
Was hoping this thread would be dead by now, but since it's not... Yes, AUR is named after Gold in Latin, even if it's named after the icelandic coins that are named after gold. Also (read the wiki) Krona = crown in latin, as in "money issued by the king." So the hell what. It just means CCP sucks at naming things (surprise surprise)

you had 123 likes, i made it 124 so you reminded me less of sesame street.

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