Maiden

[Malken]

What is the male version of maiden? I want to be that with my next character.

[LauraMars]

Instead of maiden, we should just use colt and filly.

[spawnloser]

Who's up for playing a 'gelding' ?

[Malken]

What is the male version of maiden? I want to be that with my next character.

I'm just going to go with "menmaiden" as a word.

the tall, muscular menmaiden.

[musashi]

I always figured "youth" was more or less the male version of "maiden" since youth is often used to describe a young male. Lad would probably do it too.

[Salt Merchant]

What is the male version of maiden? I want to be that with my next character.

Most accurately, probably "virgin bachelor".

[Gagula]

What is the male version of maiden? I want to be that with my next character.

Most accurately, probably "virgin bachelor".

The tall muscular virgin bachelor has arrived from the north.

A prostitute has arrived from the north.

At a bar, the tall muscular man says in sirish: "Hay....he's no virigin!"

[brytta.leofa]

What is the male version of maiden? I want to be that with my next character.

I'm afraid the real answer is that male virginity has never had enough cultural significance to warrant its own word.

Except, apparently, in Czechoslovakia.

[Gimfalisette]

Except, apparently, in Czechoslovakia.

I can't remember whose username that is! What's the word again?

[brytta.leofa]

Except, apparently, in Czechoslovakia.

I can't remember whose username that is! What's the word again?

Here we go:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/panic#Czech

[FantasyWriter]

the young, toussle-headed panic

[Gimfalisette]

Here we go:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/panic#Czech

That's right! It was one of our Czech players who chuckled about that here on the forums.

[brytta.leofa]

That's right! It was one of our Czech players who chuckled about that here on the forums.

Yam, I think.

[Gimfalisette]

Yam is totally not Czech! It may have been Elgiva, or um...that other cool guy whose username I don't remember now and who I haven't seen around in a while.

[Pantoufle]

Except, apparently, in Czechoslovakia.

No such country, mate.

I know, I'm a terrible derailer. Still. It had to be said.

[spawnloser]

It was Elgiva.

[Shalooonsh]

Except, apparently, in Czechoslovakia.

No such country, mate.

I know, I'm a terrible derailer. Still. It had to be said.

Uh, not really.

[Prodikus]

From the OED (You down with OED? Ya, you know me!):

Both maid and maiden, from the earliest records onwards, seem to have had the competing senses of 'young female' and 'virgin (of any age)'. Because of this ambiguity, they have tended to be replaced in the sense 'young female' by words such as girl and periphrastic uses such as young lady and young woman. Consequently, both words have generally been more commonly used in the sense of 'virgin': maid now principally in the compound OLD MAID n., maiden in a large number of compound and adjectival uses. A third major sense 'servant' was also taken over from maiden by maid, in which it has had greater currency, partly perhaps because of the large number of compounds such as CHAMBERMAID n., HOUSEMAID n., and NURSEMAID n. Except in this specific sense, maid has never developed the variety of adjectival and compound uses found for maiden, even though the use of the uncompounded words shows an almost complete semantic overlap in the early period.

[path]

I love it when we talk about this. Maiden is stupid.

I too still want boy and girl back in sdescs. If people are too trusting of the young, then they clearly aren't getting the game. But they would..soon enough.

[Ampere]

I love it when we talk about this. Maiden is stupid.

I too still want boy and girl back in sdescs. If people are too trusting of the young, then they clearly aren't getting the game. But they would..soon enough.

I doubt the restriction was instituted to curb thievery, so much as pedophilia.

[Wasteland Raider]

It was, in the words of Sanvean, to curb people playing eight-year-old sorcerers who expected clemency from other PCs because they were so youuuung and didn't know what they were dooooing.

[Manhattan]

It was, in the words of Sanvean, to curb people playing eight-year-old sorcerers who expected clemency from other PCs because they were so youuuung and didn't know what they were dooooing.

So...why don't they just reject the little girl sorcerer in the app process??

[Synthesis]

It was, in the words of Sanvean, to curb people playing eight-year-old sorcerers who expected clemency from other PCs because they were so youuuung and didn't know what they were dooooing.

Haha.

I would reason in exactly the opposite direction:  if they rolled an eight-year old, they probably rolled really shitty stats, but started with the same newbie coins as anyone else.  That's what you call a Zalanthan free lunch.

[Voular]

I just figure "maiden" to be an extreme of a certain image you conjur up in your mind's eye. Same as "brute". It helps you vizualise certain characteristics about that PC/NPC. Same as mutant or breed. When I see a half-elf with "breed" in their sdesc I think of a mangy sort of half-elf. In any case..

This is what you get when you google image BRUTE:



And this is what I got from maiden, when you exlcuse iron maiden and the porn:





Now. When you see a maiden sdesc. What are you going to see.. a "dainty young woman" perhaps. Or are you going to read out VIRGIN at the end? Just to be a d**che-c*ck in your mind? Just saying.

[Delstro]

Well, when my wife thinks of maiden, she thinks of an upperclass woman from the middle ages.