StarCraft Lingo: Abbreviations

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if i have to explain the joke for you then you don't deserve to know

 

Just remembered another one.

Expansion/expand: Expo

 

expo is a weird one... theres no o in expand and the o in expansion is in the suffix

 

haha expand is like organic chemistry.

You don't say you are going to orga class, you say you are going to orgo. (haha if you are a science major, you would know what I mean).

So you wouldn't call it expa, eh? hehe ^_^

 

I've seen people use expo a lot.  That one's quite common I think.

There is no "y" or "ie" in overlord, yet people call overlords ovy, ovie, or ovies.

 

i know... they are suffixes

 

If the "y" in "ovy" is a suffix, then would the "o" in "expo" not be one as well?

Anyway, I have never heard anyone call it any other way.

 

I think "ovie" exists as a sort of endearment towards the unit, combined with the natural gravitation towards "ee" sounds.

"Expo" does annoy me, it feels like it is short for "exposition." I use "exp," which seems to work fine, since there aren't any RPG elements to confuse it with.

 

ovie reminds me of ovaries

 

Didn't see one for Reavers:

Reavs

I've never heard of Cors but I know them as Sairs

Guardians: Guards

I only ever called DTs well.. uhm. DTs and templars were temps.

Med(s) for Medic, not sure if you had that one.

Drop(s) for Dropship.

BC for Battlecruiser

Vessel for Science Vessel

Never heard of Goths, knew them as Gols or AA

Vult(s) for Vultures

and pretty sure you covered everything else.

Oh yeah forgot. Spore and Sunken for Spore Colony and Sunken Colony

 

haha if they implement that ranking system for each unit... exp might mean experience then

 

immortals will never shrug off that 'goon' image

so when you play scII and people tell you to build goons you click immortals

 

haha that might happen. i can't think of an example right now, but that's so true sometimes.

 

Speaking of which, I don't like Immortals. To me, they just look like toss goliaths. I really preferred the more traditional look of goons =/. Maybe it's just me (and everyone says that) though.