I have always been more of a Periphery Savage, or at the least an Inner Sphere Barbarian, but the Clans have always confused me.
One particular point of interest that always made me scratch my head and go huh?, is the proliferation of words in the clan dictionary if you will that have been shortened. Words like batchall, short for battle-challenge, or Ristar, short for rising star. Even the every day common use words, Quiaff, Quineg, Neg, etc. I just never understood how a society that so abhorred contractions that they completely cut them out of their speech would so flippantly fling terms like Quiaff around, which, when you think about it is just a contraction....
Not looking to pick a fight, just looking for some thoughts on this, and maybe an explanation.I suppose that a "new" expansion to the game and an almost alien civilization had to have some kind of special lingo along with it.