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[Son of the Serpent]

well, i was taking a normal figure of speech "double entendra" and giving a letter often used for an unspecified number "n", the suffixe "le", and taking away the word "double." if that helps.

n'l entendra? I am Spanish. I guess my level of written English is enough good but anytimes I can't understand any expressions, more when they are too colloquial, and pig Latin is criminal.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

For the benefit of those who are not intimately versed in obsolescent French-into-English loan expressions:

A double entendre is a figure of speech or a particular way of wording that is devised to be understood in two ways, having a double meaning.

Most commonly known in the Carry On series of comedy films, where something would be said that had both an overtly sexual and completely innocent meaning.

 

[Oofta]

To my knowledge, the dark elves of Scandnavian mythology weren't evel dark-skined. That's a Gygax thing as far as I know.

From wikipedia:

In Norse mythology, Dökkálfar ("Dark Elves")[a] and Ljósálfar ("Light Elves")Dökkálfar and Ljósálfar - Wikipedia are two contrasting types of elves; the dark elves dwell within the earth and have a dark complexion, while the light elves live in Álfheimr, and are "fairer than the sun to look at".​

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EDIT: somehow I didn't see the other responses before I posted. Turkey overdose? Who knows. In any case, I always assumed this is where the idea was taken from, perhaps incorrectly. The origin (or whether it was even really part of the core mythos) has been lost to time.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

From wiktionary:

From Middle English elf, elfe, from Old English ælf (“incubus, elf”), from Proto-Germanic *albiz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂elbʰós (“white”).

The original meaning of "elf" was something like "pale-skin". Then a dark-elf would be a etimologic contradiction.

Araks and siths are canon in Ravenloft. (sith isn't a original word by Star Wars, but other fae creature from folclore.

 

[Hussar]

Again, really, the whole black/white thing is just one problem with drow. The whole femdom men hating dominatrixes is going to be a VERY tough sell. It's not like you can point to the Prose Edda as a source for that image.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

There is a easy solution for the end of potential controversy about the darskin drows. Let's use a positive discrimination fee of dark skin characters, some drow and no-drows, in the side of the good guys.

And let's remember there aren only albine drows infiltrated among people of the surface, but also insidious corruptors, spies (and 3.5 prestige class) on the surface.

 

[Bohandas]

n'l entendra? I am Spanish. I guess my level of written English is enough good but anytimes I can't understand any expressions, more when they are too colloquial, and pig Latin is criminal.

I speak english natively and I'm not sure what the hell he meant by "n'le entendra" either. Its likely a typo where he meant to say "double entendre" but that's one hell of a typo.

 

[Bohandas]

Again, really, the whole black/white thing is just one problem with drow. The whole femdom men hating dominatrixes is going to be a VERY tough sell. It's not like you can point to the Prose Edda as a source for that image.

It's not like you can point to any of the eddas as a source for any of this beyond the existence of the phrase "dark elf"

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Again, really, the whole black/white thing is just one problem with drow. The whole femdom men hating dominatrixes is going to be a VERY tough sell. It's not like you can point to the Prose Edda as a source for that image.

Easy fixed if you use Jarlaxe and his Bregan D'aerthe. There aren't any problems which won't go away with a bit of forethought.

There is a easy solution for the end of potential controversy about the darskin drows. Let's use a positive discrimination fee of dark skin characters, some drow and no-drows, in the side of the good guys.

Too many drows spoil the broth.

 

[Theo R Cwithin]

well, i was taking a normal figure of speech "double entendra" and giving a letter often used for an unspecified number "n", the suffixe "le", and taking away the word "double." if that helps.

The term "n-tuple entendre" might be a bit closer to the mark, albeit only slightly less perplexing.