Bulette

[MerakSpielman]

*knock, knock*

"Who's there?"

"Land shark!"

(I'll bite...)

"Land shark who?"

 

[Gez]

This site states it means hamburger patty?

"Bulette" in German comes from French "boulette" (same pronounciation, since the German "u" is the French "ou" and is the English "oo") which simply means a little ball (of anything, for example, a little meatball: une boulette de viande and, uh, ein Fleischbulette).

Now, the landsharks are not especially round, nor little. And they are the one who consider you like meat, rather than the reverse; usually.

 

[MerakSpielman]

Party of adventurers - the first to ever encounter the thing:

"Hey, what is that? Cast Comprehend Languages and see if we can talk to it."

"Ok," casts the spell, "what do you call your species?"

Creature, noticing the party, grunts excitedly.

"Bulettes." translates the mage just as the creature pounces on him and swallows him whole.

 

[Desdichado]

(I'll bite...)

"Land shark who?"

Gah! No, it's an old SNL reference.

 

[MerakSpielman]

You know, in my line of work that abbreviation made me pause for a few seconds. I see SNL dozens of times a day referring to "Sandia National Laboratories" and I was racking my brain trying to think of knock-knock jokes referring to this when I realized I'm almost totally blind to pop-culture references...

 

[Mystery Man]

*knock, knock*

"Who's there?"

"Land shark!"

No no no!

"Candygram."

"No your not, you're that Landshark!"

"Avon calling"

 

[Vaxalon]

"Bulette" in German comes from French "boulette" (same pronounciation, since the German "u" is the French "ou" and is the English "oo") which simply means a little ball (of anything, for example, a little meatball: une boulette de viande and, uh, ein Fleischbulette).

Now, the landsharks are not especially round, nor little. And they are the one who consider you like meat, rather than the reverse; usually.

Clearly, the term "Bulette" comes from the muttering they do while hunting. They're looking around for little round balls of meat (us) and in order to keep their little minds focused on the task they just repeat "bulettebulettebulettebulettebulettebulettebulettebulettebulettebulettebulettebulettebulettebulettebulettebulette" over and over...

 

[SpuneDagr]

You're complaining about the pronunciation of "bulette," and you're using enlgish as a precedent? We take foreign words and mangle them all the time, and we've never cared about consistancy in pronunciation.

Anyway, the word "bulette" is not French in origin like most people seem to think. It comes from the halfling word "buletteyreghtir" (pron. boo-lay-er-ate-'er) meaning, literally, "The bulette ate her."

 

[Endur]

I always call them "land sharks". As a gm, I never call them Bulettes.