On Thu, 2017-06-29 at 20:39 +0100, V.J Rada wrote: > Unrelated mostly but does anyone have any idea why Agora's offices > mostly end with "or" instead of "er"?
A long time back there was a tradition of using -keepor for an office that kept records about something (e.g. Rulekeepor). I don't know all the details of the history there; it's possible that Ørjan does, or perhaps some other player from that era. This started generalizing into other offices after a while. The construction was pretty much "append -or to a verb to form a name of an office that does that verb". For example, a Promotor is someone who promotes. To add to the confusion, some office names have been chosen to naturally end in -or, e.g. Tailor (which does not mean "someone who tails", even though that'd be a valid retroconstruction of the word in Agoran English). I think that's partly coincidence and partly people having fun with the theme. (There are also offices that fall into both of the above categories: an Assessor assesses proposals, and the word also means "someone who assesses things" in regular English.) -- ais523
