Anime Trivia [Please read 1st post before posting questions]

narcted · Post by **narcted** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 4:07 pm

I'm probably wrong, and I've never seen Elfen Lied, but doesn't diclonius Greek and is the term for a flower having stamen and pistils.

Ileia · Post by **Ileia** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 4:09 pm

Close, but no.

Kitsuner · Post by **Kitsuner** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 4:44 pm

Judging from the word, I would say that Lucy is a twin, and that it's a Latin term.

narcted · Post by **narcted** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 4:58 pm

aielI_Ileia wrote:Close, but no.

Really? Hmm, I'm not sure, was it the pistil and stamen on two different flowers? Please stop me if it has nothing to do with flowers. I'm having flashbacks of high school biology.

narcted · Post by **narcted** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 5:05 pm

Kitsuner wrote:Judging from the word, I would say that Lucy is a twin, and that it's a Latin term.

Oh yeah. That would make more sense. I always sucked at biology.

(Envisioning Elfen Lied being about plant pod people.)

Ileia · Post by **Ileia** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 10:52 pm

di- "two" + klon "sprout, twig", It's referring to the two horns found on the head of a diclonius.

New question:
What anime computer bears a striking resemblence to Apple's 20th Anniversary Macintosh?
(Pretty easy, think of an anime that has a computer in it.)

narcted · Post by **narcted** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 3:57 am

aielI_Ileia wrote:di- "two" + klon "sprout, twig", It's referring to the two horns found on the head of a diclonius.

New question:
What anime computer bears a striking resemblence to Apple's 20th Anniversary Macintosh?
(Pretty easy, think of an anime that has a computer in it.)

So was I right or wrong on that? I'm confused. I see a word I recognize describing an anime character from a series I've never seen and now it's killing me how the two are connected.

Er, I'm tempted to answer two series. Macross, because, like Mac OS, it went II, Plus, 7.

I guess the 20th Anniversary Mac looks a lot like Sylia's computer/alarm clock from the original BGC.

Kitsuner · Post by **Kitsuner** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 8:58 am

Serial Experiments Lain, perhaps?

Ileia · Post by **Ileia** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 9:16 am

Kitsuner wrote:Serial Experiments Lain, perhaps?

Yup. Your thread.

Narcted:
You were wrong, so I thought of a new, easier question. The Greek "di" means "two" and "klon" means "sprout" or "twig", not a "term for a flower having stamen and pistils." So, basically, it means "Two twigs", anyone who's seen the series would know that the diclonius have two horns, it's what sets them apart visually from humans, well, other than the pink hair....
(Also, I don't know how you recognized the word in relation to flowers, it was created in 1876 in reference to a dinosaur genus that was supposedly characterized by two rows of teeth.)

narcted · Post by **narcted** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 10:16 am

I looked it up. Sorry I mistook it for diclinous. Similiar spelling I guess.