Happy 23rd Star Day Lain_EX

Kor · **Reply #20 on:** December 14, 2007, 02:25:38 AM

We left some pieces of pie for you and any others who may come late.

StarfallRaptor · **Reply #21 on:** December 14, 2007, 02:36:31 AM

Happy Starday! Lain, now aka mr. "Dickie?"

Malte279 · **Reply #22 on:** December 14, 2007, 04:26:11 AM

I'm sorry I'm late. Congratulations Lain_Ex!
Health, success, happiness, and love for your next year of life

Lain_EX · **Reply #23 on:** December 14, 2007, 05:31:19 PM

Well, thank you so very much! I've got a Diamond version of PokÈmon. I'll send you the Friend code later in my Wi-Fi Connection thread.

BTW, what's all that "starday" thingy?

AvestheForumFox · **Reply #24 on:** December 14, 2007, 09:45:01 PM

Quote from: Lain_EX,Dec 14 2007 on 04:31 PM

Well, thank you so very much! I've got a Diamond version of PokÈmon. I'll send you the Friend code later in my Wi-Fi Connection thread.

BTW, what's all that "starday" thingy?

its LBT wording for 'Birthday'

another one would be 'hatchday', or something like that

Manny Cav · **Reply #25 on:** December 15, 2007, 12:37:40 AM

Wouldn't hatchday refer to the actual day one was born (or hatched), and star day the anniversary of that day? I can't remember where hatchday was spoken....

Malte279 · **Reply #26 on:** December 15, 2007, 06:00:24 AM

In LBT 5.
Cera: "This is like waiting for your hatchday; it never seems to get any closer."
So apparently hatchday may refer to the anniversary of your hatching as well.

Manny Cav · **Reply #27 on:** December 15, 2007, 11:38:06 AM

Yes. Anyway, it really could go either way, but I still tend to think that hatchday is the day that one is hatched. What we do know is that star day definitely refers to the anniversary that one is hatched, and it wouldn't be logical for them to use two different terms to mean the same thing. Cera's use of the word implies one that can't wait to be hatched out of their egg.

Malte279 · **Reply #28 on:** December 16, 2007, 05:15:33 AM

I seriously doubt that Cera would remember waiting in her egg for her hatchday. Same as none of us would remember waiting for our birth. Within the egg she wouldn't even know what hatching is or what lies beyond the shell.
I suppose that there are just two words for the same thing. Hatchday seems the more immediate choice for dinosaurs. The starday suggests some kind of interest in astronomy which suffices for the dinosaurs to have a rather accurate calender.

Manny Cav · **Reply #29 on:** December 16, 2007, 11:10:01 AM

She probably didn't remember waiting to be hatched. She probably said that with the foreknowledge that it can take awhile for dinosaurs to hatch, not necessarily from her own experience.

Malte279 · **Reply #30 on:** December 16, 2007, 01:58:43 PM

I don't know if Cera would think in such an abstract manner. The idea of hatchday being just a dinosaur phrase for birthday (both actual birthday and anniversary of the same) seems a lot more plausible to me.

Manny Cav · **Reply #31 on:** December 17, 2007, 01:03:37 AM

Well, there's no real way to know what "hatchday" really means, so it's just speculation, anyway. The phrase "star day" might actually be an unintentional retcon on "hatch day."