What's the deal with "dorf"?

[Teo]

I'm curious where the whole thing of calling the dwarves "dorfs" started.

EDIT: Just realised I'm also curious about the whole "urist" thing :p

[Kronie]

What's the deal with calling cats "kots", whats the deal with calling dogs "doge", what's the deal with people giving nicknames to things they find cute.

What's the deal with nicknames when did that start.
What's the deal with human beings, when did that start.
Wow, such mystery. Such mystical beings with truly mysterious behavior, we will never know.

[AlP]

The "dorf" thing started on bay12 forums.

Urist is a generic dorf name in DF.

[AmesNFire]

Originally posted by AlP:

The "dorf" thing started on bay12 forums.

Urist is a generic dorf name in DF.

Urist McMiner or Urist McMarksdorf is also a thing as a way to explain what a specific dwarf is doing for their profession without typing up their whole unique name.

[chronosphaenon]

The wiki has a page about Urist. Dorf, afaik, is just a phonetics joke on Dwarf.

[McFuzz]

Urist was a particularly common name, and someone on the forums once said "Urist McSomething" and "Urist Mc-Profession" stuck. Urist is the Dwarven word for Dagger.

Dorf, and dorfs, is easier and quicker to type than dwarf, as well as being a cute nickname with a kind of derpy sound to it. So. Dorf.

[[MadTs] Phyrys]

Depends of if I'm in bad mood about dwarfs or not. For exemple, when I play Total War Warhammer as Thorgrim, it's dwarfs. When I get mauled as Skarsnik versus Thorgrim, it's dorfs.

[Morkonan]

"Dorf" has been around for longer than the 'net. I was using that to make fun of them when the D&D "Red Box" edition was still on the shelf.

It's a sort of naturally evolved, in English, slang term for them that doesn't have to have some kind of identifiable origin. (Not a homophone, just can't remember the term atm. "Bartardization," but spelled and defined correctly... might be appropriate.)

eg: "Doggy" doesn't have to have an origin. It just uses that cutesy little baby-talk addition of the "and sometimes "y"" vowel at the end.

[Elysian]

Urist is also good for if you need names for a conversation because it is so generic. Example:
Urist 1: "Alright, any ideas for what we should do about the carp attacking Urist McFisher?"
Urist 2: "Flood the lake with magma."
(Note: carp are no longer the threat they used to be.)

[Grimmrog_SIG]

it's a grown game with grown community and grown inside jokes.

Originally posted by Elysian:

Urist is also good for if you need names for a conversation because it is so generic. Example:
Urist 1: "Alright, any ideas for what we should do about the carp attacking Urist McFisher?"
Urist 2: "Flood the lake with magma."
(Note: carp are no longer the threat they used to be.)

carp always made me think dwarfs have the size of garden gnomes, buw that would put them in an impossible fight vs elcves and humans.