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Thread: Espers: the meaning of the word? (spoilers)

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    Mortal Kombat was the clichéd film with Christopher Lambert and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa that's actually quite fun to watch if you're in the right mood.
    "The right mood" meaning "very, very drunk".

    And as I had understood it--at least from my SNES version of the game, espers were beings of pure magic. That's why when the goddesses were killed the espers disappeared--and likewise when espers were killed they turned into this magicite stuff rather than a body.

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    Esperi means 'hope' in the invented language Esperanto. I'm pretty sure the word derives from the latin root which has to do with hope.

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    You know, even though I'm pretty sure you were taking the piss, in latin, to hope is spero. I'm also pretty sure that this had nothing to do with choosing the name espers. I doubt espers was meant to be anything other than a "cool" sounding word to make idiots like us wonder about the meaning of a word that has no meaning...

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