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November 19th, 2005, 06:53 PM
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Re: Leader type: Whats an \"Omnicron\" ?
Omni is latin, whereas the word you have in mind for time is greek, so there might be a problem here (though some words have been created with both roots in Indo-European languages). More importantly, the greek word for time is chronos, so it should be omnichronon, or something to that effect.
Then again, there is a Unix command called cron that starts a command or a script at a given time, so. Who knows?
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November 20th, 2005, 01:40 PM
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Re: Leader type: Whats an \"Omnicron\" ?
Omnicron is the name of the leader of the evil Transformers. Maybe someone has just taken it for a 'title' instead of a name? It sounds like a mistake that someone just hunting around for titles might make.
It might also be a mispelling of Omicron, which is the 15th letter of the Greek alphabet. But I don't know why anyone would think that was a title for a leader, so the first idea seems the most likely.
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November 20th, 2005, 02:07 PM
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Re: Leader type: Whats an \"Omnicron\" ?
cool. I dont remember much of transformers, apart from some scenes... no names though.
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November 20th, 2005, 04:30 PM
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Re: Leader type: Whats an \"Omnicron\" ?
I suppose any of these explanations is possible, but I wouldn't spend too much time thinking about this one...
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November 21st, 2005, 04:26 AM
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Re: Leader type: Whats an \"Omnicron\" ?
I dont know about any of the new Transformers but in the old show the villian was Megatron. I always thought that an Omnicron was an omni-present, all seeing entity. Can't find an actual definition of one so I guess it is made up.
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November 21st, 2005, 04:41 AM
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Re: Leader type: Whats an \"Omnicron\" ?
I think Omnicron was the giant planet robot in the Transformers movie. voiced by Orson Wells I believe.
Edit: however IMDB says that was Unicron.
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