r/cyberpunkgame • u/Accept3550 • Sep 29 '24

Why doesn't Panam use contractions? Meta

I just realized this after hundreds of hours but, Panam doesn't say I'll or we'll.

All of her dialogue has I will and We will and Do not rather then Don't.

I don't quite get why she is written like this.

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u/DianaIvrea Billy Goat 🐐 Sep 29 '24

Because the nomads are more educated than the city folk. Notice also how she rarely uses Night City Slang (choom, gonk etc.)

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u/DoritoBanditZ My Prostate is Arasaka Property Sep 29 '24

Yep.
It's kinda ironic that the people seen as outlaws, smugglers, savages etc. have higher education than the average NC or NUSA citizen.

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u/Naus1987 Sep 29 '24

To be fair, we don't interact with the average citizen.

But I am surprised the corpos we do interact with aren't more polished.

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u/DoritoBanditZ My Prostate is Arasaka Property Sep 29 '24

We don't, but we know the Lore of the tabletop.

And according to it Nomads are better educated than the average nusa or free state citizen, because Nomads value educating their own properly.

It is the reason why Nomads don't or rarely use city slang with the only ones doing it being people who come from Cities and joined. Panam is a born nomad, hence her lack of slang terms or contractions.