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How (greeting)

The word "How" or Howgh is a word used as a greeting or particle in the sense of I have spoken in some Native American languages and their popular representations. It is a part of popular depictions of Native Americans in various novels as of James Fenimore Cooper or Karl May and further media.

Background

The Oxford English Dictionary OED uses [haːʊ̯] ("how") for the spelling and claims Jean de Brébeuf had described the use of the term as an interjection of approval with the Wyandot (Hurons). De Brébeuf described individual speakers using Condayauendi Ierhayde cha nonhwicwahachen to signify the end of their section, which was answered by the community with a long "Hooow".

Longman Webster describes Howgh as greeting of the Sioux resepectively "Háu kola" (Hallo friend) as Lakota Sioux greeting. However, it would be the only Lakota term using a Diphthong and is probably of external origin. Dakota and Omaha Sioux use slightly different versions, it might be already an import from Parkmans The Oregontrail as of 1847. The modern actual Indians rhetoric, neither in the case of the Hurons nor the Lakota, wasn't using the term for long, around 1900 "Good Morning" was the preferred greeting.

How (video game)

How (stylized as HOW) is a freeware, indie 2D platform videogame for Windows-based machines released in 2012 by Danish videogame developer Michael Jensen which became notorious for its high difficulty level and unfair abuse of the player based on unexpected death traps.

Gameplay

The game plays like any standard 2-d platform game in which the player can move the main character, Foxy McBox, through the level with the arrow keys and jump, but unlike in most games of its genre, the character cannot be controlled once in mid-air and will need forward momentum in order to jump in any direction, making it very difficult to make it through even some of the earliest stages.

Besides, instead of following an argumental path, the players have the choice of taking on the levels in any order they want, something that can be used to the player's advantage by, for example, avoiding too difficult levels.

Development

The developer decided to start creating the game after complaining across several game developer forums about the "extreme hand-holding of the player" in current generation games and as such he set out to create a game that would be brutally unfair to the player.