Deleting multiplayer from the Unreal engine can save memory

On ABZÛ we ripped out multiplayer and lots of other cruft from AActor and UPrimitiveComponent - dropping builtin overlap events, which are a kind of anti pattern anyway, not only saved RAM but cut a lot of ghost reads/writes.

Your presence inspired me to try to look up what the circumflex on "abzû" is supposed to signify. As best I can tell, it's a marker of vowel length.

I wonder how that came to be used. It's a traditional way to distinguish eta and omega in transliteration from Greek, but it's not at all a traditional way to mark long vowels in general.

(I see that wikipedia says this about Akkadian:

> Long vowels are transliterated with a macron (ā, ē, ī, ū) or a circumflex (â, ê, î, û), the latter being used for long vowels arising from the contraction of vowels in hiatus.

But it seems odd for an independent root to contain a contracted double vowel. And the page "Abzu" has the circumflex on the Sumerian transliteration too.)

"Abzu" is also the Greek onomatopoeia for a sneeze.

I was highly amused to learn that the ancient Greek verb for spitting is πτύω. (Compare English "ptooey".)

Yeah, and the modern is much the same ("φτύνω"). I'm sure it's onomatopoeic, and it's an amusing word.