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I may be just irritable today but I'm ticked at the stupid combined words the game seems to be filled with. eg Greataxe instead of Great Axe.
Actually, I feel your pain. Sure, its minor, but its still a bummer. I'd be happy if D&D could find a happy meduim between Gygax's use of language in 1e, and the language it currently uses.
On the other hand, in D&D terms, greataxe refers to a specific kind of axe. If you went the other way, any axe (hand axe, hatchet, war axe or whatever) that had a nice sharp blade, an ornate handle, a really good balance point, or just worked really well, could be considered a really great axe.
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The WOTCspeak that gets me is "warmage". Obeying the rules of real english, my mind always interprets it as what you get when you lie down next to a fire.
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The WOTCspeak that gets me is "warmage". Obeying the rules of real english, my mind always interprets it as what you get when you lie down next to a fire.
Umm, no?
Obeying the rules of "real English", you ALWAYS split syllables between consonants and never afterwards. That word splits to either war MAGE or WAR mage, but never WARM age. You simply cannot start a syllable with a vowel sound in English.
((In case you think I'm wrong, even in words where you do have a syllable starting with a vowel, you add a consonant sound to the beginning. Otherwise, show me the "y" in "piano"))
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The WOTCspeak that gets me is "warmage". Obeying the rules of real english, my mind always interprets it as what you get when you lie down next to a fire.
((In case you think I'm wrong, even in words where you do have a syllable starting with a vowel, you add a consonant sound to the beginning. Otherwise, show me the "y" in "piano"))
Except for the first syllable of a word, of course.
Whatever happened to "Nyming Ur Kir'uctur?" Was that forrester's creation, or was there some other Elf hater who posted it?
And Piratecat (see, even you are guilty of naming badwrongfun), if he were a halfling, he'd be Thunderdeath Furryfeet.
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This is of far less importance than the fact that they are still using "falchion" to describe a great-scimitar. A falchion is a specifically ONE HANDED french weapon that could best be described as a war machete.
For me, there are few more idiotic and personally annoying aspects of 3E than the "falchion". Its like using the word dagger to describe a two handed sword. Its flat out wrong and I never understood the necessity for it. The fact that the authors of 4E decided to continue this deliberate falsification just boggles my mind.
/step off soapbox
I now return you to your previous rant.
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This thread is taking me back to my semester of Greek training at seminary. Like many ancient languages, early Greek has no spaces and little if any punctuation. Heck, you're lucky if the words don't change direction on you in the middle of a manuscript! On the other hand, this might be a benefit for the OP who would legitimately be able to call "γρηταχ" "great axe" and everyone else could go "greataxe" and neither would be wrong!
That was of course a phonetic spelling. I have no idea what the word would actually be.
Except for the first syllable of a word, of course.
Unless that word is spoken by itself with no preceeding words, you would be correct.
Read the following sentence:
I am going to a party.
Show me where the "y" is before am, the "w" in going and the "w" between "to" and "a".
In any case, it is very rare to start a word with a pure vowel sound. Ye sit can be done. But very rare. And certainly would not be done with the word "warmage".
/steps off soapbox - sorry, I do this for a living. Please return to your regularly scheduled discussion.
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You know what I find absurd? Insistence on a language remaining in one form. Our language has already changed from times far back. Why should we think now that that process should halt? Would halt?
Not a real quote of the inestimable RangerWickett. Hedoesn't needlessly concatenatewords somuch ashe pretends.
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