Stop Combining Words in RPGs! - Let English prevail

[Nifft]

I loved my boots, high, hard, mister

You never wear those in public any more.

I got a good one:

roleplaying

If this doesn't win, then I nominate "brittlestar".

Cheers, -- N

 

[Piratecat]

You never wear those in public any more.

"Do these boots, high, hard make me look fat?"

 

[blargney the second]

"Do these boots, high, hard make me look fat?"

Well, if you wore them in public again we'd be able to tell you that!

 

[Henrix]

In Swedish, it is actually a very common English import these days to NOT combine words. Darned cultural imperialism!

Which often changes their meaning entirely, so it's not unimportant. (Compare 'sjuksköterska' (a nurse for the sick) and 'sjuk sköterska' (a nurse who is sick).)

 

[Henrix]

This reminds me of the German Bundeswehr method of categorizing items, which (exaggerated) looks like this:
Trap, rodent, small, gray - Mousetrap.

I think that's a fallacy many modern armies fall for. Both the Swedish and US army has categories like that.
Helicopter, Utility
Rations, dried

 

[Mark]

"Do these boots, high, hard make me look fat?"

Just a bit. But if it's any consolation, just asking the question also makes you look high.

 

[El Mahdi]

It's either "combining words" OR the use of madeup words....

Now that's just total blugrendorfer.

 

[Hypersmurf]

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.

You don't split a trailing consonant double blend when breaking a word into syllables, do you?

warm: rm is a consonant blend.
So we have warm/er and warm/est and warm/ing, not war/mer and war/mest and war/ming.

And there are any number of words in English that have syllables that start with a vowel. fin/ish, for example.

Makes perfect sense to me that someone would read "warmage" the same way they'd read "carnage".

-Hyp.

 

[Piratecat]

Well, if you wore them in public again we'd be able to tell you that!

Some things are only precious because they are rare.

Incidentally, I followed the link in your sig and watched the video of you guys dancing. Kudos, man - you're just amazing.

 

[Morrus]

I loved my boots, high, hard, mister - useful against green slime!

That's "slime, green" to you!