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Ah well, so long as 'tis a green skart, ná bac leis.

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I had a "night elf" character during the WoW beta (I live like 1/2 mile from Blizzard's codeshop) who was called "Rimeswitbow" - it might be difficult to translate the silliness of that.

I think she meant real girls, not guy gamers pretending to be girls.

The wick isn't half as scary as his girlfriend the warlich.

Yeah, that's definitely how it's used in contemporary English. In earlier stages of the language, there wasn't a gender-based warlock/witch dichotomy, but it's clearly established now. From time to time, neo-Pagans will assert something to the contrary (and maybe spell it "warlocke" or...

I don't see how anybody could resist translating it as "Pflumpf." To me most of the monster names are fairly neutral, though I grew up with many of them. A couple tend to sound a little silly if you aren't already familiar with modern horror/fantasy jargon, like using the word "skeleton" to...

Ah well, if ya can't have that, there's always this 1983 newspaper clipping with a picture of the DMG and the Expert set: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=44112&item=5174975771&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

That's largely what the Lorentz transformation is, a 4-D analog of rotation.

Simple - put each of them up on eBay with the words "unique" and "rare" in big red flashing letters, maybe write "Bill Gates" or "Skip Williams" inside the covers (it's not illegal to write names in books after all) - you'll make enough to buy the other one and a septic tank too.

In Einsteinian relativity, time and the three classical spatial dimensions are treated more as directionalities of a four-dimensional space-time. Time isn't exactly a spatial dimension but more of an observer-dependent preferred axis that the observer perceives as time. Different observers can...

Well, there's a reason why steel swords didn't commonly have lead plates welded on, even though it's quite possible and it would amplify the weight of the blade. I think you're vastly underestimating the complexity of both the physics and the swordplay. Different qualities are required for...

I agree, titanium is probably a poor choice of sword metal from its hardness, but the density is not so much of an issue. It's pretty easy make something heavier if you need it to be heavier, and I don't know that having a lighter, faster sword is such a huge disadvantage anyway. The cutting...

"Rapiers" were a relatively short-lived technology, and some archaeologists are even skeptical that were regularly used as weapons, proposing that the rapiers were more of an exaggerated status-symbol form of the more common dirk. They were definitely more thrusty than slashy, but as thrusting...

It builds up patina, even if it is usually a little more corrosion-resistant than iron. Salt is bronze's deadliest enemy, and that will eat through it in years or less. Bronze and ferrous sword-making technologies are radically different, so it's difficult to compare them directly in many...

I believe the official Revised Artists' Code (2002) says that mass produced items can still be considered art as long as some of the artist's original bodily fluids are involved in the production.

I've got no interest in TV right now.

Dang, one entry short of the 30 required for the contest to go on, and 51 minutes to go.

Oh, so you want to talk about fractal polytopes...

Hmm, AFAIK, a 6-sided 4d object has... 6 sides.