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In English, words are defined based on use, not the other way around. Using well-understood etymological constructions, one can make sundry words and phrases that fit within the context of the language and can be understood by almost anyone. Should these portmanteaus be used in scholarly...

That's called language. Or dost thou deem confab be perforce doomed to eschew vicissitude? The changing meanings, pronunciations, etc. of words are something to be embraced by those who love language. I hate when people use the word cool incorrectly. It is supposed describe something having...

The definition you are using for decimate is archaic. The actual modern definition of the word is to cause great destruction. Maybe now you can stop letting it get to you :)

I've heard of companies changing their tanker trucks to say "Flammable" after confusion over the word "inflammable".

I'm playing "PHP: The Coding"

The word ultimate has come to mean greatest due to the concept of something so great that nothing could ever follow it. Penultimate then is something that is near this great, but not entirely. I don't hear it used that often, but whenever I have it has not been in a manner that would...

Actually this statement applies just as well to Kalamar, which may be where the parallels are being drawn.

As Mark already pointed out, it's still in print. The core book is great if you want a setting and not more rules. If you have a FLGS that has it, just flip through it and read about a city here and then reference anything you want to know more about in the excellent index. It's a very...

Does it start in normal mode?

In 2e I think the general concensus was that the Krynnish gods lived on the great ring, but the limited planar knowledge the Krynnish people had caused them to misinterpret their cosmological placement. It makes sense. Most religions go through cosmological restructuring at some point (i.e...

If you find out, let me know at reanjr @t reanjr d.t org, please

Am I the only person who didn't realize that was Strahd on the cover? It looked so much unlike Strahd, I assumed it was someone else.

Has anyone ever thought of creating a metapoll? Indicate what data you are trying to collect and then set up a poll to ask how best to create a representative poll?

Addendum: Sunstones should always work. They are limited in pointing you directly East or West and require the sun for navigation. The Vikings were probably using them before the 8th century. Basically, by polarizing light from the sun you can cast a prism-like effect that tells you what the...

Well, on the planes I don't see how a nonmagical compass would function. Magentic planetary fields are formed by spinning cores of metal. If a plane does not have a core (which none of them would to my knowledge) then it would not have working compasses. Unless you presume that the planes...

I could be wrong but I think you have to have the Flash Media Server running on your hosting machine. http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashmediaserver/index.html Unfortunately, I do not think there is a free version. The price is in the hundreds of dollars. EDIT: Actually it might be in the...

Despite the fact that they should all work together, Linksys routers can have problems with Netgear cards, which can also have problems with X routers, which have problems with Y cards, etc. If you've got preinstalled cards, shouldn't be too big a deal as they're probably Intel (unless you have...

I created something a bit like this. I split the combat into Combat Groups. Everyone in a Combat Group could attack everyone else in a Combat Group. You could move from one Combat Group to another by using a Move Action. Attacks of Opportunity were handled a bit differently so that someone...

They have the exact progression you would expect from mathematical analysis if you are to preclude 10th level spells and replace them with extra 9th and 8th level slots. If adding in 10th level spells, just remove the extra slots: 8 9 10 15th 1 - - 16th 2 - -...

http://www.allofmp3.com/ Fantastic service. Beats iTunes in every imaginable way except for selection. I mainly have trouble finding newer releases and certain types of release that were probably never released in Russia (like soundtracks for movies that never made it to Russia).