Consistent parts of speech

[arscott]

But Bluff as a noun parallels the problem of Escape Artist as a noun--It describes the result of the skill rather than the skill itself. Trickery or Deception would work much better.

 

[Hussar]

As an English teacher, this thread warms my heart.

And that frightens me. Just a bit.

 

[am181d]

But Bluff as a noun parallels the problem of Escape Artist as a noun--It describes the result of the skill rather than the skill itself. Trickery or Deception would work much better.

Clearly "Escape Artist" is a verb with a direct object.

 

[kennew142]

DM Morton is the subject of my sentence... and what the predicate says, he does.

Ah! Someone else who learned his grammar from Grammar Rock!

 

[Avatar_V]

Ack; darn you, Occam! I never noticed the mismatch in 3.X and I wouldn't have noticed 'streetwise' in 4e until you pointed it out! Now it's always going to bug me!

 

[ZombieRoboNinja]

Streetwisdom?

Streetwisening?

From Tha Streetz?

 

[occam]

I thought one of the skill names was Streetwise.

Dangit!

Back to the drawing board...

 

[occam]

Interesting...but more importantly, what have you heard about the length of a typical 4e gnome's ear hair? I hope they didn't go overboard here, or it will really ruin the 4E experience for me. Too much ear hair really destroys the feeling of verisimilitude for me.

Gnome ear hair is used to indicate status; a gnome grows out his ear hair and trims and weaves it into fine feybraids, in the style of his ancestral Feywild Woodclan. In fact, gnomish proficiency with shears is the origin of the gnome daily racial power, Scissor Pinch, used to sunder light weapons.

Female gnomes, of course, have no unsightly ear hair. They're dead sexy, just like dwarf chicks.

 

[Richards]

Oh. Well, okay then.

Johnathan

 

[loseth]

Will you be just as impressed if they include noun clauses, too?

"How Thor threw the hammer"
"What Bigby cast"

Actually, although these have the appearance of being noun clauses, they could just be an Orc's attempt at forming the interrogative.