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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sniffles" data-source="post: 2146666" data-attributes="member: 30035">Ooh, this is the thread for me!  I'm known as the Grammar Police by my fellow players (who for some reason remain my friends <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> ).One GM in our group constantly commits my pet peeve:  he says "nucular" instead of "nuclear".  We also have an occasional player who insists that "lich" should be pronounced "lick". I try to be forgiving regarding a lot of the monster names, and some of the unusual weapons.  After all, how often have you heard "guisarme" or "tarrasque" used in casual conversation?  And how many people stop to look up a strange word in the dictionary when they see it? Not to mention, how many dictionaries contain the pronunciation for either of those words? My pet peeves with game terminology have more to do with misuse of terms than pronunciation.  For example, the names of some of the character classes.  Classes such as bard, fighter, wizard make sense because they are occupations or specialties.  But "barbarian" is not an occupation.  It's a derogatory term used by one culture to refer to another culture.  (And why do character sheets have a "profession" space on them?  Isn't my character's class her profession? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> ) I feel the same about referring to the different peoples of fantasy worlds as "races".  Elves are not a race.  They are a species, or a genus of the same species as humans (since elves and humans can interbreed).  Sun elves are a race of elves.  Svirfneblin are a race of gnomes.  If dwarves and halflings are races, then why can't they interbreed with elves, humans, or each other?  Yeah, I hear you out there shuddering at the thought of "dwarflings".  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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