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<blockquote data-quote="Nathaniel Lee" data-source="post: 7772625" data-attributes="member: 6948827"><p>I never knew that all I needed to do was say something is so three times to make it a trend. ROFL.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I would agree with the sentiment at a high level, and I personally wouldn't be bothered one bit by an IP labeling a species of three-headed dogs as cerberi. That said, I think the relative rarity of the creature in popular culture points to not enough people seeing it as a generic term rather than a specific individual's name.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>He is well regarded in his field, but he is virtually unknown outside of it, which makes him unfit as a reference for popular thinking.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Sure, but you first misrepresented it as "Harry Potter" which, without clear documentation of that you're referencing fan fiction, implies the ubiquitous original literature.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>He didn't imagine that, though. His audience for that fan fiction was not children but rather adults to whom he was promoting the subject matter covered by his academic research and on his website.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I've heard numerous good things about the comic series. It is well regarded, but it is also not very well known. Relatively few comic book readers will actually know who this character is, let alone have read it and would recognize any reference to it. It's a non-starter in mainstream pop culture, and if we're talking about common usage of a word, then mainstream pop culture, regardless of critical regard (or lack thereof), is going to trump less known, if award-winning, material each and every time.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And I find it incredibly likely. I've seen the creation of a generic species of three-headed dogs that were labeled as cerberi (case in point God of War), but its very unlikely that a property has referred to that specific mythological entity as "the Cerberus" instead of "Cerberus", but that's beside the point since any such work, if it existed, would just be another in the extreme minority when compared to the countless number of works that correctly used the word as a proper name.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nathaniel Lee, post: 7772625, member: 6948827"] I never knew that all I needed to do was say something is so three times to make it a trend. ROFL. I would agree with the sentiment at a high level, and I personally wouldn't be bothered one bit by an IP labeling a species of three-headed dogs as cerberi. That said, I think the relative rarity of the creature in popular culture points to not enough people seeing it as a generic term rather than a specific individual's name. He is well regarded in his field, but he is virtually unknown outside of it, which makes him unfit as a reference for popular thinking. Sure, but you first misrepresented it as "Harry Potter" which, without clear documentation of that you're referencing fan fiction, implies the ubiquitous original literature. He didn't imagine that, though. His audience for that fan fiction was not children but rather adults to whom he was promoting the subject matter covered by his academic research and on his website. I've heard numerous good things about the comic series. It is well regarded, but it is also not very well known. Relatively few comic book readers will actually know who this character is, let alone have read it and would recognize any reference to it. It's a non-starter in mainstream pop culture, and if we're talking about common usage of a word, then mainstream pop culture, regardless of critical regard (or lack thereof), is going to trump less known, if award-winning, material each and every time. And I find it incredibly likely. I've seen the creation of a generic species of three-headed dogs that were labeled as cerberi (case in point God of War), but its very unlikely that a property has referred to that specific mythological entity as "the Cerberus" instead of "Cerberus", but that's beside the point since any such work, if it existed, would just be another in the extreme minority when compared to the countless number of works that correctly used the word as a proper name. [/QUOTE]
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