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<blockquote data-quote="BoldItalic" data-source="post: 7119939" data-attributes="member: 6777052">Fun is when everybody laughs.So far, the &quot;Laugh with this post&quot; score for this thread is .... zero. This thread is no fun at all. Whose responsibility is that? Everyone, including me, now that I've posted in it. What does this tell you? What does it tell all of us? That we are all taking the subject of fun too seriously. There ought to be a word for that.I thought about making up a Latin-ish word, but it's hopeless. The Latin word for &quot;fun&quot; (ludus) is the same word as the word for &quot;a game&quot;. In Latin, all games are automatically fun because there is no semantic difference between the two things. If everybody played D&amp;D in Latin, there wouldn't be a problem.Maybe Greek? There's a Greek word κέφι that means fun in the sense of conviviality and cheerfulness, so that seems pretty close to what we should be aiming for in D&amp;D. A suitable word for &quot;serious&quot; might be σοβαρός (which is cognate with our word &quot;sober&quot;). Put the two together and you get σοβαρόκέφι which sounds a bit like a tavern with no beer. Yup. Works for me.&quot;You arrive back at the village, looking forward to a long rest and a spot of carousing, to find that the tavern has run out of beer. What do you do?&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BoldItalic, post: 7119939, member: 6777052"] Fun is when [I]everybody[/I] laughs. So far, the "Laugh with this post" score for this thread is .... zero. This thread is no fun at all. Whose responsibility is that? Everyone, including me, now that I've posted in it. What does this tell you? What does it tell all of us? That we are all taking the subject of fun too seriously. There ought to be a word for that. I thought about making up a Latin-ish word, but it's hopeless. The Latin word for "fun" (ludus) is the same word as the word for "a game". In Latin, all games are automatically fun because there is no semantic difference between the two things. If everybody played D&D in Latin, there wouldn't be a problem. Maybe Greek? There's a Greek word κέφι that means fun in the sense of conviviality and cheerfulness, so that seems pretty close to what we should be aiming for in D&D. A suitable word for "serious" might be σοβαρός (which is cognate with our word "sober"). Put the two together and you get σοβαρόκέφι which sounds a bit like a tavern with no beer. Yup. Works for me. "You arrive back at the village, looking forward to a long rest and a spot of carousing, to find that the tavern has run out of beer. What do you do?" [/QUOTE]

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