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<blockquote data-quote="slobster" data-source="post: 6019346" data-attributes="member: 6693711">Well, I think that is the origin of the term, but no longer its only definition. The term &quot;gish&quot; is so widely used in the gamer community for a fighter/caster hybrid character that the colloquial connotation has eclipsed its original use.Just like &quot;barbarian&quot; began as an onomatopoeia for babbling foreigners, then became a term for people who weren't Greek, then people who weren't civilized, then a character in an RPG who can rage and swings big weapons.But just as you don't see a lot of people complaining that every class should be considered a barbarian because none of them were born in one of the ancient Greek city-states, I think we can grant that &quot;gish&quot; as a bit of slang shorthand for &quot;caster-melee hybrid&quot; is a legitimate use of the word. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />/pedantic lecture <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&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="slobster, post: 6019346, member: 6693711"] Well, I think that is the origin of the term, but no longer its only definition. The term "gish" is so widely used in the gamer community for a fighter/caster hybrid character that the colloquial connotation has eclipsed its original use. Just like "barbarian" began as an onomatopoeia for babbling foreigners, then became a term for people who weren't Greek, then people who weren't civilized, then a character in an RPG who can rage and swings big weapons. But just as you don't see a lot of people complaining that every class should be considered a barbarian because none of them were born in one of the ancient Greek city-states, I think we can grant that "gish" as a bit of slang shorthand for "caster-melee hybrid" is a legitimate use of the word. :) /pedantic lecture ;) [/QUOTE]

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