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<blockquote data-quote="Halivar" data-source="post: 4194247" data-attributes="member: 9327">I came to this thread believing that &quot;justiciar&quot; is the one and only spelling appropriate, but Cam changed my mind. I just now remembered that there is no such thing as an &quot;English Language Institute,&quot; and there is virtually no authority available for linguistic grognards to declare what is officically &quot;English.&quot; Heck, English teachers cannot even agree on whether a comma precedes the conjunction in a list (the single most infuriating recurring flip-flop in American English). On top of all that, English teachers on the other side of the pond (you know, the real English ones) think our English teachers are all backwards for perpetuating our &quot;American vulgarisms&quot; on a language that's shaky enough as it is.My newly held opinion: <a href="http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1384010" target="_blank">if Shakespeare can make up 3,000 words out of thin air</a> without English teachers complaining, WotC is allowed to make one, too.EDIT: Cam, please take no offense. All my friends are English teachers, and I have an immense amount of respect for anyone who can make sense of what is, from what I understand, the hardest language on earth to learn. Strunk &amp; White may be the bible to me, but the MLA handbook is the necronomicon.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Halivar, post: 4194247, member: 9327"] I came to this thread believing that "justiciar" is the one and only spelling appropriate, but Cam changed my mind. I just now remembered that there is no such thing as an "English Language Institute," and there is virtually no authority available for linguistic grognards to declare what is officically "English." Heck, English teachers cannot even agree on whether a comma precedes the conjunction in a list (the single most infuriating recurring flip-flop in American English). On top of all that, English teachers on the other side of the pond (you know, the real English ones) think our English teachers are all backwards for perpetuating our "American vulgarisms" on a language that's shaky enough as it is. My newly held opinion: [URL=http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1384010]if Shakespeare can make up 3,000 words out of thin air[/URL] without English teachers complaining, WotC is allowed to make one, too. EDIT: Cam, please take no offense. All my friends are English teachers, and I have an immense amount of respect for anyone who can make sense of what is, from what I understand, the hardest language on earth to learn. Strunk & White may be the bible to me, but the MLA handbook is the necronomicon. [/QUOTE]

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