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<blockquote data-quote="NotAYakk" data-source="post: 8446436" data-attributes="member: 72555">Both the statements &quot;Town means walled villiage&quot; and &quot;Town means a settlement of a certain size, depending on juristiction&quot; are true, and rely on different modern English meanings of &quot;mean&quot;.&nbsp; But disagreeing with one and saying &quot;actually&quot; the other is simply wrong; the use you disagreed with is perfectly colloquial English.Your error was not understanding modern English.&nbsp; Words, including &quot;mean&quot;, mean more than one thing.---Anyhow, using Town vs Villiage for walled and unwalled in D&amp;D would make a lot of sense.In my headcannon, &quot;suoerstitious&quot; rites are performed - hedge magic - to secure dwellings and settlements and roads against monsters.&nbsp; Individual homes would be warded thus way.Villiages would be clumps of such individual homes.&nbsp; Then a low grade stone wall with rudimentary warding would be added; as it progresses, the villiage would be upgraded to town.Using catheral city for the definition of City also works along these lines; a cathedral would be a ritual anchor for the wards of a settlement.&nbsp; Its spire a magical antenna for ley lines, the services prayer wheels fueling the wards.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="NotAYakk, post: 8446436, member: 72555"] Both the statements "Town means walled villiage" and "Town means a settlement of a certain size, depending on juristiction" are true, and rely on different [I]modern English[/I] meanings of "mean". But disagreeing with one and saying "actually" the other is simply wrong; the use you disagreed with is perfectly colloquial English. Your error was not understanding modern English. Words, including "mean", mean more than one thing. --- Anyhow, using Town vs Villiage for walled and unwalled in D&D would make a lot of sense. In my headcannon, "suoerstitious" rites are performed - hedge magic - to secure dwellings and settlements and roads against monsters. Individual homes would be warded thus way. Villiages would be clumps of such individual homes. Then a low grade stone wall with rudimentary warding would be added; as it progresses, the villiage would be upgraded to town. Using catheral city for the definition of City also works along these lines; a cathedral would be a ritual anchor for the wards of a settlement. Its spire a magical antenna for ley lines, the services prayer wheels fueling the wards. [/QUOTE]

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