Stop Combining Words in RPGs! - Let English prevail

[Piratecat]

Actually, I feel your pain.

You know, I'd believe you if it weren't for your user name.

 

[Umbran]

You all realize that this whole phenomenon (do doooo de do do) is hardly original in 4e. Or even peculiar to gaming.

Lady Pixie Moondrip's Guide to Craft Names

 

[RangerWickett]

You all realize that this whole phenomenon (do doooo de do do) is hardly original in 4e. Or even peculiar to gaming.

Lady Pixie Moondrip's Guide to Craft Names

Whatever happened to "Nyming Ur Kir'uctur?" Was that forrester's creation, or was there some other Elf hater who posted it?

And Piratecat (see, even you are guilty of naming badwrongfun), if he were a halfling, he'd be Thunderdeath Furryfeet.

 

[Khairn]

This is of far less importance than the fact that they are still using "falchion" to describe a great-scimitar. A falchion is a specifically ONE HANDED french weapon that could best be described as a war machete.

For me, there are few more idiotic and personally annoying aspects of 3E than the "falchion". Its like using the word dagger to describe a two handed sword. Its flat out wrong and I never understood the necessity for it. The fact that the authors of 4E decided to continue this deliberate falsification just boggles my mind.

/step off soapbox

I now return you to your previous rant.

 

[RangerWickett]

So what's the real word for a big giant scimitar?

 

[pawsplay]

So what's the real word for a big giant scimitar?

Tulwar, or just "large scimitar." Tulwar is not exclusively a two-handed weapon, either.

EDIT: Also, tachi is permissible, as well.

 

[El Mahdi]

So what's the real word for a big giant scimitar?

Greatscimitar, of course.

 

[RyvenCedrylle]

This thread is taking me back to my semester of Greek training at seminary. Like many ancient languages, early Greek has no spaces and little if any punctuation. Heck, you're lucky if the words don't change direction on you in the middle of a manuscript! On the other hand, this might be a benefit for the OP who would legitimately be able to call "γρηταχ" "great axe" and everyone else could go "greataxe" and neither would be wrong!

That was of course a phonetic spelling. I have no idea what the word would actually be.

 

[Hussar]

Except for the first syllable of a word, of course.

Unless that word is spoken by itself with no preceeding words, you would be correct.

Read the following sentence:

I am going to a party.

Show me where the "y" is before am, the "w" in going and the "w" between "to" and "a".

In any case, it is very rare to start a word with a pure vowel sound. Ye sit can be done. But very rare. And certainly would not be done with the word "warmage".

/steps off soapbox - sorry, I do this for a living. Please return to your regularly scheduled discussion.

 

[Silvercat Moonpaw]

You know what I find absurd? Insistence on a language remaining in one form. Our language has already changed from times far back. Why should we think now that that process should halt? Would halt?