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<blockquote data-quote="Cadence" data-source="post: 8029873" data-attributes="member: 6701124"><p>I'm not sure if it's scientific objections that put it down, as opposed to the word having a variety of meanings, and the one science rightfully craps on is the one most commonly used today. Much of the below is probably not needed - but I thought it was interesting that one of the examples in the OED quotes Dragon Magazine (obviously too late to say why it's being used in D&D, but does give insight into which definition the OED folks think D&D is using).</p><p></p><p>The online OED gives eight nouns sharing the word race, with number 6 being relevant (1=a rush, 2=a root, 3=a cut, 4=a mark on the face, and 5=a breed of horses, 7=the heart, liver, and lungs, 8= calcareous materials in clay).</p><p></p><p>6.I. is "A group of people, animals, or plants, connected by common descent or origin."</p><p></p><p>It starts with (1.a.) in 1547 as "A group of people belonging to the same family and descended from a common ancestor; a house, family, kindred." This quickly devolves through b & c to (1.d.) in 1735 "According to various more or less formal attempted systems of classification: any of the (putative) major groupings of mankind" that usually focussed on skin color and I think is the unfortunate common usage today.</p><p></p><p>It isn't clear to me though that (1) is the one that D&D uses. It feels like that is coming from something like Tolkien's "race of men" which goes with (3.a.) and (3.b.)</p><p></p><p>3. Any of the major divisions into which living creatures may be separated. (Chiefly not in technical use.) Cf. kind n. 7.</p><p></p><p>a. A class, kind, or species of beings other than humans or animals.</p><p></p><p>1578 T. Churchyard - Thou are not of the race of Gods...</p><p></p><p>1781 W. Cowper - The FAuns and Satyrs, a lascivious race.</p><p></p><p>1950 C. P. Lyons - A mysterious race of giants, known as the Sasquatch.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]123446[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>b. The class of humans; mankind. Formerly frequently with the.</p><p>human race: see human adj. and n. Compounds 1b.</p><p></p><p>1667 J. Milton - The happy seat Of som new Race call'd Man.</p><p></p><p>1727 J. Thomson - The Flux of many thousand Years, That oft has swept the busy RAce of Men..away.</p><p></p><p>1958 College Eng. 19 175/2 - Tom and Rosasharn underscore the epic idea that all men are brothers because all men belong to the Race of Man.</p><p></p><p>There is also a 2, 4-6, and II, and a few more sub-definitions (and lots of quotes) for the ones I give above, but I don't think I'm leaving anything relevant out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cadence, post: 8029873, member: 6701124"] I'm not sure if it's scientific objections that put it down, as opposed to the word having a variety of meanings, and the one science rightfully craps on is the one most commonly used today. Much of the below is probably not needed - but I thought it was interesting that one of the examples in the OED quotes Dragon Magazine (obviously too late to say why it's being used in D&D, but does give insight into which definition the OED folks think D&D is using). The online OED gives eight nouns sharing the word race, with number 6 being relevant (1=a rush, 2=a root, 3=a cut, 4=a mark on the face, and 5=a breed of horses, 7=the heart, liver, and lungs, 8= calcareous materials in clay). 6.I. is "A group of people, animals, or plants, connected by common descent or origin." It starts with (1.a.) in 1547 as "A group of people belonging to the same family and descended from a common ancestor; a house, family, kindred." This quickly devolves through b & c to (1.d.) in 1735 "According to various more or less formal attempted systems of classification: any of the (putative) major groupings of mankind" that usually focussed on skin color and I think is the unfortunate common usage today. It isn't clear to me though that (1) is the one that D&D uses. It feels like that is coming from something like Tolkien's "race of men" which goes with (3.a.) and (3.b.) 3. Any of the major divisions into which living creatures may be separated. (Chiefly not in technical use.) Cf. kind n. 7. a. A class, kind, or species of beings other than humans or animals. 1578 T. Churchyard - Thou are not of the race of Gods... 1781 W. Cowper - The FAuns and Satyrs, a lascivious race. 1950 C. P. Lyons - A mysterious race of giants, known as the Sasquatch. [ATTACH type="full" alt="race.JPG"]123446[/ATTACH] b. The class of humans; mankind. Formerly frequently with the. human race: see human adj. and n. Compounds 1b. 1667 J. Milton - The happy seat Of som new Race call'd Man. 1727 J. Thomson - The Flux of many thousand Years, That oft has swept the busy RAce of Men..away. 1958 College Eng. 19 175/2 - Tom and Rosasharn underscore the epic idea that all men are brothers because all men belong to the Race of Man. There is also a 2, 4-6, and II, and a few more sub-definitions (and lots of quotes) for the ones I give above, but I don't think I'm leaving anything relevant out. [/QUOTE]
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