D&D General What did D&D teach you?

[Ralif Redhammer]

Like many others, D&D greatly expanded my vocabulary (but alas for younger me, not necessarily my pronunciation).

 

[CharlesWallace]

Like many others, D&D greatly expanded my vocabulary (but alas for younger me, not necessarily my pronunciation).

oh yeah, I get bitten by that ALL the time. My wife made fun of me a while back when I mispronounced virile as viral. Oof. And brassiere vs brassier.

 

[Laurefindel]

What words have you learned from D&D? Or any RPG, really?

The English language, actually.

Not all books were translated to French, or else were hard to find, so it taught me English.

 

[CharlesWallace]

The English language, actually.

Not all books were translated to French, or else were hard to find, so it taught me English.

Well, I think you win- that's awesome!

 

[Laurefindel]

Well, I think you win- that's awesome!

I mean, obviously D&D alone didn’t teach it all, but it was one of the earliest motivations and main source of English writings I had access to (that and my dad’s Scientific American mags).

 

[The Soloist]

The English language. As someone from Quebec, speaking only French, I had to use a dictionary to learn English as I played BX and read modules. I had a basic understanding of English, but some of the words in D&D are pretty specific. Good thing Moldvay, Marsh and Cook used simple phrases. Then I moved on to AD&D and discovered the convoluted fun of High Gygaxian English!

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

oh yeah, I get bitten by that ALL the time. My wife made fun of me a while back when I mispronounced virile as viral. Oof. And brassiere vs brassier.

Heh, I definitely have heard other people misuse brassiere vs brazier at tables.

 

[The Soloist]

Fun fact: I (too) mispronounced Brazier as Brassiere. Which my university English girlfriend found extremely funny.

 

[MGibster]

What words have you learned from D&D? Or any RPG, really?

When you get to a certain age, it's very difficult to remember when you first learned a particular word. I can definitely say that obfuscate was a word I learned from Vampire the Masquerade in 1991. And it was an SAT word so it was useful for me a few years later. I've joked that the random harlot table in AD&D 1st edition taught me some new words, and it did, I didn't know what a doxy was when I was 12, but there were a ton of other words I must have learned as well, but I can't remember which ones in particular. AD&D 1st edition wasn't really written with an audience of kids my age in mind.

 

[MGibster]

I was lucky to ask my dad and not my mom the difference between a slovenly trull and a brazen strumpet.

Dad: About 15 gold pieces.
Mom: --Glares in Mom--