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<blockquote data-quote="prosfilaes" data-source="post: 5967093" data-attributes="member: 40166">They didn't use it first; as I established in my post, the word dates at least back to 1986 where it meant gamer.That's not exactly what I claimed.Then they won't be able to communicate, since those meanings cover such a range as to be, as a group, meaningless.In any case, that's an unproven assertion for &quot;gamist&quot; and easily disprovable in the general case. A Baptist is not one who baptizes; it's one who belong to a particular group of people known as the Baptists.You've failed to establish what that is. Looking at Google Books again,&nbsp; the hits for &quot;gamist&quot;, after we've filtered out poly'gamist and friends, refer directly to Edwards or refer to Mäkelä (who used GNS theory). American studies: Volume 21 uses a gamist, simulationist, dramatist breakdown, but their definition of gamist seems pretty close to GNS theory's. One seems to use Gamist for a made-up fictional race or group. I see no evidence that what you call &quot;everyday usage&quot; has been used in print, outside two magazine references in the 1980s that used gamist for gamer and gamemaker respectively.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="prosfilaes, post: 5967093, member: 40166"] They didn't use it first; as I established in my post, the word dates at least back to 1986 where it meant gamer. That's not exactly what I claimed. Then they won't be able to communicate, since those meanings cover such a range as to be, as a group, meaningless. In any case, that's an unproven assertion for "gamist" and easily disprovable in the general case. A Baptist is not one who baptizes; it's one who belong to a particular group of people known as the Baptists. You've failed to establish what that is. Looking at Google Books again, the hits for "gamist", after we've filtered out poly'gamist and friends, refer directly to Edwards or refer to Mäkelä (who used GNS theory). American studies: Volume 21 uses a gamist, simulationist, dramatist breakdown, but their definition of gamist seems pretty close to GNS theory's. One seems to use Gamist for a made-up fictional race or group. I see no evidence that what you call "everyday usage" has been used in print, outside two magazine references in the 1980s that used gamist for gamer and gamemaker respectively. [/QUOTE]

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