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2021-01-13, 10:59 AM (ISO 8601)
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2021-01-13, 02:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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dilatory
dil•a•to•ry dĭl′ə-tôr″ē►
adj. Causing or intended to cause delay.
adj. Characterized by or given to delay or slowness: synonym: slow.
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2021-01-16, 02:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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More words, and hopefully none that gets censored.
nepenthes (n): a drug described in The Odyssey as banishing grief or trouble from a person's mind; a drug or potion that brings welcome forgetfulness
abecedarian (adj): arranged alphabetically; rudimentary
zhug (n): Yemeni hot sauce of hot peppers, garlic, and coriander
orography (n): branch of physical geeography that deals with mountains
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2021-01-16, 07:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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I've just seen some archaic words misused yet again, so I'd like to clarify. "Here", "there", and "where" have other forms where the "-ere" ending is changed to include a preposition. Using those forms with a preposition is redundant. Saying "go back from whence you came" is like saying "go back from where you came from". It's too many "froms". It's just "go back whence you came".
Here = this place
There = that place
Where = which place
Hither = to this place
Thither = to that place
Whither = to which place
Hence = away from this place
Thence = away from that place
Whence = away from which place
Also, while I'm at it, the -st verb ending is for 2nd person singular. 3rd person singular uses -th instead of the modern -s.
I go, I do
We go, we do
Thou goest, thou dost
You go, you do
He/she/it/one goeth, he/she/it/one doth
They go, they do
My/mine and thy/thine as possessives follow the same rule as a/an: I have mine eyes on my book. Thou hast thine own book so readest thy book as I read mine.The Curse of the House of Rookwood: Supernatural horror and family drama.
Ash Island: Personal survival horror in the vein of Silent Hill.
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2021-01-17, 05:11 AM (ISO 8601)
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Of course hence is mostly a conjunction nowadays. Hence I'm going hence.
Yeah, the problem with this is language lives. Irregardless may be redundant, but if the majority uses it that way that's how it ends up being. Regardless of how it "should" be.
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2021-01-18, 12:50 AM (ISO 8601)
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The Curse of the House of Rookwood: Supernatural horror and family drama.
Ash Island: Personal survival horror in the vein of Silent Hill.
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2021-01-18, 03:02 AM (ISO 8601)
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That's right, it's no longer living language. It's dead language. And when you go looking for old words that are no longer in use and begin intentionally using them in the modern era it becomes undead language.
Murphy said 'whatever can go wrong, will go wrong'.
I say Murphy was an incurable optimist.
In my experience, even things that can't go wrong... often do.
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2021-01-18, 06:12 AM (ISO 8601)
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Outdated archaic language can very well change, the action of using in itself makes it living, if indeed trying to apply it wholesale is what is being done. Not to mention "trying to sound old-timey" is a new use case that really has little to do with actual archaic language. It's just scenery. A children's school play uses cardboard trees in the background to tell us that the story is happening in a forest, we don't need real actual trees to do that.
And outdated archaic language itself was never really "set" either. You can't talk about how it was used because it was used differently by everyone. When rules were invented for various things, and that's quite recent, it was a concern for a tiny minority. The average person in the time of thence would have less idea what you are talking about than we do.
See now there's a concept I'm liking. That's really exactly what happens when you cosplay archaic speech.Last edited by snowblizz; 2021-01-18 at 06:13 AM.
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2021-01-18, 07:30 AM (ISO 8601)
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2021-01-18, 11:14 AM (ISO 8601)
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“Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”
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2021-01-19, 12:45 AM (ISO 8601)
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2021-01-19, 01:55 AM (ISO 8601)
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More likely at some place that makes Hogwarts look good.
I know, I know. The mind boggles, etc.
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2021-01-19, 02:13 AM (ISO 8601)
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2021-01-19, 07:54 AM (ISO 8601)
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2021-01-19, 08:02 AM (ISO 8601)
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2021-01-19, 08:08 AM (ISO 8601)
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Extirpate : to remove or destroy totally; do away with; exterminate.
"The new king decided to extirpate the Catholics from the land."
@v YES! That's exactly where I read it!Last edited by Scarlet Knight; 2021-01-19 at 08:46 PM.
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2021-01-19, 08:36 AM (ISO 8601)
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2021-01-19, 08:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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Yes but that's that's just how the GW authors render it to give us an feeling for what it is.
The Imperium of Man, if we pretend that it is actually real doesn't speak English and their archaic language is not bad Latin.
They speak Something, and use an archaic Precursor to Something language for terminology when they want to be fancy. We just get it rendered into something equivalent that works for us.
Funnily enough having bad Precursor language works, no one really knows or speaks the ancient Precursor language in the Imperium Man. Like so much else they are just aping what came before.
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2021-01-19, 09:20 AM (ISO 8601)
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In-universe, English stands for Low Gothic and Latin for High Gothic but that doesn't work because High Gothic is supposed to be the common language of mankind during the 31st millenium. But that doesn't work because the characters from that time period transpoanted into the 41st millenium don't have issues communicating with anybody and the works set in the 31st millenium still uses both. Result: it's obvious they're just speaking English and bad Latin.
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2021-01-19, 11:09 AM (ISO 8601)
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But High Gothic isn't meant to be literally like bad Latin, as much as someone speaking High Gothic in WH40K just feels like someone speaking Latin IRL.
If you don't speak it, it sounds impressive, perhaps even a little terrifying. If you know a little, it sounds pretentious. If you know it fluently, you're probably too important to call pretentious, or some sort of demon.Hi, I'm back, I guess. ^_^I cosplay and stream LPs of single player games on Twitch! Mon, Wed & Fri; currently playing: Nier: Replicant (Mon/Wed) and The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons (Thurs or Fri)
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2021-01-20, 11:44 AM (ISO 8601)
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Connubially (adv) - in the manner of a husband and wife.
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2021-01-20, 02:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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2021-01-20, 03:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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In RPG nerd circles this is known as a 'DaWizard' problem, from when TSR decided they were going to change their official style guide and replace references to 'mages' with 'wizards'. This resulted in a very similar lazy implementation and caused longswords to deal 1d8 dawizard..
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2021-01-20, 03:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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When I do find/replace I prefer to include characters around what I am actually changing so I know I am not getting parts of other words. I am not sure that such was possible back in the 80s and 90s, but I like to use leading or trailing spaces or punctuation marks. Also, while it was probably a pain in the 80s and 90s, there are ways to have text editors show all the places that were replaced so you can check them.
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2021-01-20, 04:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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Frankly, I just avoid the find and replace in the first place. In part because going through the document manually tends to result in me finding plenty of other things I need to fix.
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2021-01-20, 09:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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Persiflage: light frivolous conversation , style, or treatment ; friendly teasing
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2021-01-21, 01:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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2021-01-21, 04:27 AM (ISO 8601)
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Feeder in games :D I didnt know what it mean a lot of years, and now one good person have explained me who i am :D I'm crying x)
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2021-01-21, 11:37 AM (ISO 8601)
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Having to make major edits tells me you didn't spend enough time on the planning and outline stage. Or you started writing while still doing your research, which is really just wasted effort.
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2021-01-21, 06:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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