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Re: The Index of the Giant's Comments IV - A Rich Source of Quotassium
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Re: The Index of the Giant's Comments IV - A Rich Source of Quotassium
So...is that the only such comment you're all thinking should be added?
Principally because I added the section because people were mentioning they couldn't find a "thread history" list; naming the category something else would introduce the same issue.
Also, the Department of Redundancy Department denied it. Twice. Concurrently.FeytouchedBanana eldritch disciple avatar by...me!
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Re: The Index of the Giant's Comments IV - A Rich Source of Quotassium
Actually, it can be both.
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Personally, I feel that the curator (ie you) should also be allowed and encouraged to indicate redirects in places where, for example, Rich's opinion has evolved. For example, an annotation that says something like "For Rich's latest expressed opinion on this topic, see quote X under section Y." However such comments are probably unnecessary when doing things like pointing out that comic page X has made a quote redundant.
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Re: The Index of the Giant's Comments IV - A Rich Source of Quotassium
I never understood the value of keeping a Q&A "in its entirety", unless certain questions are linked to others, such as follow-up questions for example. But these 3 questions are unconnected, they might as well have been asked on a different day. Following the book release, these questions are pure clutter.
EDIT: and adding extra comments after such questions would help with the silly feel, for sure. But at the end of the day, it means adding still more clutter.Last edited by Gwynfrid; 2015-02-25 at 10:51 PM.
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Re: The Index of the Giant's Comments IV - A Rich Source of Quotassium
Delurking... Don't mind me...
What if The Index was ammended to say some version of the following:
"Quotes may not be removed from The Index"?
It might sound silly, but wouldn't that strengthen the supposed-level of viability we look for when adding a quote? That is, wouldn't we be willing to wait an extra week to see if the question is answered in the next strip -- rather than be stuck with a redundant quote? -- or to make sure a quote isn't just being used to answer one (insane) poster's question?
There are other reasons why not removing posts might be useful, too, but I'll leave those for less-sleepy posters to come up with.
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Nitpicking, but since it's derived from Greek, octopodes is the "correct" plural.
However, I am of the opinion that we shouldn't use the history of a word to determine its usage in english, and instead just use whichever plural makes the most sense to the actual, living users of the language, not people who have been dead for centuries, and therefore I think Octopuses is correct as well as Octopi, since so many people use that plural it has become standard.Last edited by littlebum2002; 2015-02-26 at 10:03 AM.
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What hath I wrought?
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The correct plural is the one(s) people understand today, not the one Aristotle or Cicero would have used.
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Re: The Index of the Giant's Comments IV - A Rich Source of Quotassium
Very unlikely, imho. People will take a stand based on what they feel today, not out of some vague sense of responsibility for what might happen in the future.
I don't see a problem in entering a quote that is useful for a certain amount of time, then removing it when its usefulness expires due to the comic's evolution, or to a later quote.
On the other hand I do see a problem with having no rules for clean-up, and even more so, having a rule that explictly forbids de-cluttering.
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This thread is now temporarily "The Grammar and Spelling of the Index of the Giant's Comments." New rules will soon be proposed and voted upon for how to address grammar and spelling issues in the posts here, including whether or not to edit and correct the Giant's own grammar with the same nitpickiness that the forums analyze every other thing that he creates ever ever.
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Re: The Index of the Giant's Comments IV - A Rich Source of Quotassium
Last edited by Tragak; 2015-02-26 at 01:27 PM.
A game is a fictional construct created for the sake of the players, not the other way around. If you have a question "How do I keep X from happening at my table," and you feel that the out-of-game answer "Talk the the other people at your table" won't help, then the in-game answers "Remove mechanics A, B, and/or C, impose mechanics L, M, and/or N" will not help either.
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You have wrought...iron? Maybe cold wrought iron (wrought cold iron?), since silver dragons have the Cold subtype....
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A game is a fictional construct created for the sake of the players, not the other way around. If you have a question "How do I keep X from happening at my table," and you feel that the out-of-game answer "Talk the the other people at your table" won't help, then the in-game answers "Remove mechanics A, B, and/or C, impose mechanics L, M, and/or N" will not help either.
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Speaking as a devil's advocate, I'm personally a fan of sticking to Greek and Latin roots whenever possible, simply because those languages form the roots of so many Romance languages, which means that someone who bothers to learn one or both of the two tongues acquires a dramatic advantage in learning the spelling and grammar of so many modern European languages. In my (admittedly quite limited) experience, it's much easier to learn a language when you have an understanding of how it developed, and don't have to absorb a seemingly arbitrary and endless list of rules in the process. There's some of that no matter what, but minimizing it is always nice.
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My favourite also involves "to"! English doesn't have an indirect object, that was just stolen from Latin without thinking. "I gave the chocolates from France to Jane" has two perfectly normal nouns at the centre of prepositional phrases, but 8th grade English keeps insisting that "Jane" is somehow magical just because it would have been dative-cased by Cicero.
Oh, also the attempts to disallow "It's me!" That's a case where English manages to be more regular than Latin, but heaven forfend we treat copular verbs in English differently than sum, esse, fui, eh?Last edited by Zyzzyva; 2015-02-26 at 09:53 PM.
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*checks thread title*
*checks thread conversation*
A little topic drift is fine. Hell, I do it myself all the time.
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