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helline9 — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:00:07 -0000

Actually American English is technically a different language to British English but minor technical details...

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Adam Halls — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:59:59 -0000

I have yet to hear or read anyone use "primered" or "orientated." I think you have just made them up. Those are almost certainly wrong because, as you noted, words already exist that sound similar and describe the same thing.

But what is wrong with costed? Cost is a verb that means "to apply a price to" mongst other meanings. A grocer needs to "cost" the items in his shop. The verb "price" is the neologism here; cost is the older form.

Similarly my father works as a quantity surveyor and his job is primarily the "costing" of various building materials i.e. contacting different suppliers to find out what prices they charge(American)/what their costs(British) are.

Cost is a perectly legitimate verb and can be conjugated as such, to cost, costing, costed, will cost.

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Dantethegolden — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:57:49 -0000

i really dig tastytaste's articles. they examine the culture surrounding our nerddom, not just the game itself. it's refreshing.

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Tom Harris — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:12:10 -0000

I'm going to go hit myself in the head with a thunder hammer for two hours, and try to forget that one. Seriously, you could have gone without posting that thing here...

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Tom Harris — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:09:08 -0000

The scary part is, it was punctuated with punctuation marks, not blows to the head. And lots of the words had multiple syllables. No kicking grots in the middle either. The heck with 40K causing us to murder the Queen's english, it's making the Orks speak it better than we can! ;P

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Donald Lindsey — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:51:02 -0000

I can't bring myself to actually post..."first" I do like getting the first post just to keep someone else for just posting one word.

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gridespider — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:42:57 -0000

I bet we have Alessio Cavitore to thank for that cluster f.

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bbqsac — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:50:53 -0000

whilst i may be wong, my understanding of 'sub-par' is that sub = below/ under; hence submarines are under water and that par = average/ mean; ergo its use in golf to refer to the average number of strokes expected to get the ball in the hole. thusly sub-par means below average. please correct me if i am wrong, being from the colonies "our english 'aint that faarkin' good, aye"

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Chaosgerbil — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:08:32 -0000

There's an old stylistic rule for abbreviations, where you write out the full term the first time you use it and then you can use the abbreviation. This is a good rule of thumb for articles but for brief blog posts and forum comments you won't see that much.

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LordSandwich — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:01:37 -0000

What? How is it hard to remember what a Mech MEQ list is?

[/sarcasm]

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LordSandwich — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:53:47 -0000

Writing style? I'm sorry, but some things aren't writing style, they're lack of proofreading.

For example: "alfdk sfdjqqp kwfpqo lkskasdf" is not a unique writing style for saying "Hello, how are you?", it's me mashing the keyboard. Saying: "Hlelo" is not a unique writing style for saying "Hello".

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LordSandwich — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:49:34 -0000

Work in a lab, do you?

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evil_termite — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:49:24 -0000

When I did R/C cars in high school, I had to learn a lot of new words. The cars had tons of parts, and almost every part had its own name. I'm sure there were some slang words thrown into the mix as well. It wasn't a problem. When someone used a word I didn't understand, I would ask. People in hobbies seem to like to talk about them so they don't act like you are a moron when they tell you the answer.

It's the same in Warhammer 40K. I got into the hobby about 2.5 years ago and I had hardly any trouble adapting to the language that I was reading. Sure there were a lot of new words to describe all the model types, but that was part of the fun of it all.

The only slightly annoying part of it was abbreviations which could be tricky sometimes, but all I had to do was ask if I couldn't figure them out.

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LordSandwich — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:45:54 -0000

*sigh* I was looking forward to punching you over the internet for posting "first"...

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Marshal Wilhelm — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:53:30 -0000

How about English words?

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Marshal Wilhelm — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:50:03 -0000

I have really enjoyed this article and the resulting discussions. Very funny. A+

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Marshal Wilhelm — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:39:53 -0000

Then there is GEq - guard equivalent, T3 Sv 5+

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Toggofwar — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:35:04 -0000

As a Brit i can happily say ive never come across a Fluffy nutty, Beardy or cheesey fo shizzle, but no fluffy nutter!

Cheesey and beardy are slighty different however, Cheesey are more powerlists that exploit powerful units straight from the codex with no real synergy....Beardy i believe is more of a knowledgable based abuse of said units, so multiple holo falcons containing firedragons with re-roll saves due to farseer proximity in 4th edition.

"WTF! Check the BRB for RAW, noob! Your made of fail" - average online comment :P

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Toggofwar — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:24:21 -0000

:o Is it possible to unlearn something?

*Reaches for the bottle*

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Myu — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:39:21 -0000

"I sincerely hope this is his final contribution to this site."

That's a bit harsh. I thought he wrote a nice article.

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pad_uk — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:37:30 -0000

Yeah – too true. I mean, the last thing we want is a sensible discussion (well sensible-ish) about something that we have probably all come across.

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Myu — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:35:33 -0000

I'm Australian too, but since this is the internet, I assumed you meant it literally. No harm meant.

Edit:
Woops, I think I miss read your first post, I thought you said "Or you could just SPEAK ENGLISH POINDEXTER!", my bad.

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WasabiSheriff — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:09:25 -0000

I'm not sure who TastyTaste is exactly, but I sincerely hope this is his final contribution to this site.

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Yriel_The_Angelic — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:27:16 -0000

That's it I'm starting the AAAA (Anti-Acronym-Association-of-America) whose in!

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Yriel_The_Angelic — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:23:45 -0000

Killer Klowns from Outer Space is my favorite movie and anyone even referencing it is uBer 1337 to me.....you are officially being invited to my next birthday party....