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Uh - I don't have any idea. I can't even make a guess. I thought YOU were going to answer some question. I only offered a word that was PFA.
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05-10-2009, 07:50 PM | #137 |
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Oh my.
Well, anyway, what is PFA?
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05-10-2009, 07:54 PM | #138 |
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http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=PFA
See number 5, but air is the PC term. Try a bit lower and behind you.
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Pulled from ASS. no not a donkey - Geez, get your context right no not the opposite of left, the other right as in correct.... oh nevermind.
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05-10-2009, 08:05 PM | #141 |
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C-man, what the hell are you smokin'? I can't understand anything you just said, aside from PFA can mean either Pulled From Air or Pulled From Ass.
I'm still working on "tray a bit and..."
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05-10-2009, 08:10 PM | #142 |
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I corrected that silly woman! There was a misspelling in the post - no not a post for a fence, the internet kinda post.
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05-10-2009, 08:17 PM | #143 |
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Ohhhhhhh...maybe it's me.
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05-10-2009, 08:24 PM | #144 |
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I think you're both swaying pretty high in the breeze actually. lol
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Fortunately for you, I don't have to force-feed you a smilie right now, as context is provided in an infobox elsewhere in the article. The code names for this block of three expansions are given there, as live, long and prosper. However, the context that is needed to disambiguate this also requires knowledge of Star Trek and the thematic naming conventions employed in MtG expansions. Now, why must we endure that kind of rigmarole? Why must we keep resorting to context in this manner just because some stuffy old pedants won't allow any needed changes to be introduced? If we cut the totally useless silent e from live (the verb; the silent e in live the adjective is OK because it marks the long vowel), then we wouldn't need any context to identify the shade of meaning of the word when given in isolation, as it is in the article.
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Except then it would read Liv...which is a woman's nick name.
So, Kingswood, tell me, wuold you also have a page of disambiguation to assure us that the Liv in question didn't refer to a female character in that game?
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I also did not give you sufficient credit at the time in your previous post, as I had the distraction of a heavy and nasty cold at the time. Only later, as the combination of the cold symptoms and side effects of medication prevented my sleeping did I give further consideration to your little remark about "word shapes". That is important. The French Academy introduced accents to the French language in the 18th century for that exact reason - to reform the orthography without changing the word shapes too much. Let's suppose that spellings were reformed in a reasonable manner. Many of the changes would involve single-letter alterations (deletions, substitutions and additions). Deleting a letter from hearken, leather would give harken, lether (harken is already an established variant spelling); inserting a missing letter into shadow would give shaddow; substituting a letter in meadow would give meddow. While these spellings won't be liked by the fans of current spellings, these are all plausible spellings that would have resulted had English spelling been updated systematically sometime in the last 250 years. The shape of the word does not change much, but irregularity is removed. The shape of words would change more if words containing the notorious tetragraph ough had that combination removed. I venture that the word shapes of the ough words is not actually that useful for word recognition, as in some words one must look carefully at the other letters in the word just to work out which of ten different pronunciations to use for the ough. Which is easier to read: tough, though, through, trough, thorough, or tuff, tho, thru, troff or thurro? Your point about some people being worse off is important. However, if changes were done with care, the number of people made worse off would be substantially fewer than those who would benefit.
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Come back when you know how proper nouns are spelt.
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The name 'Liv' is in common currency. In a title like the one you just mentioned, 'Live' is spelt with a capital letter. In the title you suggest the article would read:
"Zendikar (codenamed Liv) is a Magic: The Gathering expansion set, set to be released on October 2, 2009." Tell me again, why 'Liv' in that context couldn't refer to a female character called 'Liv'? In what way have I demonstrated that I don't know how to spell proper nouns? Because I used a nick-name? They are commonly used in fiction, so why not gaming? You offered an example of how spelling reform might disambiguate but in fact it offers alternative areas of confusion. It's no more a stretch than your original example. For all I know the character's in-game name might be Liv Tyler. *smiles* unlikely yes. But there's no reason why a character wouldn't be called Liv. Any more than there's a reason there wouldn't be a 'Liz' or a 'Bob' or a 'Chuck'.
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