From: @dcs.gla.ac.uk
Date: Thu 21 Apr 1994 - 22:37:42 EEST
Sandy:
> "No, you can't come along. We're doing a secret Kresh routine."
This doubtless explains why the Doraddi are forming a Kingdom specifically to fight these chaps: Sheer infuriation at the annoyingly smart-arsed beggers. ;-)
> Vithela is where the spirits wait. When the Emperor Passes
> On, the spirits go to the next stage of existence. This place is
> unattainable and unvisitable by normal Gloranthan abilities,
> including Heroquesting.
What, not even a Become-the-Emperor-and-Die HQ?
> The Vormain folks know about Vithela, but I don't know if
> they think they go there.
They may well hedge their bets between indiginous and imported beliefs, to be on the safe side, a la their analogue Japan.
> The wagons are articulatable,
> and can be connected together not only at front and rear, but at the
> sides(!) as well, making a gigantic flexible "blanket" of [Kresh] wagons
> climbing over the countryside.
Roughly how many in total are we typing of?
> Broos aren't primates, for one thing.
> And among humans, if not other primates, intra-group rape is not a
> useful way to express dominance.
> [Much flamage ensues]
Another case of terminological obfuscation: Sandy was (as was moderately clear from context) using the word `dominance' in an animal behavioural sense; many of the followups seem to be taking it to mean dominance in some other, (even) less formal sense. There's no help for this sorta thing, alas, short of all agreeing to speak some more logical language, or annotating all our Big Words to indicate whether we're using them in their animal behavioural, everyday speech, consensually sadomasochistic, Arnold Brown-esque, or some other, sense.
Alex(1).
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