From: Alex Ferguson (alex@dcs.gla.ac.uk)
Date: Wed 31 Aug 1994 - 11:56:41 EEST
Alison Place:
> In 1988, TSR (used to stand for Tactical Studies Rules, now
>stands for nothing in particular)
Now stands for They Sue Regularly, no? SJG did a Useless Table of these, once...
Sandy:
> Given that North Americans actually
> live in a country where both moose and elk exist, whereas our British
> and German friends don't have any of 'em, unless you count the
> undersized Red Deer, you'd think they'd give more credence to our
> debased American interpretations of these beasts.
We might, if you'd managed to take the term originally applied to one of these two in Europe, and affix it to the right one when you straggled over to your current continent. "Ah yes, this fierce, noble beast here must be the Elk, the thing we kept falling over laughing at back home. Shoot that fellow over there mumbling something about a `wapiti'."
Oh, and I think Joerg and I can both claim to have cohabited, country-wise, with _Alces alces_, so there. <*schblerrrt!*> (Okay, not that I actually _saw_ one... Lot of magpies, though.)
> Joerg
> >If you mean the red deer of Europe, that's at most SIZ 13, not the
> >SIZ 22 buggers you talk about below.
> The "Deer" of the RuneQuest Official Monsters Book is in fact
> the European Red Deer (which is bigger than SIZ 13, at least for
> bucks).
Bucks, schmux. "Harts", or "stags", please. The deer stats seemed red-deer-ish enough to me. But _Cervus canadensis_ isn't _that_ much bigger, is it? Egads, of all the weirdest, of all possible stats, to end up lacking after the Great RQ3 deGloranthasisation...
> >English hasn't been heard in the United States for a century.
> While I cheerfully accept such billingsgate from ostensible
> English speakers, I balk at doing so from someone whose native tongue
> is another Germanic language entirely.
I don't think "Germanic language" adequately villifies English as it was when the English got their hands on it, never mind after what everyone else has done to it since.
Hoots mon.
Alex.
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