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    Cadet Stimpy
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    Dash  ·  
    Jul 16, 2021
    Edited: Jul 16, 2021

    This week, with my GP, I played:

    in Feeling Chatty

    Argh, this wasn't supposed to be in "News and Rumors", so Admins, please move it to "Feeling Chatty", if possible. Thanks in advance. I'll explain later, to express my innocence.


    Near and Far

    (This probably isn't the way you'd actually lay-it-out, but I was too lazy to find a better picture). We were playing a Campaign (over a couple of years) and we finally finished. I really liked this game. Maybe I'm 'campaign' oriented. I've been toyin' with the idea of owning Sleeping Gods, but I need to research it more.

    Image Source: BGG (ah..., sorry for the jumbo picture)

    Bunny Kingdom

    Image Source: BGG

    Cover Your Kingdom

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    Zerbique
    Jul 16, 2021
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    I've always felt drawn to Bunny Kingdom but... one cannot own all games! It sat in my wishlist for long at the very least.


    Regarding what the "Hentaur" says... I'm very curious why people started to interpret 'taur' as meaning basically something you can combine with animal names to refer to mythological man-animal hybrids. Like the "cheetaur" in Kitara.


    I'm not saying people shouldn't (it's fun, and we all understand what it means), I'm just curious about it.


    I also didn't know that you were a Near & Far fan! Glad to see you enjoy it so much!

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    Zerbique
    Jul 17, 2021
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    @Cadet Stimpy "centaur" has been re-analyzed into "cen" + "taur" (whatever these two words may mean) and "taur" has been re-used to be combined with other words "hentaur", "cheetaur", etc., as if it were a meaningful unit. But "taur" doesn't mean anything that warrants its use in "cheetaur", "hentaur", etc.


    Same with "hamburger". It has been re-interpreted as "ham + burger" so you can switch "ham" with whatever you want, even though there has never been ham in a hamburger in the first place.


    By contrast, "werewolf" has been productively reused in words such as "wererat" or "werebear", but here that makes sense because "werewolf" is literally "man + wolf", so you can have "man + rat", "man + bear", etc.

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    Cadet Stimpy
    Jul 17, 2021
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    @Zerbique Thanks, Z, now I get it. Re-reading the first burger Comment, it makes sense now. I dunno why I didn't get it the first time. Guess I was a bit delirious. 😀 I wouldn't doubt if there's some bizarre word that actually defines when you combine words that don't really go together. It might be Morphology. But there is this!

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    Zerbique
    Jul 17, 2021
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    @Cadet Stimpy It sure falls within the fall of morphology (the study of the formation of words, if I am not mistaken).


    Actually, fun fact. In the "hamburger" article in Wikipedia, the emergence of "burger" is described as an instance of back-formation. But "burger" from "hamburger" is also quoted as a featured example in the rebracketing article. And it's also a key example of the folk etymology article.


    "Folk etymology" is just a despising, classist word to say "people do weird things with language". Back-formation and rebracketing are examples of such "folk etymology".


    Rebracketing occurs for hamburger (hamburg + er > ham + burger): how you split the word into parts has changed. Because of that "burger" got re-interpreted as a unit that can combine, leading to the back-formation of the other words of the family.


    So, terminology is muddy, uninsighftul, and a bit haughty. But Wikipedia is nice and helpful as usual.

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