Troll v Gate

[nikulai]

I know, sounds like something SCOTUS should be hearing

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[redsquirrel]

Hey, in Trimaris I still live in 'CratWorld. EVERYONE is a 'Crat. *sigh* Autocrat. Feastcrat. Nastycrat. (Takes care of cleaning and stocking the potties.) Gatecrat. Rescrat. (Reservations) Oddly enough, we don't have Trolls because Reservations and Gate are separate functions - Gate controls who gets in and gives your initial receipt slip, Reservations takes cash and reconciles the gate receipt slips with attendance. (Historical reason for this - under one Kingdom Exchequer everyone who attended Kingdom events paid with checks for some reason...nobody paid cash...yeah, there was an R&D there...so now one copy of the gate slips goes directly to the Seneschal.)

While I much prefer Event Steward and Gate, at least Autocrat and Troll are internally consistent words. But tacking a Greek suffix onto Germanic and Latin root words...*shudder* Languages change and grow and new words are introduced all the time, but ones made like that are completely inelegant and just plain UGLY. Some things are simply ...wrong.

I wage a polite one woman campaign against the use of 'crats but for the most part I am a voice in the wilderness. There are some purists who agree with me but most gentles cheerfully use them and cannot comprehend why this should bother me so.

[nikulai]

You remind me of my observation some years back that Yiddish words are conjugated in English... to daven is davening, to kvetch is kvetching, etc.

[thatursula]

For Ymir I decided I'd rather use "Privyteer" instead of Nastycrat. (Or one could really get into the whole schtick thing.. "Yessir, I be Ploppy the Slopper."