metadigital

I'm glad we ARE having the discussion, as it can get a little difficult to self-study latin when there are so many different "authorities" (considering that "classical" latin never actually existed, but is an abstract taken from an approximate period in the Roman civilization timeline, beyond which it had already started to mutate); nevertheless, I do apologise: you are correct, and it has been far too long since I sat down at my desk and did some latin homework (Bad meta): dative is the indirect possessive, true. (I still haven't been brave enough to start on Attic Greek, though I did read Paul Cartledge's The Spartans. :D ) Still, would dative be appropriate? Indirect possessive object ? Surely it's a direct object of the sentence?

I thought it was called religion ... "

Don't care much for his tailor.

No. It's actually speeding up (that's one of the reasons why they had to invent "dark energy".

Right, now you're speaking double dutch! Dative is the indirect object (or recipient); Genitive is the possessive, Ablative is for agents / instruments or sources expressed by "by", "with" or "from". So a "dative possessive" is just not making any sense to me, it's either-or. I was miffed by my dictionary, as I couldn't determine the correct form of "iaciam", let alone conjugate it properly (hence my lack of certainty about the "t"!). I might pick up a copy of Latin Grammar (Gildersleeve, B.L. and G. Lodge) or New Latin Grammar (Allen, Joseph Henry and J.B. Greenough) ... Edit: ooo, a new version!

Try finding anything about one of the smaller allies ... :confused: Speaking of WW2 stories from unusual perspectives, I might pick up the Iwo Jimo DVD from Woolworths (<

That's the burden we carry for a symbolic brain: we see patterns everywhere, even when they aren't there ...

Furicide?

Society in a petri dish ... make perfect sense that virtual communities echo real life frontier badlands ... at least until we invent an effective police force ...

Trees.

... Or both.

Where is this new plane, then? I thought the 666 layers of the Abyss was THE Chaotic Evil plane ...

Looking at the (necessary) complexity of the underlying mechanics, I would be loathe to actually DM a game, unless I had a computer with all the algorithms programmed for use at my fingertips ...

wait what

One day you might actually BE a boss (scary thought), then you will see the flaw in your logic. Until then, there isn't much I can say that will grant you the paradigm shift you require to understand how wrong you really are.

Fortunately sewerage has a large constituent of methane, which is highly flammable.

wait what

Volo, we're talking about a job IN CUSTOMER SERVICE; the job description is to HELP THE CUSTOMER. In a very real sense, if there is no customer, then there is no job for the rep.

I've heard a competing version of the origin of "bog standard", apparently from the time of the European colonization of Africa, when the basic requirement for goods was that they were a minimum of British or German standards, which became BoG. In the neuroscientist anthropologist Dr Terrence Deacon's groundbreaking book on The Symbolic Species, which is subtitled The Co-Evolution of Language and the Human Brain, he argues that languages have undergone evolution under the Baldwinian effect, too, so that languages that are harder to learn have less chance of survival versus those that are easier. Excellent book, btw, I recommend it very highly.

Heh, Ultima ]I['s "Marks and Cards" ... I remember my friend got all the marks and cards, then realized that he had to get the marks on ALL the characters in the party ... boy did that suck! I suppose the corollary to this topic is "RPGs that you have finished through gritted teeth". :D

Oblivion has radioactive grass?

Unless it suffers a cold death (expands too fast for gravity to pull it all back into another crunch). And we still don't know if Dark Matter and Dark Energy really DO make up 75% of the mass of the universe.

Because you like to wear leather pants and reverse comb your lubricated hair ?

What don't you understand, Bok? If the universe is infinite, then there should be stars in every direction (distance is irrelevant, except to work out time, but we'll get to that later). If there are stars in every direction, then there should be light in every direction. Right? The only reason that there isn't light in every direction is that the universe isn't old enough: in an infinite amount of time, the sky will be white with light because there WILL be stars in every direction.

There is another consideration, too: aristocracy (and royalty in extremis) gain rank much faster than others (call it a hangover from when the aristocracy paid for their own regiments), so a member of the royal family wouldn't be a grunt (at all) for much time ... the fact that both the Princes are serving as soldiers is pretty amazing in itself. I'd have expected them to be made Officers of some level beyond skirmishes almost before they passed basic training. After all, they are "born to command". (Yes, I am aware that in order to command it is necessary to learn to follow, but in my experience Britain isn't. ;p )