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Old 12-05-2013, 06:41 PM   #61
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I've seen it a lot too. But to be on the safe side, I'll just have all my characters use guns, light sabers, daggers and swords! Or if they shoot arrows maybe I can skip that whole loading sequence...
Yeah, I used to read about light sabers, like you, but then I took an arrow in the knee...

Ahem. Sorry.
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Old 12-05-2013, 07:02 PM   #62
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I was just cleaning it and it went off, I swear!
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Old 12-05-2013, 07:18 PM   #63
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I've never heard an archer say "notch", but if Wikipedia's right, I guess I shouldn't be a snob about it. I still don't like it, though, and if you'll excuse me, I think there are kids on my lawn.
"When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean" so feel free to say nock. That's what I learned when I took archery in college lo these many years ago. As long as people understand you who cares whether they think you're right or wrong-all that matters is your own opinion of yourself.
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Old 12-05-2013, 08:06 PM   #64
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Yeah, I used to read about light sabers, like you, but then I took an arrow in the knee...

Ahem. Sorry.
"Darn combat knee injury..."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClXmfZcma7c
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Old 12-05-2013, 08:38 PM   #65
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Old 12-05-2013, 08:52 PM   #66
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Man. What a weird thread.

I feel another meme coming up.

"He talked in one, looong, incredibly unbroken sentence, moving from topic to topic...."

(@ 1 minute mark)

Damn. I've got a brain so full of weird shit from the past
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Man. What a weird thread.

I feel another meme coming up.

"He talked in one, looong, incredibly unbroken sentence, moving from topic to topic...."

(@ 1 minute mark)

Damn. I've got a brain so full of weird shit from the past
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Old 12-06-2013, 04:48 AM   #68
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"When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean" so feel free to say nock. That's what I learned when I took archery in college lo these many years ago. As long as people understand you who cares whether they think you're right or wrong-all that matters is your own opinion of yourself.
The important thing to remember, is the person who has just nocked or notched an arrow has a loaded bow, whichever word they want to use is now correct.
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Old 12-06-2013, 09:06 AM   #69
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[QUOTE=calvin-c;2704719]You mean an apostrophe, don't you? [QUOTE]

What a fool I am, yes thank you I did mean apostrophe. I suppose it would be wise to edit very, very carefully one's own diatribes concerning other people's grammar and spelling errors.
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Old 12-06-2013, 09:14 AM   #70
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186,000 miles per second: It's not just a good idea, it's the law.
299,792,458 m/s to be exact. (Or a tiny bit more than 186,282.397 miles per second.)
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Old 12-06-2013, 09:16 AM   #71
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[QUOTE=usuallee;2705485][QUOTE=calvin-c;2704719]You mean an apostrophe, don't you?
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What a fool I am, yes thank you I did mean apostrophe. I suppose it would be wise to edit very, very carefully one's own diatribes concerning other people's grammar and spelling errors.
Well, it is funny when people don't edit carefully during such comments. I read one yesterday or the day before where the reader was complaining about indie works that had poor grammar and spelling. She used "we're" for were and misspelled too as to.
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Old 12-06-2013, 09:24 AM   #72
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Therefore, I said "According to Wikipedia". I wouldn't trust it blindly.

However, I read a lot of fantasy (so, there's quite a lot o bow and arrow stuff in there), and I've actually seen "notch an arrow" *far* more often than "nock an arrow". I have actually wondered if this was a difference between American and British English, or some other sort of weirdness.
Dialecticon shows that "nock an arrow" is preferred everywhere. (US 85%, UK 77%, Australia 83%)

[UPDATE! But Google's N-gram viewer shows that the preferences for nocked over notched is a modern phenomenon, with nocked only gaining significant ground over the past 20 years, and before that they were used about equally.]

(My pet hate is people who write about arrows being fired from bows....)
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Old 12-06-2013, 09:29 AM   #73
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Maybe I should read more fantasy authors then
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Old 12-06-2013, 10:35 AM   #74
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(My pet hate is people who write about arrows being fired from bows....)
What's wrong with "fired"? What do you prefer? launched? propelled? shot?
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Pdurrant has never seen my archery. There was fire involved. Only the once, but yanno, where there is straw...
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