Did GGG Purposely mispell Samnite?

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Shagsbeard wrote:

You all realize that the letters we use today weren't even in existence when these people were around. Arguing about how their name is spelled is silly.

Of course it matters.

The translation from either another language, or symbols / hieroglyphics before that, still have to be correct for the persons doing the translation.

Samite and Samnite are very different, and thus spelling matters.

So while I tend to agree this isn't a big deal overall, to simply say that spelling or translation doesn't matter is a ridiculously obtuse point of view.

As an educator you should know better. Can we strive for a bit more than "meh it's close enough"?

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DarthSki44 wrote:

Of course it matters.

The translation from either another language, or symbols / hieroglyphics before that, still have to be correct for the persons doing the translation.

Samite and Samnite are very different, and thus spelling matters.

So while I tend to agree this isn't a big deal overall, to simply say that spelling or translation doesn't matter is a ridiculously obtuse point of view.

As an educator you should know better. Can we strive for a bit more than "meh it's close enough"?

Being an educator doesn't tell you much about a person's knowledge outside of their field though. Especially the higher level you go, you may be tempted to think that the doctorate means they're really smart but in my experience it just as often means they're so focused on their specialization it has come at the expense of breadth of knowledge.

I've had history teachers who can't add and subtract two digit numbers in their heads. And as we see here you can find plenty of math and comp sci teachers who don't appreciate the nuances of the humanities.

/shrug

"Spelling" wasn't even a thing until about 300 years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-language_spelling_reform#:~:text=Modern%20English%20spelling%20developed%20from,%2C%20button%2C%20etc.).

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innervation wrote:

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DarthSki44 wrote:

Of course it matters.

The translation from either another language, or symbols / hieroglyphics before that, still have to be correct for the persons doing the translation.

Samite and Samnite are very different, and thus spelling matters.

So while I tend to agree this isn't a big deal overall, to simply say that spelling or translation doesn't matter is a ridiculously obtuse point of view.

As an educator you should know better. Can we strive for a bit more than "meh it's close enough"?

Being an educator doesn't tell you much about a person's knowledge outside of their field though. Especially the higher level you go, you may be tempted to think that the doctorate means they're really smart but in my experience it just as often means they're so focused on their specialization it has come at the expense of breadth of knowledge.

I've had history teachers who can't add and subtract two digit numbers in their heads. And as we see here you can find plenty of math and comp sci teachers who don't appreciate the nuances of the humanities.

/shrug

This is a fair point, but I believe Shags field is/was English/Composition, which should be applicable here imo.

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Shagsbeard wrote:

"Spelling" wasn't even a thing until about 300 years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-language_spelling_reform#:~:text=Modern%20English%20spelling%20developed%20from,%2C%20button%2C%20etc.).

That's a massively thin argument when you know that words mean different things based on their arrangement of letters. To say the Roman's didnt have "spelling" is absurd, just because we changed the definition later on.

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Nubatron wrote:

It could be a purposeful change, given that this is clearly a different world/history to their game, so they borrowed from our history but changed the name slightly to make it feel different.

You would have a better chance of getting an answer on Reddit unfortunately.

A world that still has Inuit and Poles

"Zana followed the haunting melody through the map device and finally caught up with the Elderslayers, who had sneaked off without her to check out a Tanya Tagaq concert. Her cheeks flamed. 'What sort of dire magic is this witch using that overrides all my warnings?' even as she began to feel warm and fuzzy inside from the song of the North."

"The hussar folded up his neat dress uniform and placed his parade brigandine back on its armour stand. His back attachment, which cost him many credits, fluttered faintly in the swirling air. 'Tak, mamo' he called as he bounded down the stairs, two at a time, to help crank the old meat grinder, from which two decades of kielbasa had issued to build his shoulders strong and wide."

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DarthSki44 wrote:

This is a fair point, but I believe Shags field is/was English/Composition, which should be applicable here imo.

Shags is a Math prof.
Or Maths if you are British ;)

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DoubleU wrote:

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DarthSki44 wrote:

This is a fair point, but I believe Shags field is/was English/Composition, which should be applicable here imo.

Shags is a Math prof.
Or Maths if you are British ;)

Lol my bad.

Yup. My linguistics background is three courses in college and a bunch of years at Ren Faire. The Romans didn't "spell" like we do. That's a Victorian hang up. Shagsbeard is even based on one of the many spellings that Shakespeare used for his own name. If you study his original scripts, he would spell the same word differently even in the same play.

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Shagsbeard wrote:

Yup. My linguistics background is three courses in college and a bunch of years at Ren Faire. The Romans didn't "spell" like we do. That's a Victorian hang up. Shagsbeard is even based on one of the many spellings that Shakespeare used for his own name. If you study his original scripts, he would spell the same word differently even in the same play.

This is one of the points I bring up from time to time on my Minecraft server when the numpties start making fun of some poor dyslexic kid's spelling. "Hey bumstain, did you know that Shakespeare spelled his own name ~12 different ways at various times? So before you knock someone else's grammar, go write 40 plays that help define a modern spoken language and come back and we'll see."