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| Communication isn't always straight forward |
This Sunday Sermon is actually brought to you courtesy of a wonderfully cohesive rant from James S over at the Warp Signal Blog. I think the reason I like that rant so much is because it is cohesive. You see, rambling rants are normally the product of a momentary spike in anger or annoyance. Meanwhile cohesive rants are the byproduct of time, lots of time. They are normally a slow build up of lots of little niggles that form and crystallise deep in somebodies psyche into a diamond hard crystal nugget of pure unadulterated rage or hatred. Call me a sick puppy if you will, but I'm fascinated and drawn to such powerful expressions of opinion. Mainly because they're contagious and seem to infect those that stand too close to them with part of that particular malady. I like the inspiration such things can often breed in others and indeed myself, as long as it doesn't become adversarial.
So James got me to thinking about communication in our hobby. In comments section of his article though you'll see a comment by me about convincing some poor schmuck a couple of years ago that 'donkey-flop las-spam' was an actual thing. There were other 'made up' names, but that was the most ridiculous one I could actually remember that actually worked. He didn't sadly, however, buy into the premise that the only way to make Eldar work was to take the 'Burger King List' with plenty of 'Flame Grilled whoppers'. Perhaps I pushed it a bit too far, but I actually thought the idea of Fire Dragons in wave serpents being called 'Flame Grilled Whoppers' and therefore a spam list of them being called the 'Burger King List', was actually far more plausible than some of the crap I did come out with. It does though touch on part of what James was getting at in his article over at Warp Signal. That as a hobby we are moving into some pretty cringe worthy territory with the language we use. But it also has different and more worrying implication.Read more �
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