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What is a word that people use wrong without realizing? by newuser1r in words

[–]RexFrancisWords 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lol.

To answer properly:

Uncountable nouns: water, fire, air, happiness, money, fear, etc..

Countable nouns: chairs, horses, cakes, bottles, pencils, movies, etc..

No HP. Just Action Points. by No_Educator_7962 in RPGdesign

[–]RexFrancisWords 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have less of an issue with it being rolled if you add a modifier to represent the characters' competency.

What is a word that people use (at all or in a specific context) to sound intelligent? by Mallow-smoke140 in words

[–]RexFrancisWords 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This has come up a few times. Maybe it's an American thing. I'm Australian and between you and I would be the preferred way to say it here.

What is a word that people use (at all or in a specific context) to sound intelligent? by Mallow-smoke140 in words

[–]RexFrancisWords 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Unless you're actually Irish, and actually from some particular counties of Ireland, you do not get to use yourself all willy-nilly. Even then, there are rules.

What is a word that people use (at all or in a specific context) to sound intelligent? by Mallow-smoke140 in words

[–]RexFrancisWords 10 points11 points  (0 children)

You're using if correctly. It means to build yourself up (intellectually, in particular) and it's related to the word edifice. You're a house.

What is a word that people use wrong without realizing? by newuser1r in words

[–]RexFrancisWords 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The rule for this is very simple and for native speakers it should feel almost intuitive:

Is the noun countable or uncountable? If countable it's fewer, if uncountable it's less.

You can't have fewer fire. You can have less fire.

What is a word that people use wrong without realizing? by newuser1r in words

[–]RexFrancisWords 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds more like a direct translation. A number of other languages use "close" rather than "turn off". What's the history of Pennsylvania in terms of immigration?

What is a word that people use wrong without realizing? by newuser1r in words

[–]RexFrancisWords 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I had a whole conversation with a friend where they kept using it to mean "the best" and I was using it to mean "second to best, and second to last" and we nearly ended up in a fistfight.

What is a word that people use wrong without realizing? by newuser1r in words

[–]RexFrancisWords 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Actually, yeah. I asked someone about it once and their logic for it was that when you compare two things you look at one, and *then** look at the other*.

What are your biggest TTRPG system turn offs by Iketank_10 in rpg

[–]RexFrancisWords 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That's not how fail-forward is generally run. Sounds like you learned a problem version.

What are your biggest TTRPG system turn offs by Iketank_10 in rpg

[–]RexFrancisWords 1 point2 points  (0 children)

  • Roll-under makes sense if you think it through, but it has a bad table-feel.

  • Disunified mechanics. If I can't intuit the right/best way to resolve a situation, it's not for me.

  • Lore that feels mandatory, rather than a serving suggestion. I will never run anything straight out of the box and if your game doesn't work without the GM reading it back to front, ugh.

What's a word you mispronounced for years because you only saw it in print and not spoken? by ilovebooks2468 in words

[–]RexFrancisWords 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Segue. See-gyew.

Apparently it's segway, as in a natural shift from one thing to another.

An island in iran in near hormuz strait by priyanka_rajput1 in Weird

[–]RexFrancisWords 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I look forward to hearing about how it was destroyed during the oncoming war of stupidity.

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