Undercover Fat Kid wrote:I'm sorry, the sarcasm didn't carry as well as I'd hoped.I just can't get over people who argue with the author about HIS universe, and not even about something that strains credulity even in a work of fiction, but about what the characters in that work may say, our how they may choose to label a thing. I suppose next someone will take umbrage with "angle-guns" instead of calling them howitzers
I can understand why some people might find themselves confused about why pretty much all sail powered ships on safehold are generically referred to as "galleons" when obviously there were many different names for the many different classes here on earth, but I tend to look at it like cars; it may be a prius or a Malibu; it's still a "car"Undercover Fat Kid wrote:I know it's your story,rfc, and imma let you finish, but you're wrong about your universe and the terminology used there in. Sorry, had to be said
Lolrunsforcelery wrote:In what way? I've used "galleons" the same way, consistently, throughout, both in internal POV from characters and in narrative. I've also described them again and again. I've used the terms "schooner" and "brig" throughout consistently, as well, just as I've been consistent in describing their armaments. If you mean that I'm using existing terms from our historical experience and applying them to ships they were not originally applied to (which is fair enough for "galleon") why, pray tell, should the folks living on Safehold have reinvented the same words that we've used for specific ship types? They've gone from galleys as their primary warship type to broadside-armed sailing ships in just five or six years; you think their terminology would adjust to all the bells and whistles in that much time?
If I'm misusing my own terminology, please be kind enough to instruct me as to the way in which I've done so.
Umpf. Sorry I missed the intent. Been up all night, severe back pain (which makes me cranky), due for a visit to the pain management specialist Friday to do something (hopefully!) about it, and just found out Megan will be having oral surgery next week, the day before my birthday. All of it, I can legitimately claim, not exactly designed to make me a little ray of sunshine or properly observant of posters' intent.
Thanks for the explanation. Use a big enough clue stick, and even I catch on sooner or later.