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[The Elfoid_TFS]

A half just means a division into two. You are thinking of EQUAL halves, you can get inequal ones. And anyone who has talked to BME much knows 'hillus' is an Acheron word, whether you're a geek or not. Acheron used to remind me regularly about how cool it was that he invented a word.

Its not as commonplace as 'lol', but I'd say most players who were actively using MWC04's forums for a significant amount of the tournament (and that's a lot of the community) woulda picked up on it.

[vinylrake]

A half just means a division into two. You are thinking of EQUAL halves, you can get inequal ones.

Common meaning of the phrase "Could you divide this cake into two halves" would be interpreted as dividing into two (at least) fairly equal sized halves. If my boss were to say "split up that pile of work into 2 halves and give us each one half to work on" I think he would be suprised if I divided the pile into a 70%/30% split.


Also if you look at the maning of 'half' you will find something like this (from dictionary.com)

half
n. pl. halves (hvz, hävz)

1a. One of two equal parts that together constitute a whole.
1b. One part approximately equal to the remaining part.
2. Informal. A 50-cent piece.
3. Sports.
3a. One of the two playing periods into which certain games are divided.
3b. A halfback.
4. Chiefly British. A school term; a semester.
5. Half an hour: a half past one.

And anyone who has talked to BME much knows 'hillus' is an Acheron word, whether you're a geek or not. Acheron used to remind me regularly about how cool it was that he invented a word.

That's called 'name-dropping', and I have two thoughts.

1) You can't use a person who claims to have created something as an objective reference to prove a point as the claimer is not impartial.

2) It is much cooler to be known for something because it's cool than to tell everyone how cool something you did was.

Its not as commonplace as 'lol', but I'd say most players who were actively using MWC04's forums for a significant amount of the tournament (and that's a lot of the community) woulda picked up on it.

That's just a ridiculous statement on so many levels.

1) It's "not as commomplace as 'lol' which is undoubtably the most universally known online acronym in the english speaking world known by everyone from 12 year old myspacers to geezers like me who remember it before it was associated with AOL and AIM? REally? Are you sure?\

2) You have changed your original statement about pver 3/4 of the Myth community being familiar with the word to now saying that a "significant amount" of mythers are familiar with the term. But you aren't saying a significant amount of the ENTIRE Myth community, you are now limiting your target pool from the entire myth community to the people who were active in the community in a single year - 2004. As if that weren't enough of a limitation you then microfocus on not just the myth players in 2004 but myth players who participated in the MWC04 forums. Ok, that's still a good chunk of active mythers no doubt, but wait there's more. You then say it's not just the active mythers who used the MWC04 forums in 2004 or who might have read the forums, but only those active mythers in 2004 "who were actively using MWC04's forums for a SIGNIFICANT amount of the tournament". And will pver 3/5 of those users know the term? No, apparently not because you now just claim that "most" (meaning over half - or when you say 'most' do you mean more than half of some lopsided half?) mythers who were active on the MWC04 forums for a "significant" portionm of the tourney will know this obviously apparent to all obscure term. That's quite a back-pedal.



note: This is not meant as a personal attack, it was more an exercise in logic and deconstruction.

ps. personally I don't care who coined the word or whether it's obscure or not, I was just trying to be silly by changing your word into a word that sounded more like 'hula' which for me tied together your word with ukeleles.

[Frumius]

I was just trying to be silly by changing your word into a word that sounded more like 'hula' which for me tied together your word with ukeleles.

it was more an exercise in logic and deconstruction.

Exercise? That was a total body workout!
What was the middle part?

[Baak]

Do I need to get you two your own room and some foam bats?

[vinylrake]

:offtopic:

Do I need to get you two your own room and some foam bats? :)

Mr "Let's talk about the playmyth server being down and our firewall issues on the current BattlePlan updates forum" wants to call something "off-topic"?

Ok, given your obvious expertise in this area I will take your advice into consideration.

[vinylrake]

Exercise? That was a total body workout!

Nah, didn't even work up a sweat. The most difficult part was finding the right keys to press in the dark.

What was the middle part?

I don't think I really kept to any particular structure so I am unsure what 'middle part' you are referring to.

[The Elfoid_TFS]

I'm not smart enough to reply as cleverly or as correctly as VR so I'm gonna stick my toungue out at him and report him to Tyrone.

[vinylrake]

I'm not smart enough to reply as cleverly or as correctly as VR so I'm gonna stick my toungue out at him and report him to Tyrone.

Hey wait. Is "tyrone" some obscure myth slang I've never heard of?

;)

ps. My response was far from "correct" I would say it was actually rather rude and/or boorish. At best it was unnecessary.

[The Elfoid_TFS]

Tyrone is god cops' immaginary 'black guy from New York' who he pays to beat people up witha lead pipe, according to him.

[Frumius]

Tyrone is god cops' immaginary 'black guy from New York' who he pays to beat people up witha lead pipe

Hopefully he is imaginary.