This time my armor was heavily inspired by Elden Ring, including the cerulean and crimson flasks.
I’ve named this iteration Astor the Tarnished.
This time my armor was heavily inspired by Elden Ring, including the cerulean and crimson flasks.
I’ve named this iteration Astor the Tarnished.
That’s fair, but wouldn’t the more practical conclusion be that we abbreviate long words since that’s the whole goal of abbreviation?
We also abbreviate short ones I suppose, like “to” to 2 and “with” to “w/”. Really, we just abbreviate things.
I guess my beef is not with the abbreviations, but more with the fact that short versions completely replace long ones. I can’t recall the last time I heard someone say words like mayonnaise or influenza.
Or brassiere, or automobile, or cellular telephone, or taximeter cabriolet, or tarpaulin, etc.
This is just how language works.
Ok, that’s a good one. I think I might have fallen down with the good old bias: everything before my time is antique and everything newer than my time is an abomination. Thanks for slapping some sense into the old grumpy guy :)
That’s more of an internet thing, not an American thing.