This week, with my GP, I played:

Argh, this wasn't supposed to be in "News and Rumors", so Admins, please move it to "Feeling Chatty", if possible. Thanks in advance. I'll explain later, to express my innocence.

Near and Far

(This probably isn't the way you'd actually lay-it-out, but I was too lazy to find a better picture). We were playing a Campaign (over a couple of years) and we finally finished. I really liked this game. Maybe I'm 'campaign' oriented. I've been toyin' with the idea of owning Sleeping Gods, but I need to research it more.

Image Source: BGG (ah..., sorry for the jumbo picture)

Bunny Kingdom

Image Source: BGG

Cover Your Kingdom

Image Source: BGG

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Zerbique

Jul 16, 2021

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I've always felt drawn to Bunny Kingdom but... one cannot own all games! It sat in my wishlist for long at the very least.

Regarding what the "Hentaur" says... I'm very curious why people started to interpret 'taur' as meaning basically something you can combine with animal names to refer to mythological man-animal hybrids. Like the "cheetaur" in Kitara.

I'm not saying people shouldn't (it's fun, and we all understand what it means), I'm just curious about it.

I also didn't know that you were a Near & Far fan! Glad to see you enjoy it so much!

Zerbique

Jul 17, 2021

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Replying to

@Cadet Stimpy It sure falls within the fall of morphology (the study of the formation of words, if I am not mistaken).

Actually, fun fact. In the "hamburger" article in Wikipedia, the emergence of "burger" is described as an instance of back-formation. But "burger" from "hamburger" is also quoted as a featured example in the rebracketing article. And it's also a key example of the folk etymology article.

"Folk etymology" is just a despising, classist word to say "people do weird things with language". Back-formation and rebracketing are examples of such "folk etymology".

Rebracketing occurs for hamburger (hamburg + er > ham + burger): how you split the word into parts has changed. Because of that "burger" got re-interpreted as a unit that can combine, leading to the back-formation of the other words of the family.

So, terminology is muddy, uninsighftul, and a bit haughty. But Wikipedia is nice and helpful as usual.