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Re: question on naming - pirate guns vs. modern guns
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Tue, 11 Jul 2000 00:22:11 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Jonathan Wilson writes:
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> How about just
> minifig gun musket
> minifig gun pistol <--- Because *this* one *could* mean
*either* the "Pirate Musket Pistol"
*or* the "Wild West Pistol Revolver"...
You *don't* know for *certain*
just by looking at that name...
(Continued below.)
> minifig gun revolver
> minifig gun rifle
By using "modern" and "archaic",
there would be *no* ambiguity:
an *archaic* pistol means the Pirate Pistol,
and nothing else.
A *modern* pistol (or revolver)
means the Wild West Revolver,
and nothing else [1].
I hope you can see where I'm going with this.
I want to be *just* precise enough
to avoid *any* reasonable confusion.
Thanks,
Franklin
[1] -- At least until LegoCo is subverted fully
and they finally cast a
"Minifig Gun Modern 44 Magnum Desert Eagle"...
Yeah, I know, "No [censored] way, dude!"
. . .
But it *would* be funny if they did... ;-)
FWC
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: question on naming - pirate guns vs. modern guns
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| (...) Just as a casual LDraw user, I appreciate the effort to disambiguate the names by including "Archaic" vs. "Modern," but then again it wouldn't be obvious to me what "Archaic" meant and what "Modern" meant. If "Modern" applied to the Wild West (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jul-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
| | | Re: question on naming - pirate guns vs. modern guns
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| My opinion would be: minifig pirate rifle minifig pirate pistol minifig ww rifle minifig ww pistol This keeps everything very simple. If Ldraw users don't know what they are...they probably don't need them in their drawing. as for this: (...) Look (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jul-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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