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Re: question on naming - pirate guns vs. modern guns
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Sun, 16 Jul 2000 18:56:05 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Franklin W. Cain writes:
> In lugnet.cad.dev, Jonathan Wilson writes:
> > How about just
> > minifig gun musket
> > minifig gun pistol
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> 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...
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 revolver, it would be confusing to me (personally)
because I think of "modern" as something within the last half- or quarter-
century rather than something since the beginning of the Industrial Age.
I agree with Jonathan's suggestions but I also agree that "Pistol" is still
a bit ambiguous.
What about these?--
Minifig Gun Musket
Minifig Gun Flintlock
Minifig Gun Rifle
Minifig Gun Revolver
Is it correct that the brown Pirates pistol/gun is a flintlock?
--Todd
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 | | Re: question on naming - pirate guns vs. modern guns
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| (...) [sigh]... You've got a point. "modern" w/ respect to History != "modern" in mundane usage (...) Sorry, but once again, this opens up confusion. Which one of these is the pirate pistol? Which one is the pirate long-gun? (You see, not all (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jul-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: question on naming - pirate guns vs. modern guns
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| (...) *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.) (...) By using "modern" and "archaic", there would be *no* ambiguity: an *archaic* (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jul-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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