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[Intyalle]

Actually, "were-" means "man" in Latin. So there!

Ah well. I'm going to use it to refer to all were-whatevers anyway because it's easier if you have one word to put them other.

Unless someone would like to suggest another word?

BTW - Damn you for knowing Greek! I want to know Greek! My name is Greek, therefore Greeks have always interested me. Yay for messed-up logic.

[3kul]

*the Nitpicker hisses and flails his tendrils wildly in rage*

Curses, foiled by a bystander!

To regain a little bit of nitpicking stature, I shall point out that the correct latin term for man is 'vir' - 'were' or 'wer' means man in Old English, not Latin. Care to second this, Chronos?

As for my in-depth knowledge of Greek... I don't actually know the language very well at all, I just know how to use the internet

If you're looking for a word to describe all kinds of were-animals, I believe that therianthropy is the right term to use (from the Greek word 'therion', meaning 'wild beast', as well as 'anthropos', 'man'). Or if you really hate that, I guess zoanthropy is okay too.

EDIT: If we had a showdown for words then HisLordship would probably have to take part too, and he makes me look like an illiterate chimp

[Intyalle]

And the wiki specifically said that "lycanthropy" is used to refer to any transformation of man to beast, even if its technical meaning says it should only apply to werewolves.

And give me a break, I got the "were" thing from reading Harry Potter.

Who ever said you never learnt from fiction books? I learnt how to dust from them, too.

You are no longer the only nit-picker on the forum, 3kul. It comes naturally to me, much to the annoyance (and often offense, on the internet) of others.

[3kul]

[visagepoissons]

Well there you go. I wrote a song about lycanthropes once! It was a parody of some song. i don't remember which now. Therianthropy... Didn't know that one. Neither did firefox's stupid spell-checker.

[Intyalle]

[Danikat]

[visagepoissons]

I should probably actually create a race for Shavo...

[Intyalle]

OMG! You read Anne McCaffery as well?
*jaw drops*

[Swix]

So do I, read Anne McCaffrey I mean . Where do you think I got the idea for Sallah? Although I originally had to adapt her to the X-Men universe before bringing her to this one...

[Embri]

You'll find a fair number of McCaffery fans, I've read almost everything she's written, and I own the majority of her works. *looks fondly at her bookshelf* Just finished re-reading The Rowan this morning.

We tend to borrow liberally and freely from the many worlds familiar to us, and distill the whole down into the chaos-that-somehow-works that we know as Psychotopia and Blackstar Dojo.

[Danikat]

Anne McCaffery's Pern series is probably my all time favourite book series. I've read them all, including all the short stories, far too many times.

I have to admit I'm a bit behind on her other stuff though, I've read the Crystal Singer series, some of the Acorna series and random books or short stories from others but not nearly as much as I'd like to.

But yeah, way back in the days of the old DS forum and insane power-plays I wanted a way to make my chracter a) cooler and b) a lot more powerful and Pernese dragons seemed like the obvious solution. Or rather one dragon (Alzaranth), one fire-lizard (Lopp) and one weapon of mass destruction masequerading as a dragon (Veamoth).

[visagepoissons]

This has taken an un-surprising turn. I like the Darren Shan series *shot*
I also liked the Hannibal Lecter one, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, The Bourne series. Well, the first one and the movies.

[Intyalle]

I, unfortunately, have only gotten my hands on a few of her books, most of them being Pern books.

*grimaces*
I had to read them all out of order.

[visagepoissons]

There, there.
*pats on the back*