Tomestones, not Tombstones

That bird looks so lonely.

a "Tomestone" is a stone used to help flatten unrolled Tomes. It is essentially a paperweight. You know when you see a period film and someone brings in a rolled up map and they roll it out on the table? They almost always put a stone on the top and the bottom to hold the paper open. Bam Tomestones.

Guess what. You are raiding for Paperweights. Good job.

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Originally Posted by Synra

I thought it was tombstones. You mean it's not?

Crap, and I thought I had finally saved up enough tombstones to buy my first darklight item. Now I need to start collecting tomestones? What am I supposed to do with all of these tombstones?

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Don't feel bad. I don't know if it's a translation thing, but tomestones is pretty dumb and isn't part of the English vocabulary.

Not being near the end-game stuff yet, I was afraid that I would be collecting both tomestones and tombstones. Took a while for me to figure out they were the same thing.

By the way, while tomestones is not a real word, tome is:


tome - noun
1.
a book, especially a very heavy, large, or learned book.
2.
a volume forming a part of a larger work.

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Originally Posted by Seraphi

Don't feel bad. I don't know if it's a translation thing, but tomestones is pretty dumb and isn't part of the English vocabulary.

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I am pretty sure the intent is pretty much exactly what it sounds like: a tome stone, where a tome is a volume in a larger work.That is why they are philosophy/mythology. So a stone, as in a stone writing tablet.. So yeah. Not tombs.

But I figured most people typing tombstone were just making a typo, and that isn't worth getting worked up over given how many typos, grammatical errors, and especially punctuation errors, that I make. ;)