'Raids', really?

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Originally Posted by Wolfie

I can't tell if you actually got my point. But your post is what I was going for.

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And I can tell you aren't too bright.

If you are worried by what you call duck-like-birds it's because you are too dumb to realize that they all are nothing but food.

Look, I'm willing to use the word raid as long as it is called pantie raid as someone had suggested earlier

Raid

–noun
1.
a sudden assault or attack, as upon something to be seized or suppressed:

AND

–verb (used with object)
5.
to make a raid on.

thesaurus for raid and then for duck

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Originally Posted by Viridiana

Oh, hey, look, you just used it as a noun. . .

Also, the definition right above the one you quoted:

–noun
1.
a sudden assault or attack, as upon something to be seized or suppressed: a police raid on a gambling ring.
2.
Military. a sudden attack on the enemy, as by air or by a small land force.
3.
a vigorous, large-scale effort to lure away a competitor's employees, members, etc.

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Raid can be used as both a noun and verb but your still missing the point that your analogy does not fit, like you said a duck is a duck and raid can also be a siege, or assault and so on. my use of grammar may have been off at first but does not change the point i was attempting to make.

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Originally Posted by Ilean

And I can tell you aren't too bright.

If you are worried by what you call duck-like-birds it's because you are too dumb to realize that they all are nothing but food.

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I have been arguing that point the entire time in this thread. I don't care if they call them a raid or not. It makes no difference. It's just a word. What does make a difference is the anti-WOW brigade that poopoos ideas and stymies development efforts because something isn't a polar opposite of WOW.

Please tell me we're not arguing over something we secretly agree on.

I believe Ilean is simply trying to convince you that a duck is food and nothing else. because he likes to eat duck.

I've had rabbit but not duck.. what kind of rabbit? not sure, maybe easter rabbit.

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Originally Posted by Bled

Raid

–noun
1.
a sudden assault or attack, as upon something to be seized or suppressed:

AND

–verb (used with object)
5.
to make a raid on.

thesaurus for raid and then for duck

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Let's go back to your original quote, before you edited:

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Originally Posted by Bled

so you don't believe in using thesauruses huh? that explains a good deal of this. Raid is an adjective duck is a noun your analogy does not fit.

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. . . so, how the flying hell does my analogy not fit?

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Originally Posted by Viridiana

If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, ****s like a duck, it's a parakeet!

Wait, no, it's a ****ing duck. Call it a duck, ffs. . .

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If it functions like a raid, has loot like a raid, plays like a raid, it's an invasion!

Wait, no, it's a ****ing raid. Call it a raid, ffs. . .

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Originally Posted by Wolfie

I have been arguing that point the entire time in this thread. I don't care if they call them a raid or not. It makes no difference. It's just a word. What does make a difference is the anti-WOW brigade that poopoos ideas and stymies development efforts because something isn't a polar opposite of WOW.

Please tell me we're not arguing over something we secretly agree on.

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Well we were but you had to come and ruin it.

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Originally Posted by Viridiana

Let's go back to your original quote, before you edited:



. . . so, how the flying hell does my analogy not fit?



If it functions like a raid, has loot like a raid, plays like a raid, it's an invasion!

Wait, no, it's a ****ing raid. Call it a raid, ffs. . .

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A duck is a waterbird with a broad blunt bill, short legs, webbed feet, and a waddling gait.

can not also be referred by any other word unless you are specifying species.

A raid is:
Verb: Conduct a raid on: "officers raided thirty homes".
Noun: A rapid surprise attack on an enemy by troops, aircraft, or other armed forces in warfare.

But can also be referred to as foray, assault, incursion and so on.

So with the above said there is no correlation to you analogy.

But this is so far off point from all the flaming over a few people requesting a name change there's a whole forum out there one thread requesting something minoot is not the end of the world.

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Originally Posted by Bled

A duck is a waterbird with a broad blunt bill, short legs, webbed feet, and a waddling gait.

A raid is:
Verb: Conduct a raid on: "officers raided thirty homes".
Noun: A rapid surprise attack on an enemy by troops, aircraft, or other armed forces in warfare.

But can also be referred to as foray, assault, incursion and so on.

But this is so far off point from all the flaming over a few people requesting a name change.

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. . .Are you at all familiar with the saying I'm using? Or is this just a case of obfuscating stupidity?