Tomestones, not Tombstones

I'm surprised at how wide-spread the confusion is on what the word for these tokens actually is.

...imagine someone lugging around 1300+ Tombstones and handing them to a vendor to buy a piece of armor.

http://www.geni.com/blog/wp-content/...cemeteries.jpg

People saying tombstones is so prevalent it had me thinking my game was bugged by calling them tomestones. Glad I was wrong about that.

"Tomestones" is not a real word, so it's hardly surprising that people would confuse this. In any case, I have no issues lugging around thousands of ores, logs, and even a few dead bodies. Not to mention 25 full suits of armor and weapons. A few extras tons of stone would hardly bother me.

I just call them Tomes.

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Originally Posted by Neoflux

"Tomestones" is not a real word, so it's hardly surprising that people would confuse this. In any case, I have no issues lugging around thousands of ores, logs, and even a few dead bodies. Not to mention 25 full suits of armor and weapons. A few extras tons of stone would hardly bother me.

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+1 that made me laugh :D

I'm not gonna lie, I read it as tombstones all the time. :P

Thanks for creating a thread for this! .......... not

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?

I know its tomestones but I call them tombstones anyway. Tomestones just sounds stupid. Alternatively I just call them mythology tomes.

I say tombstone just because people keep correcting me about it. Stop trying to prove people wrong and they'll adjust.

Also, don't "tell" them they're wrong or they're making a mistake. Use some tact.

Me: Wooo 50 Tombstones (i say it just to piss off my one FC mate)
Him: Oni, it's TOMESTONE
Me: I'll be calling it tombstone forever now just to hear your voice get pissed off.
him: .@#%^)#&^@#)

Better:

Me: woo 50 tombstones
him: Yea, i love it when we get these tomestones
me thinking "did I make a spelling mistake, yup, should fix that"


tact!

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. ;)