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    Bravo Whiskey
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    Ravana
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    Quote Originally Posted by JETAlone01 View Post
    The meanings of port, starboard, fore, and aft are common knowledge. Your lack of basic vocabulary does not a bad translation make.
    In what reality are nautical terms 'basic vocabulary'? Holy moly, pass what you're smoking.

    Let's not even go into the fact that this game isn't translated into many languages, many players use the English version without having a huge grasp on the language.
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    Jake Lyons
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    Warrior Lv 70
    Quote Originally Posted by Llus View Post
    They're not common knowledge. They're common knowledge if you've been around boats. Granted, port star fore & aft are mentioned elsewhere in the game, but these are not "common knowledge" terms. They're specialized nautical & aeronautical terms that don't appear in the top 5000 english word frequency list (basic vocabulary is around the 2k top frequency). This is like saying intractable, idempotent and omnifarious are "common knowledge".
    Just because a word isn't in the Top 5000 doesn't mean it's specialized vocabulary that never comes up in normal life. Other commonly-understood words missing from the 5K include: gigantic, windmill, and pancake. You're gonna need something a little more definitive.

    Quote Originally Posted by Pence View Post
    In what reality are nautical terms 'basic vocabulary'? Holy moly, pass what you're smoking.
    "I don't have an actual rebuttal to your argument, so I'm going to just imply that you're on drugs."
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