Posted by Nepenthe on October 24, 1999 at 21:24:01:
In Reply to: In Reply posted by Gandalf on October 24, 1999 at 20:59:28:
Hopefully, I won't come off sounding too much like an ass here. > But the immortals cannot dare argue with someone if they choose a name that is not original. We can't dare? Point of fact, we do so dare. Regularly. Should is up for debate (not that I can imagine why you'd care strongly enough TO debate it). Can is not. > As I said before it is not realistic to have the gods change their names but it does make it difficult to enforce the name thing. Difficult how? Is it somehow harder for Twist to tell someone 'Sorry, that name doesn't pass our muster.' and deny them access because Twist is in the dictionary? No, not really. Do you mean it's difficult because people can try to argue it? Well, I have news for you. Give me 20 people with unacceptable names, and no more than one will go without a fight, given a chance. Everyone tries to argue why they think their name is okay. The most common defense is to look at the who list and start pointing out names they think are worse. So they maybe have one more name to try to defend theirs with. . .but that defense is never successful, anyway. So in short, I can accept that you might be happier if the names would change, but it doesn't make things any harder on us to have them that way.