Plural wargames?

Started by Leon, 12 September 2014, 09:39:25 PM

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Techno

13 September 2014, 07:42:52 PM #15
Wargames Miniatures.....Shirley....Surely ?
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13 September 2014, 08:09:32 PM #16
I play toy soldiers!
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Last Hussar

13 September 2014, 08:34:48 PM #17
I wargame.

I have miniatures.

They are Wargame figures.
I have neither the time nor the crayons to explain why you are wrong.

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mollinary

13 September 2014, 08:40:27 PM #18
Surely the answer is "Wargames' Miniaures". FK will sit in judgment on this.

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FierceKitty

14 September 2014, 12:27:01 AM #19
Not sure about the possessive. Surely the word wargames is a noun epithet, and as such requires no inflexion to qualify miniaures, whatever they are. ;)
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Ithoriel

14 September 2014, 12:27:20 AM #20
But Mollinary, the Miniatures don't belong to Wargames ... they belong to me :)
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Hertsblue

14 September 2014, 09:33:35 AM #21
And just to start a further controversy, they are "figures" and always have been.
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JimLeCat

14 September 2014, 11:25:01 AM #22
How about dodging the question entirely and describing them as wargaming miniatures - miniatures for wargaming?  ;)

Luddite

14 September 2014, 11:49:28 AM #23
....aaaand....that's the problem with trying to apply Latin grammar to Anglo Saxon language.   ;D

Pendraken makes lots of miniatures, for use in many wargames.  Therefore, 'wargames miniatures'.  Although, context can apply to modify that.

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Duke Speedy of Leighton

14 September 2014, 11:50:04 AM #24
Teeny tiny toy men?
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Roy

14 September 2014, 02:49:58 PM #25
Tabletop gaming. It sounds less brutal.
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14 September 2014, 03:09:33 PM #26
Quote from: gingerbhoy on 14 September 2014, 02:49:58 PM
Tabletop gaming. It sounds less brutal.

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14 September 2014, 05:37:28 PM #27
Blood, sh*t and guts all over the place resulting in orphans and weeping widows games. Happier with that Ian?
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Techno

14 September 2014, 05:43:09 PM #28
Quote from: mad lemmey on 14 September 2014, 11:50:04 AM
Teeny tiny toy men?

Stop it, Will.....I an NOT telling people I make teeny tiny toy men. ;D
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Hertsblue

15 September 2014, 07:57:54 AM #29
Quote from: JimLeCat on 14 September 2014, 11:25:01 AM
How about dodging the question entirely and describing them as wargaming miniatures - miniatures for wargaming?  ;)

Can also be read as "miniatures that wargame".  ~X(
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