Sprue vs. Spruce: A Lesson in Terminology.

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**ChiliPowderKeg**

Aw, I was hoping for a plastic versus tree deathmatch.

I still wonder how spell check could have lead to that though.

**chaos0xomega**

Catyrpelius wrote:
chaos0xomega wrote:
Catyrpelius wrote:lol, I was at a con this week with a couple of guys who told me a story about a couple of kids selling a giant box of spruces. I laughed then and I shall laugh now.

They wouldn't happened to have been involved with an organization called NJ Gamer, would they? A couple of heavier set gentlemen... occurred at an auction... kids had ridiculous expectations of getting like a dollar per bit or something like that? I assume that the con was the warstore weekend...

Those would infact be the gentlemen. Would you by any chance be one of those gentlemen?

No, but I know them very well, I help them out with NJ Gamer activities when I'm home from school for the summer.

**Nurglitch**

watever, its a, mute point

**chaos0xomega**

You mean its a MOOT point...

**Nurglitch**

At least one occasionally prays that is the case. Depends on whether the point has been mooted or not.

**insaniak**

BloodQuest wrote:Almost as annoying are all the F-word alternatives: fething, frakking, freaking, fricking, frigging, etc.

Say what you mean, mean what you say...

So, in other words, use an actual adjective instead of swearing?

**Johann**

By far the most common mistake I see on game forums is "loose" instead of "lose". If you don't like loosing, tighten up your game, man.

**mgraham**

Kilkrazy wrote:
Laughing Man wrote:
Kilkrazy wrote:You quite often see people typing Emperor.

...That's because it's actually spelled Emperor...

No, it's not.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/115025.page

Yes it is?

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/emperor
http://oxforddictionaries.com/view/entry/m_en_us1243876#m_en_us1243876
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?prodId=prod1060203
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?prodId=prod1095444

I like it when people say or type, "spruce"; always makes me chuckle a little. I think it's cute and it makes me think of my son (he's said it before and I've also heard him say "pumble"). I always refer to 40k as "Warpumbler".

**The Bringer**

I will never be able to spell the emp-r-r word again thanks to you guys, I'm so confused.

The mispelling I see the most out of everything is the word "the."

Often people are typing fast and say the I can't actually type the word fast correctly when I try.

**mgraham**

The Bringer wrote:I will never be able to spell the emp-r-r word again thanks to you guys, I'm so confused.

Do a Google search for "emporer" and then do one for "emperor". Note the results.

**The Bringer**

emporer has 317,000 results
emperor has 54,000 results

Does that mean emporer is correct? My spellcheck says otherwise... aahkk!!!

I don't know what to trust.

**mgraham**

The Bringer wrote:emporer has 317,000 results
emperor has 54,000 results

Does that mean emporer is correct? My spellcheck says otherwise... aahkk!!!

I don't know what to trust.

Google asks, "Did you mean emperor" when I search for "emporer":

I get "About 45,500,000 results" when I search for "emperor":

**insaniak**

Try googling 'dry humour doesn't always translate well into the written word...'

**MagickalMemories**

H.B.M.C. wrote:I've never heard anyone ever say "Spruce".

Guy in our group pronounces "Hatred" "Hat-red" (Hat as in I'm wearing a hat, and red as in the colour). It's weird.

I can personally attest that, over on Bartertown, we occasionally see people trying to trade or sell models "new on spruce."
I desperately want to edit them, but you can't protect people from their own stupidity. : )

Eric

**BloodQuest**

And, of course, it's always nice to see lightening bolts...

**Kilkrazy**

If someone did an injection kit of the Hughes H-4 Hercules, it would contain heaps of Spruce Goose Sprues.

**asmith**

The Bringer wrote:emporer has 317,000 results
emperor has 54,000 results

Does that mean emporer is correct? My spellcheck says otherwise... aahkk!!!

I don't know what to trust.

My google has 45,000,000 hits for "emperor" and 314,000 for "emporer"
maybe you are using Goegle instead?

**Kilkrazy**

There is only One True Spase Emporer!!!

**Saldiven**

I've often rolled my eyes at both DE Ravagers and Tyranid Raveners (sp?) being referred to as "Ravengers."

**Nurglitch**

"Rediculous" makes me twitch. It's either 'ridiculous' or 'recockulous'.

**George Spiggott**

insaniak wrote:Try googling 'dry humour doesn't always translate well into the written word...'

I did, I got this: No results found for "dry humour doesn't always translate well into the written word".

**Chibi Bodge-Battle**

OP

Technically the first picture is a tree
and the second is another tree.

**AvatarForm**

About time... I have some locals in my group who insist it is 'spur'

**Zefig**

Unfortunately, Chibi, the first one isn't coniferous.

You probably wouldn't want to landscape with it.

Then again.....

**CrashUSAR**

Kilkrazy wrote:If someone did an injection kit of the Hughes H-4 Hercules, it would contain heaps of Spruce Goose Sprues.

HA!

Simple spelling errors never bothered me too much, we all make mistakes. It's the constant mispelling that irks me, or substituting numbers for words. You know who you are.

**BAWTRM**

I see some have already mentioned the horrible rogue/rouge, I can't recall all those instances I've read "I went to the local Rouge Trader tournament...", uh-huh yeah, you went over there and got yourself a nice make-over, probably with some mascara and lipstick too.

Lose/loose is only a mild annoyance for me though very common.

Chaos/Choas really irritates me though, learn to spell (part of) the name of your own army!! This one gets my goat every time and I don't even play with any variation of those guys!

And btw, isn't it spelled Empror?

**Chibi Bodge-Battle**

Zefig wrote:Unfortunately, Chibi, the first one isn't coniferous.

You probably wouldn't want to landscape with it.

Then again.....

Having studied Landscape Design am sure it would be perfectly possible
And now you come to mention it

And technically it is still a tree and not a sprue afaik

Kilkrazy wrote:If someone did an injection kit of the Hughes H-4 Hercules, it would contain heaps of Spruce Goose Sprues.

hehe
Pretty sure I saw such a kit recently on ebay, not sure which scale but fairly safe in assuming 1/144
Would possibly actually get to fly as much as the real thing.

**SpaceMarineCollecter**

Taken from Codex: Space Marines

"From the ashes of the age of strife arose a mighty leader, the man who would only be known as The Emperor"
So by games workshop's spelling it's Emperor, and I believe their overpriced Codexes.

**Chibi Bodge-Battle**

There is no spellcheck in the Grimgakk

**snurl**

So if GW released a new set of terrain, and it included some spruces, you could expect to see sprues of spruces in the box?