On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 3:20 AM, Simon Osborne <outspaced@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > (er) 235, 281: mindblast -> Mindblast > [jb: These don't seem to refer to a Kai Discipline but to a generic blast of > mind energy (e.g. "You launch a mindblast at the angry sergeant..."). I > can't find any other similar examples in the books. Instead, how about "mind > blast" in order to prevent confusion?] > [ik: There is a precedence concerning the generic use of "mindshield" (as > opposed to the Kai Discipline of Mindshield). In 08tjoh:230 and in > 12tmod:141, "mindshield" is used as description for a generic shield against > mind energy. We have neither changed this to "mind shield" nor to > "mind-shield". Consequently, I suggest to also leave "mindblast" as-is.] > [jb: This a good point and I was about to agree with you, but it made me > look for other cases of "(a|your) [Mm]indblast" and there are only few > cases, but they are all "Mindblast" except for these two. It makes me > hesitate. Obviously Joe was OK with capitalizing in cases like this, so > maybe we should capitalize them all just to be consistent. If we do, we may > want to reconsider the two cases of uncapitalized "mindshield".] > > ...So we should capitalise Mindblast here, and Mindshield in 08tjoh:230 and > 12tmod:141? I don't like it much, but that seems to be in line with Joe's choices elsewhere. -- Jon ~~~~~~ Manage your subscription at //www.freelists.org/list/projectaon