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Originally Posted by DJKyo
You get Indestructible for taking 500k points of damage.
You get Nigh Indestructible for taking 25 million points of damage. "Nigh" means "nearly", so should those be, I dunno, reversed? Just something I noticed earlier and thought should be pointed out. |
I guess most of us notice that on the journey and I for one, agree it is misnamed and should be swapped.
It makes no sense as it is but... I also figure this is what the Dev's will find time to do if the "Well" is ever drained and somebody sieves through the mud that remains! Not holding my breath here.
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Maybe the thought was that new heroes feel like they are indestructible, but more experienced ones realize they are not?
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Originally Posted by mousedroid
Maybe the thought was that new heroes feel like they are indestructible, but more experienced ones realize they are not?
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I'm going to go with that for now, since it's the only logical explanation other than "the devs don't know what 'nigh' means".
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I thought it was an homage to the comicbook hero the Tick. He says that he isn't merely invulnerable, he's *nigh* invulnerable.
It's because the first four damage badges were released before the next 3, when the devs decided they wanted more 
epic badges. Whoever named the next three didn't look at the first four, apparently.
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Originally Posted by DJKyo
You get Indestructible for taking 500k points of damage.
You get Nigh Indestructible for taking 25 million points of damage. "Nigh" means "nearly", so should those be, I dunno, reversed? Just something I noticed earlier and thought should be pointed out. |
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This was my take on it. The Tick seems to think "nigh" is a superlative, whereas it actually means "near" (as in "the end is nigh!") and diminishes its noun.|
Originally Posted by Sir Neil
I thought it was an homage to the comicbook hero the Tick. He says that he isn't merely invulnerable, he's *nigh* invulnerable.
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This is a common type of linguistic misconception. For example, many people seem to think that "penultimate" is "more" ultimate, but it actually means almost ultimate. I.e., the penultimate syllable in a word is the second to the last, not the last. This is also illustrated by peninsula, from the Latin, "paene insula," which means "almost an island."
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Originally Posted by Rodion
This was my take on it. The Tick seems to think "nigh" is a superlative, whereas it actually means "near" (as in "the end is nigh!") and diminishes its noun.
This is a common type of linguistic misconception. For example, many people seem to think that "penultimate" is "more" ultimate, but it actually means almost ultimate. I.e., the penultimate syllable in a word is the second to the last, not the last. This is also illustrated by peninsula, from the Latin, "paene insula," which means "almost an island." |
"Kidding about that last part, but I did not know about the "almost an island" origin of the word.
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Actually no - your explanation of your answer is correct but the answer itself is not.|
Originally Posted by Rodion
This is a common type of linguistic misconception. For example, many people seem to think that "penultimate" is "more" ultimate, but it actually means almost ultimate. I.e., the penultimate syllable in a word is the second to the last, not the last. This is also illustrated by peninsula, from the Latin, "paene insula," which means "almost an island."
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The ultimate item is the final item
The penultimate item is the item immediately previous to that - it is an exact definition
Almost ultimate could mean the penultimate item, equally it could mean the third from last or the 50th from last in a large collection - i.e. it is inexact.
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I gave the literal translation of the paene- prefix and then a specific example of how it is used in English with the correct definition. This is not "wrong" per se, it is literal, which can be misleading if used by itself without other context or examples.|
Originally Posted by Gaia
Actually no - your explanation of your answer is correct but the answer itself is not.
The ultimate item is the final item The penultimate item is the item immediately previous to that - it is an exact definition Almost ultimate could mean the penultimate item, equally it could mean the third from last or the 50th from last in a large collection - i.e. it is inexact. |
Literal translations are not "wrong" when they are used to illustrate the formation of words. Paene- does not always mean "next to last," and translating it only as such would be more "wrong" and misleading than using the literal translation.
You get Indestructible for taking 500k points of damage.
You get Nigh Indestructible for taking 25 million points of damage.
"Nigh" means "nearly", so should those be, I dunno, reversed?
Just something I noticed earlier and thought should be pointed out.