Talk:Battery

About the note, it always seemed pretty clear to me that in Guild Wars, battery should be taken to mean [ ["a device that stores energy"]] and not artillery. I don't mind the note being there at all, just a bit surprised that it could cause confusion (or bug someone). --theeth 23:35, 3 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Well, it's the curse of the pedant to always be annoyed by common usage that doesn't conform to real or imagined rules of language. I don't know if anyone else has this problem, but the use of language by Guild Wars players irritates me continually and thoroughly. Recently it seems that everyone magically comprehends what "echo SS/SV necro LFG 55 monk" means, but it took me a few minutes to piece together that SS = Spiteful Spirit, SV = Sympathetic Visage, and 55 monk = Invincible Monk. Maybe I'm just slow. 23:50, 3 December 2005 (UTC)


 * It's the curse of the prescriptive linguist. --Fyren 02:03, 4 December 2005 (UTC)


 * I don't agree with the current note, nor the fact that my note was butchered. Deleting the note would have pleased me ten times more. Evryone and their dog knows what everyday batteries are. Yet, a battery unit in a military context is an artillery unit. Anything other meaning you want to give to battery there is jargon. I am now going to snip the condescendingly downtalking note and restore it to the state before I got involved. 02:36, 4 December 2005 (UTC) Also, I find Karlos' edit comment highly irritating, as I had specifically linked to the definition of battery, where he could have simply ready why "battery = to beat". I am trying hard not to let this childish and pointless re-editing spoil my mood, but I think it already has. This might be the right time to leave the wiki like I've been meaning to. I don't think people here in general assume good faith. Adios.  02:41, 4 December 2005 (UTC)