Talk:White Tiger

Accessed?
"The easiest place to charm a White Tiger is in the northern part of Arborstone, accessed from the Tanglewood Copse or Arborstone outposts." I find the use of accessed as a verb applied to human actions awkward, as some dictionaries only acknowledge the word noun-status. The verb status is well accepted in technical circles to apply to data.

Perhaps this means that I am slow-to-adapt. However, I wonder whether we couldn't find a way to rephrase that avoids the debate:
 * "The easiest place to charm a White Tiger is in the northern part of Arborstone, which can be reached from the Tanglewood Copse or Arborstone outposts."
 * "The easiest place to charm a White Tiger is in the northern part of Arborstone; you can get there from either the Tanglewood Copse or Arborstone outposts."

If no one else has a strong opinion about it, I'll consider the current text as accepted (and reconsider my general opposition to this type of usage). &mdash; Tennessee Ernie Ford ( TEF ) 17:31, January 1, 2010 (UTC)
 * "Which can be reached", is a good alternative, go ahead and change  Random  Time   17:36, January 1, 2010 (UTC)


 * M-W does list the verb form, did you not see this? And we already use "accessed" in exactly this sense for multiple hard-to-access areas, including the area in question.  &mdash;Dr Ishmael Diablo_the_chicken.gif 17:49, January 1, 2010 (UTC)
 * Yeah, nothing obscure about the verb form, even for human actions. I've heard it used this way many times.  Now, look at the definition for "access" as a strong emotional outburst and tell me if you knew about that one.  I didn't.  o_O  Nwash  [[Image:User-Nwash-Eyes.png]] 18:40, January 1, 2010 (UTC)