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[–] [email protected] 83 points 3 weeks ago (21 children)

So what you're saying is we have orcs and elves, And... We are the demigods?

Oh Lords. When we pour the liquid metal into an ant colony to get its shape?

Man now I kind of want to run a campaign treating the gods as if they thought of us as literal ants and termites.

And... That gods that work with clerics and stuff are etymologists... And such...

[–] [email protected] 59 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

Do you mean entomologists rather than etymologists?

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The typo kind of makes sense though. The Gods are etymologists who study the language of the bugs. It's why they understand prayer. Entomological etymologists.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Entomolinguist

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

i suppose insects are entomonolingual

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Entomologist: From French entomologie, from Ancient Greek éntomon (insect) + -logie (from Ancient Greek -logía (from "lógos" - explanation)).

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

Exactly as asked. The etymologist to explain the etymology of entomologist.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Of course there's an xkcd for everything!

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