For me I say that a truck with a cab longer than its bed is not a truck, but an SUV with an overgrown bumper.

  • surrendertogravity@wayfarershaven.eu
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    1 year ago

    There are no dragons in Skyrim and many other games because wyverns are NOT dragons. and don’t use the “well the overarching category is dragon so it still counts” argument on me, because I will dismiss it out of hand!

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      1 year ago

      Wyverns aren’t dragons? I thought the words were synonyms / interchangable … (Note: I have never played Skyrim)

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        1 year ago

        This picture illustrates the difference between the different dragon and dragon-adjacent creatures! My partner is also pretty adamant about this subject, so I’ve wound up developing the same pedantry.

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        They are synonymous. Throughout most of history, the word “dragon” hasn’t been used to refer to a specific form of big reptile. Medieval sources aren’t specific, and artwork is all over the place on what they look like: how many legs, how many wings (if any), etc. It’s only through the relatively recent phenomenon of trying to classify and systematize things that people have adopted this rigid view of the word. My guess is that a big part of it is games like Dungeons & Dragons becoming more popular.