Thinking about it, the Pasifika term "mana" has been ganked really badly by Western fantasy to mean "magical electric charge" and it... doesn't really mean that Again, because ancient peoples didn't draw this modern divide between "magic" and "non-magic" kinds of "power"https://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1302402100341559296 …
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think one of my favorite ones in recent memory is Final Fantasy 14's use of "glamour" for illusions. Which does have some basis in how the term was used before its modern meaning but its also the kind of obtuse archaic English used to make the game feel more "fantasy" than usual.
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I will never not love the fact that "glamour" was a Scotts corruption of "grammar." Because words are magical.
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I once discovered that the Mind's Eye Theatre names of discipline levels were just what came up if you wrote, say, "celerity" in Word and then checked its thesaurus.
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God bless them for making nerds everywhere play rock-paper-scissors while yelling "I OBFUSCATE, I OBFUSCATE!"
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