Rhainor wrote:
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> "Lord Flame Stryke" <FlameStryke@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> "Rhainor" <rhainor@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>> Does anyone here happen to have a better name for it? I would
>>>>> suggest "human life", because all the none-fictional people here are
>>>>> living the lives of 21st-century not-very-poor humans, whatever they
>>>>> think they are. Or maybe "mundane life".
>>>> I wouldn't go around calling it "human life" either. There are
>>>> humans in Alfandra as well, and they might take offense at it. But
>>>> "mundane life" I like better. Or, we could adopt Piers Anthony's
>>>> term, "Mundania".
>>> No. Just no. "Mundane" has alwasy struck me as insulting and
>>> derogatory to those who are stuck 100% in that state.
>>> Just stick with "real life", because, as unfortunate as it may be,
>>> *that's what it is*, and there is absolutely no reason to make things
>>> any more complicated than they already are.
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>> The whole point of this discussion is that the so-called "real life" is
>> /not/ exactly what its name implies.
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> Way to completely miss my point there.
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> And, for the record, no, I didn't miss *your* point, I just chose not to
> address it in this post.
>
Errm... I don't mean to butt in.. but the whole reason so many people
use 'Real Life' as the term is because they call everything that he do
here, on the internet, as 'CyberSpace' as if it's a se****ate realm that
is not real, a pesudo-reality. Hense why we use the term 'Real Life'. It
has nothing to do with implying 'in real life I'm not a dragon', it's
supposed to imply 'Physically, outside of the internet realm I am...' In
cyberspace you may appear as you wish, ie. having your inner draconic
image show. In 'real life' although still a dragon, your image does not
show. That simple.
If anyone is /that/ sensitive about saying 'real life', then use an
alternate word for physical reality/realm. I'm sure one could be cleaver
enough with having the whole English and Latin language to their
disposal to create a new use of a word, or a compound word.
One such one that amused me is in one video game, they termed the
physical world and cyber world as 'Meat world' and 'Cyber world' and
called your body standing there while in the cyber world your 'meatsack'
:P
-Dafydd Edward Dragon
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