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The Name "Lumberjacking" 12/21/2014 08:44 PM CST

Zamara and I were chatting about this. "Lumberjack" is a term for someone who works in the logging trade. (It is not a verb.) Wouldn't it make more sense to call this logging?

lumberjack (n.): 1831, Canadian English, from lumber (n.) + Jack.

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Re: The Name "Lumberjacking" 12/22/2014 10:18 AM CST

Such is the problem with making a game hehe...

http://www.uoguide.com/Lumberjacking

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9AwPwFIFWM

So it looks like other big online games have lumberjacking. It sounds better and is easier to identify than logging in my opinion. Though I did notice the discrepancy and decided to reference logging in some of the messaging. It'd probably be a massive delay for me to go change the name at this point. I just don't have the time or energy to be too anal anymore.

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Re: The Name "Lumberjacking" 12/22/2014 10:51 AM CST

Logging does make more sense but I understand. :|

(Also we're citing UO and WOW for grammar? Is that wise? That's a dangerous road.)

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Re: The Name "Lumberjacking" 12/22/2014 01:59 PM CST

>>(Also we're citing UO and WOW for grammar? Is that wise? That's a dangerous road.)

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Re: The Name "Lumberjacking" 12/22/2014 02:30 PM CST

I just had a bad acid flashback to reading WOW scroll. :P

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