 Editor in Chief Bill   | 15 Sep 2012 12:41 p.m. PST |
The army's Undead nature will prevent any units without the Vampiric special rule from marching, but careful positioning of the General can help to circumnavigate this issue. I think they meant some other word that begins with "circum…"  WD384, p.33 |
| Sue Kes | 15 Sep 2012 12:57 p.m. PST |
OK, let's send them a list of words beginning with "circum…" and see which one they choose. |
| Chef Lackey Rich | 15 Sep 2012 1:09 p.m. PST |
That wouldn't be very circumspect. |
| Steve W | 15 Sep 2012 1:17 p.m. PST |
Depends on the circum..stances |
| Fonthill Hoser | 15 Sep 2012 1:31 p.m. PST |
Their editorial board should hold a press circonference to explain their revisions to the English language. I'm sure they'll get around to it. Hoser |
| JimSelzer | 15 Sep 2012 2:04 p.m. PST |
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| Editor in Chief Bill | 15 Sep 2012 2:58 p.m. PST |
There was an advertisement years ago for a wrestling game, where the tag line was supposed to be: "Geeks need not apply!" Unfortunately, it was printed as "Greeks need not apply!" In the next issue, they printed a correction… and spelled it wrong again! |
 miniMo  | 15 Sep 2012 3:19 p.m. PST |
If the General is carefully positioned on an island, you can circumnavigate him. |
| WarrenB | 15 Sep 2012 4:03 p.m. PST |
This is a typo… how? Is this just an instance of a Blackadder II 'sounds a bit rude!' game? |
| Chef Lackey Rich | 15 Sep 2012 5:10 p.m. PST |
This is a typo… how? It's just clumsy English, the more common usage would have been circumvent in this case. While liguistic creep has made circumnavigate and circumvent semi-synonymous, they really didn't mean the same thing originally. A lot of the confusion stems from the slang term "get around" which is commonly applied to both avoiding a problem (which is one original usage of circumvent) and travelling around an area (which is the original meaning of circumnavigate). |
| David Manley | 15 Sep 2012 9:32 p.m. PST |
If you circumnavigate the issue surely you end up where you started and haven't solved a thing, whereas circumventing is what you really want to achieve :) For those wishing to take this thread further may I suggest: link :D |
 20thmaine | 17 Sep 2012 5:23 a.m. PST |
Those words he says are true…. |
| arthur1815 | 18 Sep 2012 5:00 a.m. PST |
Isn't it an example of a simple malapropism, though not as amusing as the oft-quoted schoolboy howler that Drake 'circumsised the world with an eighty foot cutter'. |
