How do you spell modding?

[DavidG]

Under the heading of useless polls what is the accepted way to spell modding? I ask because I often search "Modding" and then again under "moding" So what is it? One 'd' ot two?

[PvK]

Two D's, because one D would be pronounced like "mode-ing".

PvK

[Ragnarok]

Ok, so who is the english prof? lol!

[Kamog]

So far nobody thinks it's spelled "moding". Spelled, speled, spelt? Nah, must be "spelled". Notice how if you keep staring at a word, it begins to look strange and you become unsure of how it's spelled? Or maybe it's just me.

I agree with PvK, it is pronounced "modd - ing", not "mode -ing", since modding is an abbreviated form of "modifying". Even though "modifying" has only one d, we need the two d's to preserve the pronunciation.

[Fyron]

I always try to vote for the nonsense option in polls if there is one. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon6.gif

[geoschmo]

I voted for one D because, well it looks right to me. And one D is more efficent than two D's. Since neither is a real word anyway the idea is we are making up a word so we can be lazy and shorten the correct term, modifying. Modding is only two letters shorter then modifying. Since we are making it up anyway we might as well save the third letter. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[ December 23, 2002, 01:17: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

[Skulky]

I looked in my elvish dictionary and it wasn't there so it must not be a word http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[ December 23, 2002, 01:22: Message edited by: Skulky ]

[PvK]

Well, I think it's better to make a new word not have an irregular pronunciation, where possible.

Also, one can check how people are using the word currently. A simple unscientific method is to use an Internet search engine. Google finds about 6850 instances of "moding", including "MODing" and a different gaming term, which has to do with role-playing (see THIS LINK (http://www.geocities.com/towersofalharaman/moding.html) ).

Google finds about 235,000 cases of "modding", however.

PvK

[ December 23, 2002, 03:00: Message edited by: PvK ]

[Skulky]

contrary to my previous beliefs, the evidence is decisive. Modding is a word.

[Suicide Junkie]

Ah, now I am curious as to how the RP "Moding" is pronounced!

[PvK]

RP "moding" is apparently pronounced the way it would appear to be: mode-ing. At least, a couple of the articles I found dealing with the term also use the present form "to mode". I am still wondering what the etymology of the term is, though. I think it is probably refers to a mode of roleplaying speech. There are then sub-types of moding, and the articles I found all were relating to improper roleplaying, where a roleplayer would speak in a mode that game them control that their character would not have, by saying what other characters do, or by acting based on knowledge their character would not have, or by claiming to do impossible or near-impossible things.

PvK

[mlmbd]

Hey, I got it right. Do I win a prize, or something? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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[geoschmo]

I dont' care. I still think two d's looks wierd. I can't think off the top of my head of any other word with two consecutive d's. But if it's important to have it spelled with two d's I'll just go back to using modifying. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Geoschmo

[Suicide Junkie]

Flower Bud
The flower is budding.

Replace the "Bu" with an "Mo", and you have
"Flower Mod"
I'm modding a flower racial tech.

[PvK]

Well, modifying is the actual word, so that's the most grammatical, anyway.

sodding
nodding
toddling
wedding
bedding
adding
madding
saddling
meddling
...

PvK

[Atrocities]

MUT NRP OB YAT YFM

Massive Undertaking That Never Realy Pays Off Because Your Alwasy Tweaking Your Fricking Mod.

[Fyron]

"madding" is not a word. Maddening could be, but madding isn't (assuming that comes from modifying the word mad, at any rate).

[Desdinova]

riDDle me this, riDDle me that. who's afraid of the big black bat. - The Riddler (Batman)

[ December 23, 2002, 19:06: Message edited by: desdinova ]

[mlmbd]

desdinova,
riDDle me this, riDDle me that. who's afraid of the big black bat. <font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">You are just such a kidder!

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[Desdinova]

watched to many cartoons and read to many comics as a child. in fact comics are probably what helped me learn how to read. all the pretty pictures. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[mlmbd]

desdinova, watched to many cartoons and read to many comics as a child. in fact comics are probably what helped me learn how to read. all the pretty pictures. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif <font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I Love pretty pictures, too.

So reading about all this, I could not be gladder!
Oh I just couldn't be any badder!
Quess I just don't know diddle!
Ah look, that poor kitty, did piddle! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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[ December 23, 2002, 19:25: Message edited by: mlmbd ]

[geoschmo]

Well, I didn't say there weren't any, just that I couldn't think of any. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[ December 23, 2002, 19:48: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

[mlmbd]

geo, I'm just bad! Sorry! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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[capnq]

"madding" is not a word. <font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Oh, dear. Don't tell Thomas Gray and Thomas Hardy {link} (http://www.bibliomania.com/0/0/26/55/frameset.html) that; they'll be crushed. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[Gryphin]

According to Merriam - Webster
Word - A "speech sound" that comnicates a meaning

Based on that defanition, "Modding" is a word. Most of us have an understanding of what is meant when we see the word. Since the English laguage is a "living language" we can add words to it as long as they comunicate.
The other meaning of "modding" to me is modifying a computer but I can remember seeing it used 30 years ago when I sold pLastic models. There was always talk of "modding" a tank from one Version to another.

[DavidG]

Originally posted by Gryphin:
Since the English laguage is a "living language" we can add words to it as long as they comunicate.<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">If anyone doubts this I recently read that Shakespere (the greatest writer of all time??) coined (in other words made up) over 1600 words!!! No wonder that guy was so hard to understand!!

[Kamog]

Originally posted by desdinova:
watched to many cartoons and read to many comics as a child. in fact comics are probably what helped me learn how to read. all the pretty pictures. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif <font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I learned to read by watching Sesame Street and reading Dr. Suess books. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Originally posted by Gryphin:
The other meaning of "modding" to me is modifying a computer but I can remember seeing it used 30 years ago when I sold pLastic models. There was always talk of "modding" a tank from one Version to another.<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Yes, in electronics, we talk about "modding" when we take a circuit and modify it by changing components, etc.

[Fyron]

You should have put something like "mawding" in the poll. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[mlmbd]

Fyron, that would be a real good idea, unless you are from the hills. Then some would read it as; Awh 'maw' 'ding'; You don't never leet me have no fun nomore! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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