How do you spell modding?

[Fyron]

I always try to vote for the nonsense option in polls if there is one.

[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.

[ 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

[ 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 ).

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