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[NoMoreFun]

[Awaclus]

Nobels? I think getting a lot of Nobels is a good idea in any situation.

[GwinnR]

No action cards in your deck?

(And Inn gives you +2 cards and +2 actions too, but you have to dicard two cards.)

[SirPeebles]

we seriously need an edge case thread

Did someone say need?

[enfynet]

First world problems:
Reads whole topic on iPod
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[Kirian]

Nobels? I think getting a lot of Nobels is a good idea in any situation.

I'm also thinking that "piledrove" needs to be taken out back and shot.

[ipofanes]

I'm also thinking that "piledrove" needs to be taken out back and shot.

(as a non-native speaker) "piledrived"?

[GwinnR]

I'm also thinking that "piledrove" needs to be taken out back and shot.

(as a non-native speaker) "piledrived"?

Also as a non-native speaker: My dictionnary says the past-forms of drive are drove and driven. So it will be the same for piledrive.

[Avalanchian]

I'm also thinking that "piledrove" needs to be taken out back and shot.

(as a non-native speaker) "piledrived"?

Also as a non-native speaker: My dictionnary says the past-forms of drive are drove and driven. So it will be the same for piledrive.

As a native speaker: piledriven just sounds more natural to me, but as I believe piledrive is not really a standard English word (it's used in wrestling, but I guess that it is a technical term there as well) then both should be acceptable. GwinnR's dictionary speaks the truth. 

[Jimmmmm]

You would say "Opponent piledrove" or "Opponent has piledriven".

[ipofanes]

I think the rub is that the verb is not directly derived (deriven?) from the verb "drive" but from the noun "piledriver". So to some people "piledrivered" may even sound more acceptable.

As an aside, this is how I see, as an outsider, English:
http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/3su1i4/

[Jimmmmm]

So to some people "piledrivered" may even sound more acceptable.

Only to those who say "Ruinses".

[Morgrim7]

So to some people "piledrivered" may even sound more acceptable.

Only to those who say "Ruinses".

ruinses my precioussss...ruinsed we are!

[ChocophileBenj]

While talking about English, I think preterit is the right tense, right ?

And by the way, why... why the French name for the checkers piece "bishop" is "fou" and in Dominion you have...

[DWetzel]

Inspired by a set in the tournament finals:

[Kirian]

And by the way, why... why the French name for the checkers piece "bishop" is "fou" and in Dominion you have...

The bishop, unlike the other chess pieces, has a bunch of different names in different languages, including runner, bishop, elephant and, of course, madman/jester.

Meanwhile, English is the odd one out for the rook, which almost every other language calls tower or castle.

[flies]

Meanwhile, English is the odd one out for the rook, which almost every other language calls tower or castle.

srsly.  it ain't no crow.  It's never a crow.  It's a tower or castle.  (merriam webster suggests it's derived from the Persion "rukh", which seems to be the fabled giant bird aka "roc", but that still makes no sense.) 

[ipofanes]

And by the way, why... why the French name for the checkers piece "bishop" is "fou" and in Dominion you have...

The bishop, unlike the other chess pieces, has a bunch of different names in different languages, including runner, bishop, elephant and, of course, madman/jester.

Not quite unlike all, as knight is called leaper or steed in other languages.

[SirPeebles]

[SirPeebles]

[Davio]

[SirPeebles]

Success kid: copy of Menagerie!

(...or Fishing Village, Festival, ...)

[jotheonah]

I wanted that to be a real website.

But when I Googled it, this was the top hit, hilariously:

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Dominion_philosophy

Now I want to make a Dominion-Dominion meme with Weyoun. Will take some thought.

[theory]

I'm also thinking that "piledrove" needs to be taken out back and shot.

(as a non-native speaker) "piledrived"?

Also as a non-native speaker: My dictionnary says the past-forms of drive are drove and driven. So it will be the same for piledrive.

Wikitionary:

piledrive (third-person singular simple present piledrives, present participle piledriving, simple past piledrove, past participle piledriven)

Given how surprisingly NSFW that page is, though, I don't know how much credibility to lend to this wikitionary.

[aaron0013]

Piledrave.