I hate to start a new whole topic about this but the word, POLICE?

OOC or not.

I said it over the city aether before thinking and even I thought it sounded a little weird. However after reading the information about the word on dictionary.com I felt better. I'll post that stuff here too!

This is the context I used it in:

Informal. A group that admonishes, cautions, or reminds: grammar police; fashion police.




The governmental department charged with the regulation and control of the affairs of a community, now chiefly the department established to maintain order, enforce the law, and prevent and detect crime.


I guess maybe it just has a modern sound.

Uhm, not.

I'm going to say is. Because in Lusternia there are guards. Estelbar and the dwarves, for instance, have guards that wander around, and Stewartsville has the Constable and the jail.

So, the IC term would be Guards, or Constables.. since I haven't heard any mention of police, while I have heard the others.

No.

The police stems from the verb to police. Since the etymology is verb to noun, the presence of an IC law-enforcing group called "police" is largely irrelevant.

The whole concept of grammer police though, is modern.

You make my head hurt, Daganev.



Because the noun "police" is derived from the verb "to police", if Lusternians can police anything, they can also have police. Police as a noun is not OOC, unless you also consider all forms of it OOC, which seems silly.

Terms like grammer police, derive thier meaning because of the modern relationship betwen the police and the people.

Only in modern times are the powers of the government limited to an extent that there is able to rise a belief that certain things do not need people guarding over them.

Notice that the terms, Soup Nazi, or Soup police, or Grammer police, or RP Nazi, are all used interchangablly.



What about the term "police action"?

Police is derived from the ancient Greek word meaning "to rule over a city". That is, of course, very modern.

I'd say it's fine to use as a verb, I.E. "The guards are policing the square", but though not blatantly OOC I wouldn't refer to anything as being 'police'.

And only in a post-modern world would anyone think that "grammer" is a "city"...


Basically what you just said sylphas, is that if your not using the word police to mean something in relation to a city then you are using it in a modern context.

isn't entymology the study of insects?

Yes.

Editted to etymology.

I get those two mixed up a lot

Well okay, I feel better now.

But this is the Lusternia forums and we can't have that!

Somebody Flame me quick!

How about the study of ents?

Anyway, I tend to agree with Guido on this. "To police the area" (verb) isn't OOC, but the noun "the police" is rather OOC, since it's a modern, no-way fantasy organization of authority.

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