WhiteRaven wrote:
jjstar wrote:
I'd like to challenge anubis who followed my
*clan*
With his
*gaming*
Huh? Are you randomly posting words or is there a connection and if there is - what is it tangibly..?
most online MMORPGs have player controlled clans, so yes, clans does fit in with gaming
Not everyone is familiar with the gaming jargon which are seemingly to the regular, ordinary non-gamer random, disjointed and un-associated in respect to the game which we're playing - Word Association.
No mention is made on Free Dictionary
clan (kln)
n.
1. A traditional social unit in the Scottish Highlands, consisting of a number of families claiming a common ancestor and following the same hereditary chieftain.
2. A division of a tribe tracing descent from a common ancestor.
3. A large group of relatives, friends, or associates.
nor on any other online non-gamer dictionary such as everything.com which had this to say about the word:
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clan
n : group of people related by blood or marriage [syn: kin, kin
group, kinship group, kindred, tribe]
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Clan \Clan\, n. [Gael. clann offspring, descendants; akin to Ir.
clann, cland, offspring, tribe, family; perh. from L. plania
scion, slip, cutting. Cf. Plant, n.]
1. A tribe or collection of families, united under a
chieftain, regarded as having the same common ancestor,
and bearing the same surname; as, the clan of Macdonald.
``I have marshaled my clan.'' --Campbell.
2. A clique; a sect, society, or body of persons; esp., a
body of persons united by some common interest or pursuit;
-- sometimes used contemptuously.
Partidge and the rest of his clan may hoot me.
--Smolett.
The whole clan of the enlightened among us. --Burke.