: Well yeah, you'd prefer to leave it out of discussion, as
: with many other things you got wrong. :-) Concede the
: point and move on, dude.
Hey! :-) I wanted to leave it out the discussion since the beginning! lol! that's the whole point! Foul stabs! :-)
: Not at all; I was using "unlife" to mean
: "sentient undeath," in the belief that I
: could appropriate the word for my own use because it
: was never used to describe any actual Myth creatures.
: How WRONG I was.
Well, if you insist.
: The Wights are hardly fully alive.
Huh?
: This whole "Un-" argument doesn't make a whole
: lot of sense. To quote Oxford, "un" is
: "prefixed to express negation, privation, or with
: the sense 'not having.'" "Reversal" is
: hardly a requisite implication.
Oo, Oxford! Check out Webster, it'll give the ulterior definitions, such as the main one:
1 : do the opposite of : reverse (a specified action) : DE- 1a, DIS- 1a -- in verbs formed from verbs unbend undress unfold
: An uneducated person isn't a formerly educated person
: who's had his education taken away; an unmade bed need
: never have been made.
You're using the past tense. That's the problem; they're adjectives.
: Unlife is just the state of
: lacking life; undeath is the state of lacking death.
: For something like a Thrall, neither alive nor dead,
: "Unlife" and "Undeath" are both
: perfectly appropriate terms.
Not really appropriate or preferred
but mb potential, by your "lacking" definition.
However, I contend that at least "undeath" means reversal of death. Rather, it means "undoing of death". Undoing death doesn't mean to chronologically reverse, but to make do with what presently exists and making it not dead anymore. The factor of time and its passage is key.
