40d Talk:Adamantium

Adamantine means literally, "having the properties of adamantium" Adamantium IS NOT a seperate material, and removing it from the word that forms its definition: Adamantine is completely and utterly absurd.

One is a noun, the other is an adjective. No bullshit. [1]

Either way, this article should not exist because of some fanboy discontinuity in your head. – unsigned comment by Eerr

Glad you agree they are two entirely different words, and not a mis-spelling. In a fantasy world - or a fantasy game - a word means whatever the author decides it means. In DF, the adjective Adamantine has been redefined, reinvented to be a fantasy noun. There is no "Adamantium" in DF, and so a simple redirect is inappropriate. If a user is accustomed to the RL word and RL definition (as you seem to be) and gets it mixed up, this page gently corrects them. --Albedo 06:28, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

Wrt DF, many authors will write "adamantium" when they should be writing "adamantine". Since there is no such thing as "adamantium" in the DF universe, an article explaining how "adamantium" and "adamantine" are different doesn't really belong here. In the scope of this wiki, "adamantium" will never appear except as a misspelling of "adamantine". VengefulDonut 07:55, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

I completely disagree. Since they sound only superficially alike, I don't see how one could be a "misspelling" of the other, any more than "fortress" vs "fortification" could be a misspelling (and yet significantly different in meaning), or "gigantic" and "giant cave spider" - some similar sounds, but nothing alike. However, I agree that "many authors write 'adamantium' when they should be wringig 'adamantine' ". Since we agree that "adamantium" does not exist in the DF universe, how can it redirect anywhere within that universe? It is "wrong", by your own admission, and as such should not be acknowledged as anything but that.--Albedo 11:46, 30 May 2009 (UTC)