Comments on: Meddling with Mettle http://www.dailywritingtips.com/meddling-with-mettle/ Sun, 21 Mar 2010 20:36:00 -0500 hourly 1 By: Thorn http://www.dailywritingtips.com/meddling-with-mettle/comment-page-1/#comment-193978 Thorn Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:06:16 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/?p=3468#comment-193978 I play WoW and that site hurts my brain, certainly looks like a bad translation, there's a glimmer of sense between the strange words to suggest it was originally meant to be readable, but I find myself tempted to "balliform an assault group to carry raids against adversary territories" It has a better ring to it than the gamer speak of "LFG to raid SW" I play WoW and that site hurts my brain, certainly looks like a bad translation, there’s a glimmer of sense between the strange words to suggest it was originally meant to be readable, but I find myself tempted to “balliform an assault group to carry raids against adversary territories” It has a better ring to it than the gamer speak of “LFG to raid SW”

]]> By: thebluebird11 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/meddling-with-mettle/comment-page-1/#comment-193924 thebluebird11 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:34:53 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/?p=3468#comment-193924 AFA the "stents on their mettle": Stents (at least as used in the medical field) are small conduits like straws that are inserted into the body to keep things patent. So you can have stents inserted in your coronary arteries, stents in the bile ducts, etc. They basically function to keep the walls of these structures open, as a bolster. Some are, in fact, made of metal (and called "bare metal stents"), so it is possible that this entry too plays on the words mettle/metal. There are other stents that are impregnated with various drugs ("drug-eluting stents"), and these drugs are slowly released over time (e.g. anti-clotting agents, antibiotic agents etc). Altho I don't know the specific context of the above-mentioned phrase about stents, I assume that it is talking about testing the mettle of stents (seeing how they compare, hold up over time, etc). AFA the “stents on their mettle”: Stents (at least as used in the medical field) are small conduits like straws that are inserted into the body to keep things patent. So you can have stents inserted in your coronary arteries, stents in the bile ducts, etc. They basically function to keep the walls of these structures open, as a bolster. Some are, in fact, made of metal (and called “bare metal stents”), so it is possible that this entry too plays on the words mettle/metal. There are other stents that are impregnated with various drugs (”drug-eluting stents”), and these drugs are slowly released over time (e.g. anti-clotting agents, antibiotic agents etc). Altho I don’t know the specific context of the above-mentioned phrase about stents, I assume that it is talking about testing the mettle of stents (seeing how they compare, hold up over time, etc).

]]> By: Brad K. http://www.dailywritingtips.com/meddling-with-mettle/comment-page-1/#comment-193805 Brad K. Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:08:19 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/?p=3468#comment-193805 I think of mettle as an attribute, like the sheen of a fabric. Mettle is an attribute of character composed of competence, perseverance, and of dependable responsibility. Mettle might mean "having moxie". Maybe. On your mettle, then, would be to encourage one to efforts and application such as to display the mettle of their character. Mettlesome, other than the "Buy wow . . ." thing, is displaying the aspects of mettle through diligence and honor. On the gamer thing. That might be a bad translation from another human language. But it also looks like a bad SEO thing, a page of gibberish generated to impress some gamer search engine, but not actually intended to be viewed by people. I think of mettle as an attribute, like the sheen of a fabric. Mettle is an attribute of character composed of competence, perseverance, and of dependable responsibility.

Mettle might mean “having moxie”. Maybe.

On your mettle, then, would be to encourage one to efforts and application such as to display the mettle of their character.

Mettlesome, other than the “Buy wow . . .” thing, is displaying the aspects of mettle through diligence and honor.

On the gamer thing. That might be a bad translation from another human language. But it also looks like a bad SEO thing, a page of gibberish generated to impress some gamer search engine, but not actually intended to be viewed by people.

]]> By: Iapetus999 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/meddling-with-mettle/comment-page-1/#comment-193760 Iapetus999 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 04:00:48 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/?p=3468#comment-193760 And I would have gotten away with it, if it wasn't for you meddling kids and your dog! And I would have gotten away with it, if it wasn’t for you meddling kids and your dog!

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