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Constitutional Characters. A systematic set of names for Major and Minor pieces.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

Mark Thompson wrote on Thu, Dec 11, 2003 04:20 AM UTC:

My two cents' worth is that 'orthogonal' (as used in game rules) and
'triagonal' are 'terms of art,' useful in descriptions of game rules
and hardly anywhere else, and therefore known to people interested in
games but not to most others (including lexicographers). I'm mildly
interested to learn from the discussion here that their derivations are
probably based on confusions, but this doesn't diminish them in my
regard. Lots of good words were originally coined ineptly. Any attempt to
replace 'orthogonal' with 'lateral,' or 'triagonal' with
'vertexal,' or with any other new coinages, is more likely to create
confusion than remove it.