On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Davdi Silverrock wrote: > On 1/11/06, Jon_Lincicum at stream.com <Jon_Lincicum at stream.com> wrote: > > > > >What self-respecting Dragaeron sorcerer(ess) would lower him/herself > > >to learning witchcraft > > Morrolan e'Drien? Having learned it before sorcery, he can hardly learn it as a sorcerer. And is he self-respecting? Perhaps he's self-regarding - but reflective enough to be the former? No, his insistence on honor in _J_ is self-respect I suppose. > > Sorry, I used the word "magic" there just to be a synonym for "sorcery". > > And you were generally correct in doing so. "Magic" is the general > term which encompasses all of the branches of, well, magic, and > therefore includes sorcery. Taking "synonym" to mean, "A word having the same or nearly the same meaning as another word" (though I would prefer a definition describing the relationship between a pair of words), I disagree. That sorcery is an example of magic is generally accepted, though I might quibble about the technological aspects of the former being inconsistent with the latter's sense of "supernatural" (the former is unusual physics plus engineering, the latter [e.g., witchcraft] isn't explicable), so "metonymous" might be better than "synonymous".