Is "Emmersive" a proper word?
Womb Raider
"Gee, that game was so emmersive I forgot to eat for three days."
Thanks
WR (the new person here)
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Martin Ambuhl
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> I can't seem to find any dictionary that lists "Emmersive". As in,
> "Gee, that game was so emmersive I forgot to eat for three days."
What do you think it means? "Made of spelt" is the best I can do.
What is the difference between "Emmer" and "Dinkel"?
"That game was so emmersive."
"That game was so emmerlich"."
"That game was so speltish".
Odysseus
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> I can't seem to find any dictionary that lists "Emmersive". As in,
> "Gee, that game was so emmersive I forgot to eat for three days."
>
Literally, "immerse" means to submerge in liquid, but figuratively it
can mean to absorb or preoccupy, which I think fits your context.
If "emmerse" exists -- I haven't seen it -- it would probably have the
opposite meaning, as the prefix "e-" in Latinate words suggests motion
out or away; "im-" is a form of "in-" used before labial consonants and
of course denotes inward motion.
--Odysseus
Donna Richoux
> I can't seem to find any dictionary that lists "Emmersive". As in,
> "Gee, that game was so emmersive I forgot to eat for three days."
Try some form of "immerse."
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Michael West
"Womb Raider wrote
> I can't seem to find any dictionary that lists "Emmersive". As in,
> "Gee, that game was so emmersive I forgot to eat for three days."
>
>
Must have been beaver you were after?
How did you finally lure him out of the water?
Hope the meal was worth the effort. If not, try
squirrel next time.
--
MW
Melbourne
Franke
Womb Raider wrote:
> I can't seem to find any dictionary that lists "Emmersive". As in,
> "Gee, that game was so emmersive I forgot to eat for three days."
The "e"-word you want is "engrossing".
Womb Raider
Emmersive does seem to be the odd one. However, I can't find Immersive
listed either. Well, at least my paperbound dictionaries and
www.dictionary.com don't seem to have "immersive".
I'll just use Immersive anyway.
Thanks for the replies :)
WR (is terrified to say anything here for fear of it being corrected in
large sweeping swathes of red ink)
http://homepage.mac.com/wombraider/mac/
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Donna Richoux <tr...@euronet.nl> writes:
>Womb Raider <wombr...@macsrbetter2001.com> wrote:
>> I can't seem to find any dictionary that lists "Emmersive". As in,
>> "Gee, that game was so emmersive I forgot to eat for three days."
> Try some form of "immerse."
How about "addictive", "absorbing", or "engrossing"?
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>In article <1epld91.q17ucas1m02kN%tr...@euronet.nl>,
>Donna Richoux <tr...@euronet.nl> writes:
>
>>Womb Raider <wombr...@macsrbetter2001.com> wrote:
>
>>> I can't seem to find any dictionary that lists "Emmersive". As in,
>>> "Gee, that game was so emmersive I forgot to eat for three days."
>
>> Try some form of "immerse."
>
> How about "addictive", "absorbing", or "engrossing"?
How can it be engrossing if you're on a three-day fast?
Ross Howard
N.Mitchum
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> I can't seem to find any dictionary that lists "Emmersive". As in,
> "Gee, that game was so emmersive I forgot to eat for three days."
If the word exists, it would probably be spelled "emersive" or,
more likely, "immersive." But I don't think it exists.
Do you use it, or have you heard it used, in this way? There are
other, better words, you know.
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Interesting analysis. "That game was so emmersive I quit after about five
minutes."
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Although the sense is slightly different, the term "immersive" has
been around for at least the past decade to describe simulations that
fool the senses into believing that the simulated environment is
"real". I probably first came across it with respect to Jaron
Lanier's company, VPL, back in the mid/late '80s, and he may well have
coined the term "immersive virtual reality".
I'm surprised that it isn't in MWCD/ol.
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body, from the shadow which causes its eclipse.
Perhaps an emersive is that which brings about the above emersion, as in to
emerge.
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Michael West
"Evan Kirshenbaum" <kirsh...@hpl.hp.com> wrote in message
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> "N.Mitchum" <aj...@lafn.org> writes:
>
> > Womb Raider wrote:
> > -----
> > > I can't seem to find any dictionary that lists "Emmersive". As in,
> > > "Gee, that game was so emmersive I forgot to eat for three days."
> > >.....
> >
> > If the word exists, it would probably be spelled "emersive" or,
> > more likely, "immersive." But I don't think it exists.
> >
> > Do you use it, or have you heard it used, in this way? There are
> > other, better words, you know.
>
> Although the sense is slightly different, the term "immersive" has
> been around for at least the past decade to describe simulations that
> fool the senses into believing that the simulated environment is
> "real". I probably first came across it with respect to Jaron
> Lanier's company, VPL, back in the mid/late '80s, and he may well have
> coined the term "immersive virtual reality".
>
> I'm surprised that it isn't in MWCD/ol.
>
Thanks for that. Used in that way, it seems a perfectly
good word, and one that conveys something no other
word quite covers.
A remaining question is whether "immersive" can be
used comparatively, as "more immersive" or "so immersive".
I'd probably use "real" or "realistic" or "lifelike" instead.
In the first cited usage, though, I still think "engrossing"
would have worked better: "engrossed in an immersive
(or lifelike) game."
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Michael West
Melbourne