New tag discussion: centauroid

moved from post #561050

PowerToole said:
Centaur?
Define "centaur".

danihana said:
It's a centauroid creature. Basically anything that has the upper body of a human connected to the body of a multi-legged animal is a centaur or taur.

PowerToole said:
Not according to the Greeks, baby.

Centaurs are half-human and half-horse or they are just not centaurs.

Why not use the term "chimera"?
Is there a chimera tag?

walterjones2 said:
Chimeras are usualy a mix of creatures without human parts. I know I've seen this sort of thing before. I'll check & get back to it.

flannan said:
It's like necromancy - nobody cares that it used to mean 'divining by the dead', everyone thinks of raising skeletons and zombies.
Centauroids that are not centaurs are rare, do you really want another tag just to separate them?

PowerToole said:
The term "chimera" applies to homo sapiens too, but not only that: There's an actual medical condition usually called chimerism, and it has been observed on humans. Basically a person is not an individual but two, because they have two distinct sets of DNA.

In fact, some lady called Lydia Fairchild was proven to be the aunt of her children. The real mom was Lydia's sister, who was never actually born. Also, there's an episode of doctor House that deals with the condition.

There's a documentary about Lydia called "I Am My Own Twin"

TL;DR: The term does apply to humans!

walterjones2 said:
Interesting. Anyway, I couldn't find the thing I thought I saw this in. However this is closer to a shpinx than a centaur, so I'm gonna change the tag

Dreadhawk said:
Is it just me, or does this look like a photoshop of some random anime girl on top of the tiger from Aladdin?

Jogemu said:
Chimaera in overall terms refers to a mixture of different species. While the original "centaur" from Greek Mythology may refer just to the horse-man, I think this may very well count as a "centauroid" since the physical build is the same. (Like, the animal part still has all the limbs instead of just the hind legs like with a satyr, for example.)

Should we hunt down others to add to this? I already added a few to the listings but I am sure there are more around here.

No real opinion, but whatever the result is should be applied to post #456176 as well. I had no idea how to tag that at the time. Pretty sure the subject is part goat, or something. But then the feet and tail are wrong, so no idea what she is, but she's definitely centauroid if that's a word.

It is a very odd word, I never even heard of it.
But there isn't anything else to describe that image posted... since Sphinx is specific to a Lion, while Centaur is for a Horse body...

I guess this tag would work for four legged fe/male torso creatures.

It's a more generic term, less focused than say centauroid/sphinx or the like, but how does quadruped (or variations thereof) sound? Go a step from that, and say quadruped_hybrid?

Well quadruped would work, I think I'll support centauroid due to it being more obvious on it's relationship with centaur. The tag is to tag creatures with a centaur-like form, so having it in the name doesn't hurt imo. People have a tendency to start incorrectly using a tag (no matter how well defined) if the tag name is too general sounding.

I think people will easily catch on with centauroid, since it's similar to the real word humanoid.

I don't have any particular objection to centauroid, so people can start using that for now. We can always alias it later if someone comes up with a brilliant alternative everyone loves.

If I can flex my sci-fi geek muscles a bit, I can say that creatures of the "four legs and two arms arranged kinda like a centaur" variety are frequently referred to as "Centaroid" regardless of the further details of their descriptions.