Aliasing power armor -> powered armor.
Reason: More common term.
I'd also like to alias power armour and powered armour to powered armor because Danbooru uses US spelling.
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Aliasing power armor -> powered armor.
Reason: More common term.
I'd also like to alias power armour and powered armour to powered armor because Danbooru uses US spelling.
Updated by jjj14
+1 for power_armor. I think it is more typical to use "power armor" as a split compound noun rather than "powered armor" as an adjective-noun pair. Both make sense, but I agree with Log that the former feels more right.
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Yeah, even though powered armor is technically more correct, I'd really prefer it if we kept it as power armor.
I'd also be in favor of the power armour alias, as 'armor' and 'armour' (just like 'color' and 'colour') both seem to be acceptable ways to spell the word.
Log said:
Google gives 4x the results for power and it "feels" more correct. Only if you search the -ur versions you get more hits for powered.
I get 4,620,000 hits for power armor and 4,700,000 hits for powered armor which is pretty close I admit. Using -our I get 794,000 hits and 6,290,000 hits respectively.
To me, powered feels right because it gives me the sense that the armor is powered by some kind of energy source. Power armor on the other hand makes me think that the armor makes the wearer stronger which isn't always the case.
I believe power_armor is the term generally used in today's popular sci-fi franchises like Fallout and Warhammer 40000.
reese said:
I get 4,620,000 hits for power armor and 4,700,000 hits for powered armor which is pretty close I admit. Using -our I get 794,000 hits and 6,290,000 hits respectively.
If you're searching for exact terms use quotes to get what you want and not a bunch of random hits where they use the word power(ed) and armor in the same page.
Power is 188k, powered 43k.
reese said:
I get 4,620,000 hits for power armor and 4,700,000 hits for powered armor which is pretty close I admit. Using -our I get 794,000 hits and 6,290,000 hits respectively.
Remember with phrases you need to use quotes. "power armor" yields 189,000 hits for me vs only 43,500 hits for "powered armor"
The British spellings yield 38,800 hits for "power armour" and 57,800 for "powered armour".
Of the four, "power armor" is the clear winner, though the British spelling and "-ed" versions seem to favor each other.
As for use, I'm not sure I can think of a case in which an exosuit or power armor is used in which the wearer doesn't gain strength or power. I think that's sort of the point of the device, isn't it? It needs to be something more than just battle armor or a mount-point for weapons.
*EDIT* Log beat me to the quotes bit.
To me "power armor" just sounds like a corruption of what seems to me to be the more intuitive "powered armor". "power armor" seems to use the word "power" much like "power bombs" in super metroid, or whatever (i.e. just as an intensifier), whereas "powered armor" actually describes what subset of armor the phrase is describing -- it refers to exactly those pieces of armor which are internally powered by some mechanical system, usually that accentuates the wearer's natural movements to afford them greater strength than they would normally possess.
So +1 for power armor → powered armor. Google hits aren't always right.
Bapabooiee said:
And ditto goes for Wikipedia.
... so? Nobody has cited Wikipedia here, at least so far. Wikipedia seems to recommend powered exoskeleton. Can't say that's a bad idea, actually, but the subset referring to (combat) armor is more prominent in fiction, and in what you'd find on danbooru. I don't think we are likely to have images of nurses using powered exoskeletons to lift and transport patients on danbooru any time soon.
Also, you're using the word "ditto" wrong. Either say "And the same goes for Wikipedia" or "And ditto Wikipedia" -- in this context it's interchangeable with "likewise".
0xCCBA696 said: Nobody has cited Wikipedia here
I didn't imply that anyone did; that was just my way of saying that thinking about what makes the most sense should take precedence over "well, Google/Wikipedia says X". Not that it was aimed at anyone specifically, since I meant it in a general manner. And as for my use of the word "ditto", don't be so inflexible - it was just a silly slang.
But yeah, I should've been more specific about what I meant. Sorry about that. (/off-topic)
As a less corpus-based argument for "power armor", consider an analogy with "power tool":
tool:armor::power tool:power armor
"Powered tool" on the other hand sounds really really weird except perhaps in context in a contrived sentence. I get a similar, if not quite so strong feeling with "powered armor".
Hmm, good point. The difference I can see, after some thought, is that in a power tool, what's powered is the tool itself, whereas in powered armor, what's powered is actually the wearer of the armor (their locomotive faculty is augmented). So in that sense the armor is "powered" in kind of the same way that gentry are "landed" - nothing is powering the armor itself, but it has been imbued with power, perhaps. Well, this is all getting pretty semantically fuzzy.
But then, both devices take power and provide power at the same time. A power tool is given power (electricity) and in turn imbues power (to drill holes or cut wood) to its user. Power armor is armor given power (usually electricity) and in turn imbues power (to be stronger or better resist damage) to its user.
Also if you want to say "powered" is being used in the same sense as "landed", I would think "empowered" would make more sense, since that word has a closer meaning to what you are saying there. If I think of empowered_suit, I immediately conjure up some 18th century nobleman in a steam powered steam-punk contraption.
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Morphologically, "powered" is a closer analogy to "landed", of course. Perhaps you are associating "empowered" with "landed" due to their similar semantic domains (i.e. "power" in the sense of political or social power). I've never seen "empowered" used to describe anything especially endowed with physical power.
We could borrow from DARPA and alias both to powered_exoskeleton.
0xCCBA696 said:
Perhaps you are associating "empowered" with "landed" due to their similar semantic domains (i.e. "power" in the sense of political or social power). I've never seen "empowered" used to describe anything especially endowed with physical power.
Yes, that was exactly what I was meaning. I think empowered always means something other than physical power though, and it wouldn't be right to use here, which is sort of what I was hinting towards. In any case I'm still not sure how that provides any more support for "powered" over "power".