Re: Rant Warning below

Roger Burton West wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 08:08:46AM -0600, Doug Evans wrote:
> 
> >Natch, in B5, where the largest ship the
> >humans have is a 'destroyer', it's obvious, you can get away with
fudge.
> 
> My understanding is that Straczynski and Ellison intended to use naval
> terms, but didn't actually know them well enough to use them correctly
> and didn't bother to hire an advisor.

Pretty much, yeah. And JMS even stated in one of his posts that
he thought "destroyer" sounded neater than "cruiser" (after all,
it's meant to *destroy*, not *cruise*).

Mk