Wyvern or Dragon?

quote FreedomHunter

secondly (on-topic) Wikipedia knows nothing, wyverns can have 1 leg two legs 4 legs 4254564 legs or none, doesn't matter as some wyverns can fly without legs or feet and if I'm not mistaken wyvern and dragons are the exact same thing. I have like a library in my room and probably could find a book on dragons as books are much more reliable sources of information than online


. Also they don't "spit" fire they breathe it, spitting involves the watery liquids in your mouth.

Sometimes I wonder about peoples age...

First of all, Wyvern can't just have as many legs as they want. They generally have either 2, or in rarer cases 0, or if they had 2 and then lost 1, then they have only 1.
Secondly Wikipedia knows alot, far more than you ever will in 10x your lifetime. You simply don't seem to know how to use the knowledge it provides. Of course you shouldn't literally quote everything they say, but it is a fair source of information nevertheless. Heck, it even states that the Wyverns go back to mediaeval heraldry. Even Pliny the Elder already included them in his stories, so unless your private information about the 1st century is better than that of the biggest encyclopedia in the world I suggest you shut up about that.

If you think Wyverns and Dragons are the same thing that's like saying Snakes and Lizards are the same. They clearly aren't. The both are sub-species of the reptile-classification.

And 'spitting fire' is shooting a fiery projectile from the mouth, so any monster using fireballs against you is spitting fire. Ty only monsters breathing fire are Lunastra and Teostra.

I'm really starting to wonder what your sources are. The book Eragon???

quote Aus

quote ippiki_ookami

quote Aus

go use an SnS and get away from my Hammers.

I'll use whatever weapon I want, thank you very much.

Cool story, bro?
Too bad you suck *bleep* when it comes to hammers, though. You need a n00b weapon, sir--how 'bout TDS?

quote ippiki_ookami

quote Aus

hurrhurr

Compelling argument. I appreciate your input.

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quote Aus

^ Nagger.

He may not be trolling in every single post, but he is obviously a troll.
If you can't tell from those posts, get your troll detection fixed.

Now back to topic.
In my very first post about this topic (which was still in the Juggernaut topic) I already stated that the definition is vague to begin with. Wyverns generally have 2 legs, but can have 0 legs too, hence the origin of the word "vivere" = snake -> no legs.
Also the link you provided doesn't show shit.
I have been taken the info from Wikipedia, which is quoting from Pliny, who happens to be one of the earliest sources I have found. You bring up a link with a worldnetweb definition on top which contradicts itself in just 1 line (it states it is a dragon yet just being half dragon and half snake).

I keep seeing you stating books. Go ahead and link us to some or quote from them. Books can be found online too and if you base your argument on it, then show us a bit more details then just 'books say otherwise'. This is a discussion topic, not an "I say A, so A is universally right"-topic.

It may be true that Wikipedia isn't universally reliable either, but as stated before, if we are talking about historical courses, you can safely assume it is right. I'm not a wiki fanatic like you're trying to put me, but I know when I can assume Wiki is right and reliable and when it is not.
Teachers? Good joke. Teachers are humans too. They get at least 80% of their information from the same sources than you and me and everyone else. They aren't a library computer, you know.
I wonder where you get .... lets say biographical data from people who died ... from. Your private newspaper archive?

Btw, people like you shouldn't exactly call others morons. I dare to say I have better common sense than you (which your way to argue proves - you haven't names a single specific source yet, but you do insult others in your argument) and chances are I might be on my way getting a better education than you too. I for my part am working on getting my Bachelor of Arts at university.


Anyway, moving on to the more interesting and intelligent part of the discussion...kleo's post.

A bird is classified a bird when 'most' factors that birds have, or the most characteristic ones, the single species has too.
Example: Birds have wings, a beak, lay eggs, have a unique bone structure which usually enables them to fly (not going into details on this one) etc.
Penguins as well as chicken fit these criteria, so they are categorized as birds.
Same procedure with fishes, just with different criteria.
Whales and Dolphins if I'm not mistaken are not regarded fish because their birthing procedure is that of mammals.

And now on to cowboi:
While it may be true that it's the same word / letter in japanese, many japanese games go back to Western European or Norse Mythology. A perfect example is the Valkyrie Profile series or even Devil May Cry.
So we can assume that even if it's the same for the japanese in general, it was based on the wyverns from western mythology, so we can base our argument on these as well.

quote Wakaman

Lulz,so many damn spelling errers(<- on purpose)
I'm surprised I saw some from you too Terry.

That's because english isn't my first language and it isn't an official language in my country either (quite obviously in germany).
So the more we move away from the standard conversation with the every-day vocabulary, the more typos or grammatical errors you'll find in my post. If we could discuss this whole thing in german, I'm sure I would make less typos xDDD
And if I made any, you'd be less likely to find them too xP

And, I've found some posts in this topic somewhat offensive, which led to some semi-uncontrolled rage posts on my part. My brain usually goes into standby mode when doing so.