Qunit or Penta?

I just say 5-boxing.

I'll never understand how people think there's something wrong with arguing about things on the internet, as if it's somehow an inferior medium for communication. (quite the opposite)

The problem with arguments such as this one is that it's just a silly thing to try and use logic to solve. The word "boxing" as we're using it is a brand new word - or brand new definition of an old word - and so it would have no established or accepted naming convention. Naming something based off logic or a vote is ridiculous because that isn't necessary with language. Language is established through use. Besides, even if we all agree about calling it one thing or another, we'd be assholes to ever actually berate someone for using the other word, since it's perfectly clear and correct English to use either if you aren't aware of the community conventions.

What if you're running 8 clients on 4 machines?

I don't think my shoes were designed for slippery slopes like this. :P

I always say Pentaboxing myself.

These two were emo'ing about this in IRC for a good 20 minutes today.

I, of course, had better things to do...
http://www.watching-grass-grow.com/

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Originally Posted by 'succulent',index.php?page=Thread&postID=110744#po st110744

I just say 5-boxing.

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so do I really - 5box. but pentabox sounds awesome.

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Originally Posted by 'Stabface',index.php?page=Thread&postID=110435#pos t110435

Can you name one word -- off the top of your head, without using google/dictionary/etc -- that is commonly used in English and has quinq- as a prefix?
I can't think of any, but off the top of my head, penta- words :

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Quintessential.

i was wondering how long it would take for a thread as bad as raf #200 and congratulations we have a winner, argueing somantics is not only moot, its completely useless. claiming victory is just that over the internet, its claiming and nothing more, hence the special olympics reference posted by the "smart" person in this thread.

use whatever phrase you want, say what you want, do what you want, even argue if you want but dont ever expect the argument to end, because the medium called the internet allows for people to never back down.

ps. you only ever really lose an argument over the internet when you resort to using the words "nazi or hitler"

my 2c

if a gm asked what you where doing, i would keep it simple so he would understand it, no point in getting your acountS banned becous you used words he have to google to find out what ment.

on the other flipside of the coin, does it really matter what one call the various number of boxing as long as people understand what we are doing?
use latin, or greek or tech english or plain english, as long as the people your talking to understand what your saying.

i usually keep it simple and say multi boxing, or five boxing everyone with average english aka most wow players understand that,

pretty sure that both quenit, penta, multiboxing, five boxing and other words are correct as long as it is used in the rigth situation.

Silver

"five boxing" or "multiboxing" is my general answer, can't expect the "omg you're a loser playing 4 accounts" to know what penta is if he can't count to 5.