The most hideous question since "Flash on D or F?"

Eternal Torment·Aug 26, 2017·119 votes·4,512 views

Is it Turret or Tower?

127 Comments

Kitty Cat ToshaAug 26, 201790 votes

Neither. It's "papery things that you sometimes trip over on the way to the nexus"

Velzard of KozAug 26, 201716 votes

Now that we resolved this. Another question. Do people even bother calling Yorick's friends Mistwalkers rather than Ghouls?

sirwaterflesAug 26, 201712 votes

first time i ever heard them called mistwalkers and not ghouls.

Kid InsomniaAug 27, 20172 votes

i call them yoricks minions lul

AzteryzAug 26, 20178 votes

thats all good but im still here wondering

is it drake or dragon?

Final Spark LuxAug 26, 201762 votes

Technically it's both. It's a tower with a turret laser at the top. I'll tell you what it ISN'T though.

It IS NOT I REPEAT NOT TURRENT THERE IS NO N IN TURRET please stay in school kids

SpookyNeedleAug 26, 201719 votes

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Technically it's both. It's a tower with a turret laser at the top. I'll tell you what it ISN'T though.

It IS NOT I REPEAT NOT TURRENT THERE IS NO N IN TURRET please stay in school kids

Used to moderate a stream, saw a bunch of people saying turrent so I made it a banned phrase. That word tilts me

VerxintAug 26, 20173 votes

I still want to know where this misspelling came from

ahferroin7Aug 26, 201714 votes

It comes from an odd bit of psycholinguistics. Words ending with a short 'e' followed directly by a 't' are somewhat uncommon in the English language, but there are a number that end in a short 'e' followed by 'nt' that are in somewhat regular usage ('current' is a good example). As a result of this, some people have a strong subconscious tendency to 'fix' words like turret that aren't 'normal', and will pronounce the non-existent 'n' in the ending syllable of the word. One of the more ironic examples of this is found in the voiceovers for GLaDOS in Portal 2, although she usually does not clearly pronounce 'turret' one way or the other. Interestingly, the same thing happens with other uncommon cases of a short 'e' followed immediately by a hard consonant, but this particular case is one of the only ones to become commonplace.

Ego Sum RedemitAug 27, 20171 votes

KNOWLEDGE IS POWER.

+1 for maximum academic merit

Edit: The word 'turret' does have an almost 'incomplete' feeling off the tongue when you get to the end of it.

ahferroin7Aug 27, 20172 votes

The same could be said about a lot of words English borrowed from foreign languages TBH ('turret' comes from the Old French 'tourette', which means 'little tower', which I find kind of ironic considering the original discussion).

Overall though, it's a great example of how what languages you know influences your subconscious thought processes.

Captain AishiAug 27, 20172 votes

aren't all english words borrowed from foreign languages though? considering english is basically french and saxon fused together XD

Corrupt BlissAug 27, 20173 votes

Thanks for this tid-bit of knowledge!

Velzard of KozAug 26, 20171 votes

Nami So having all of them doesn't increase my Torrent Downloads? Damn it, I protected them for naught.

Funkin DunkinAug 26, 20173 votes

For Nautilus

MelledoneusAug 26, 20178 votes

It IS NOT I REPEAT NOT TURRENT

Blabbering fool. You speak of an ancient phrase of power that you cannot comprehend with your limited grammatical knowledge. The Turrent is my clan's creation, and you shall pay for your insolence, whelp!

Mecha MaIphiteAug 26, 201746 votes

why not just name them individually

meet hank

https://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/leagueoflegends/images/c/c4/Tower.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/200?cb=20141120045510

this one's boris

http://media-titanium.cursecdn.com/attachments/58/38/sr-blue-tower.jpg

SukishooAug 26, 201726 votes

Pretty sure the red one is Serena the Red Magician Turret

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdPQeI_TJVk XD

Also Boris is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0dKItehk-I ;)

3TWarriorAug 27, 20173 votes

"No! My statue! I mean, it didn't look like me to begin with, but still! It was important to me!"

Velzard of KozAug 26, 20174 votes

Hank is my bro, I like hugging him when against Yasuo with minions. Hank holds my back. Be like Hank.

WeatheredAug 26, 201741 votes

Heimer has turrets, The Rift has towers.

5000000000000000Aug 26, 20174 votes

confirmed, Twisted Treeline and Howling Abyss have no towers

LauchmelderAug 26, 201722 votes

It's sandcastle towers, one wave and it's gone.

(and flash is on D because it's a few milliseconds faster, suck it atheists)

notice me Sin piAug 26, 20177 votes

NA server tends to have higher winrate with flash on D because they are very likely to flash by accident when they say "fk me i screwed up" if set up on F. And there's less likely reason to press D by accident during typing

KR server tends to have higher winrate with flash on F because they use the D key to type in "ㅇㅇ" (it's short for yes in korean internet language) to reply to others. And there's less likely reason to press F by accident during typing.

Velzard of KozAug 26, 20176 votes

Just avoid putting it on Alt-Right, that triggers liberal effects in computer.

Darksun DragoonAug 26, 201711 votes

Pylons

Eternal TormentAug 26, 20175 votes

SLAUGHTER THIS PROTOSS HEATHEN!

(jk jk)

Alpha SamsuniAug 26, 201714 votes

https://starcraftdodo.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/yourequiremorepylons.jpg?w=450

Eternal TormentAug 26, 20174 votes

XD i swear, triggers every time

Alpha SamsuniAug 26, 20176 votes

http://orig07.deviantart.net/6b53/f/2009/048/8/9/additional_pylons_by_phildragonbleu.jpg

Eternal TormentAug 26, 20175 votes

http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/016/265/additional_pylons2.jpg

Ionian VulpixAug 26, 201710 votes

Both. Tower is the structure, turret is the weapon function.

ABlueQuakerAug 26, 20179 votes

Announcer says Turret. However, I say tower on the basis that I reserve the word 'Turret' for Heimerdinger. Generally I just refer to them as <Top/Mid/Bot> <Inner/Outer/Inhib>.