Thankfully I've only had to apply that rule once. Hopefully never again.
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I'm going to guesstimate you don't like stupid made up words.
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I don't mind portmanteaus, they can be useful, but my inner etymologist gets angry when both words mean the same thing - like "chillax" or "guesstimate" - since it doesn't actually convey any additional meaning.
Even worse is when both words actually have the same root. Every other day I hear someone cracking up over a pun and think "That's not nearly as clever as you think it is. They used to be the same word anyway, they just got corrupted and drifted apart; Now you're looking at twins and finding it hilarious that they look the same". I harbour a lot of quiet despisal for my fellow man.
But "Revengeance" is as stupid as it gets. "Vengeance" and "revenge" are practically the same concept even to a layman; When you consider that the root word is "Venge", basically "spite", you can see that "A-venge" is to end spite, "Venge-ful" is to be spiteful, "Re-venge" is to continue spite, and "Venge-ance" is just an act of spite.
As you can see, "Revengeance" is such an utterly imbecilic title that I've been forced to sound fairly clever just to communicate
quite how stupid it is.
tl;dr They should have just called it MGS: Spitey spite spite-spite
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