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: I am fine with your edits. And thanks for the other improvements to the page you made. --[[User:Cmloegcmluin|Cmloegcmluin]] ([[User talk:Cmloegcmluin|talk]]) 20:02, 28 December 2022 (UTC)

:: Well, at least I'm sure ''vanish'' isn't prevalent on our Discord server. Compare 71 results of ''vanish'' vs 2000+ results of ''tempering out'' as of today. [[User:FloraC|FloraC]] ([[User talk:FloraC|talk]]) 20:34, 28 December 2022 (UTC)

::: That's interesting to see how those usage patterns compare on Discord. Thanks for compiling and sharing the data. I had only searched for for usages of "vanish" myself; I was only seeking to convince myself that a variety of active/influential users used "vanish" in this way, i.e. that it wasn't just me anymore. I did find this to be the case: sintel, tprice, frostburn, A.Liv, Kite, Stephen Weigel, Fumica (yourself), osmium, richie, eurybia, and others have used "vanish" in this way. I think this is strong evidence for synonymy, even if "vanish" is less popular than "temper out".

::: Info on Facebook is not accessible (though I am actively working on making it so!), but I did search in the Yahoo archives. There we have 1864 total hits for "temper out", "tempers out", "tempered out", and "tempering out". For "vanish" we have 1296. Of course, "vanish" is used in other senses, and I can't check all of them, but my intelligent guess based on random sampling per mailing list is about 3 in 4 of those are in the RTT sense. So, we could estimate that forms of "temper out" were always more popular than forms of "vanish", but in the beginning of RTT, it was only about twice as popular. --[[User:Cmloegcmluin|Cmloegcmluin]] ([[User talk:Cmloegcmluin|talk]]) 21:15, 28 December 2022 (UTC)

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 : I am fine with your edits. And thanks for the other improvements to the page you made. --[[User:Cmloegcmluin|Cmloegcmluin]] ([[User talk:Cmloegcmluin|talk]]) 20:02, 28 December 2022 (UTC)
+:: Well, at least I'm sure ''vanish'' isn't prevalent on our Discord server. Compare 71 results of ''vanish'' vs 2000+ results of ''tempering out'' as of today. [[User:FloraC|FloraC]] ([[User talk:FloraC|talk]]) 20:34, 28 December 2022 (UTC)
+::: That's interesting to see how those usage patterns compare on Discord. Thanks for compiling and sharing the data. I had only searched for for usages of "vanish" myself; I was only seeking to convince myself that a variety of active/influential users used "vanish" in this way, i.e. that it wasn't just me anymore. I did find this to be the case: sintel, tprice, frostburn, A.Liv, Kite, Stephen Weigel, Fumica (yourself), osmium, richie, eurybia, and others have used "vanish" in this way. I think this is strong evidence for synonymy, even if "vanish" is less popular than "temper out".
+::: Info on Facebook is not accessible (though I am actively working on making it so!), but I did search in the Yahoo archives. There we have 1864 total hits for "temper out", "tempers out", "tempered out", and "tempering out". For "vanish" we have 1296. Of course, "vanish" is used in other senses, and I can't check all of them, but my intelligent guess based on random sampling per mailing list is about 3 in 4 of those are in the RTT sense. So, we could estimate that forms of "temper out" were always more popular than forms of "vanish", but in the beginning of RTT, it was only about twice as popular. --[[User:Cmloegcmluin|Cmloegcmluin]] ([[User talk:Cmloegcmluin|talk]]) 21:15, 28 December 2022 (UTC)