Matthew
I love weather; Sun for days
How is it grammatically incorrect to say spin blocker over spinblocker? in fact it's wrong of us to actually use spinblocker without having to first coin the word itself, which really says quite a bit about it. Once again i'm not for using non-words in an analysis and then just coining them because our writers refuse to do something correctly. Just because it is a norm for a user to put spinblocker doesn't mean we should use it, we should use the best grammar and prose when checking and editing sets, and unfortunately spinblocker doesn't fall under the best.I stand by "spinblocker" and "wallbreaker" without either a hyphen or a space. Using a space instead of a hyphen is grammatically incorrect and also not common terminology. We are suggesting the coined terms spinblocker, wallbreaker, and stallbreaker (among other similarly formed ones) on the fact that they are coined. None of them are to be capitalized, and moves are only to be capitalized when they are fully instanced. (ie. Rotom-H can block Rapid Spin, Scizor can Baton Pass Swords Dance boosts, etc.)
STAB, OHKO, sweeper, tank, wall, all of these are pokemon jargon. These aren't made up words, we're just using them in a different way. (Also STAB and OHKO are acronyms but they are still words I guess?) Comparing something like wallbreaker to sweeper is silly, since they're two different things (one's a real word while the other is not)As to Genny's point --
There are many things that are used incorrectly insofar as you are claiming it as a problem. STAB, for instance, is something that we allow as an adjective, when that which it abbreviates is not an adjective. Same Type Attack Bonus is a noun, yet we even go so far as to use it as a noun to entirely replace the word "attack" as a "STAB". (Again, another incorrect coined way to describe something) I think that the introduction of new words as coined terms is entirely legitimate; this is how new words are introduced in many different communities and endeavors. (such as Physics, a career I am very familiar with)
I also don't think we should be using outspeed as I mentioned earlier. The correct term is outpace or outrun, or if someone really wants to use it then out speed.The community has "coined" words before (outspeed), so I don't see why the same can't apply to "wallbreaker/spinblocker/etc".