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[–] 11 points 9 months ago (10 children)
  • [–] 27 points 9 months ago (9 children)

    Yeah, the cleric filled it too early. Didn't want to work on Saturday.

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  • [–] 26 points 9 months ago (8 children)

    Clerk, BTW.

    A cleric is a member of the clergy (and typically the healer in an adventuring party)

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    Hmm yes but surely clerk is just a descendant of cleric right? It’s almost a contraction

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    It is actually!

    Basically only the clergy could read and write, so they handled accounting and acted as scribes to nobles and the monarchy.

    It split off like 600 years ago or so

    Edit: a few extra words added in, I'm going to blame the keyboard/autocorrect just because I can.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (3 children)

    Lots of words have unified origins. They diverge to allow 2 different concepts to be named. Calling someone a cleric still means something different to calling them a clerk.

    However, a clerical error could be ambiguous. Likely as the term was less common, and so didn't have enough usage to warrant divergence.

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