Thread:Lostone2/@comment-31763506-20170724034726

The various orc pages have an infobox that defines their "first apparition". This should be "first appearance". I'd go in and fix them myself but I'm wary of breaking the infobox.

"Apparition" is technically a noun form of the verb "appear" in English, but the definition is almost never used with regard to a person appearing in prefernce to an object or thing, and then only very rarely for these latter.

When it gets used, it practically always means a ghost or a vision of a dead person.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apparition

This is one of those cases where English/Romance cognates bite you because English usage has evolved differently. A similar case that befuddled me while studying Spanish is that "apprehend" <> "apprender".

The English noun form "apprehension" originially meant the same thing as "comprehension", acquiring understanding, that is the same as the Spanish word "to learn", but now refers to a sense of fear or anxiety, or the noun form of the ordinary meaning of the verb "apprehend", which is "to arrest" a criminal, apparently (another non-equivalent derivation from "appear") because the original Latin meaning was "to grasp". And of course "grasp" can also be used idiomatically in English for "learn", but generally only in the same sense as "comprehension": a sudden realization that clarifies a previously difficult concept. (Although the old meaning "to learn" lives on in the mostly obsolete English word "apprentice".)

In other words, English is a very stupid language, which is probably why genuinely intelligent creatures like orcs generally have so much trouble with it. : ) 