• vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
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    8 days ago

    Legionaries call basically everyone not in the Legion profligate. I think it’s Vulpes Inculta at Nipton who uses the term first assuming you’re doing a normal playthrough and not doing something weird.

    Also I did not know Slavic languages had “prof” as a positive root.

    Also if ya want a definition. A profligate is someone or sometimes something which is either in possession of extreme wealth or is missing wealth.

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      8 days ago

      I think many would assume it is connected to professor, professional and other profs. Someone carrying an institution-verified skill set.

      So it’s a noun as profligate? I thought it’s a verb, and thought it would profligator or something.

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        Okay I see what you mean with the prof prefix.

        As for it functioning as a whole it’s just a really fucken old word. For example it can also be used to mean overthrown, beaten, or conquered. Old words get weird after awhile.