In article <3a9d4d14@news.povray.org>, "Rune" <run### [at] inamecom> 
wrote:

> Oh I see - I thought lighting and lightning were spelled the same way, but
> they're not!
> 
> Lightning lighting lightning lighting lightning lighting.
> 
> I feel enlightninged now!

Ahem, "enlightened". Being "enlightninged" sounds rather painful, and 
potentially fatal.

"lighting": illumination. Position, brightness, color, etc. of lights in 
a scene.

"lightening": making lighter in color, increasing the amount of light.

"lightning": atmospheric discharges of high-voltage static electricity. 
Lightning has a lightening effect on the lighting of a scene, but is 
otherwise unrelated.

BTW, textures.inc also got this wrong, with the Lightening1 and 
Lightening2 textures, so don't feel too bad. It's called "English". ;-)

-- 
Christopher James Huff
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