Why is it called funnel?

[midges]

Maybe it is just me who wonders, as I am not a native speaker but:

Isn't a funnel a device where EVERYTHING that goes in comes out (unless you pour too fast)? Isn't 0-level DCC the exact opposite? Why didn't you call it filter or sieve?

cheers,

midges

[michaelcurtis]

I believe this was Joseph Goodman's reasoning for calling it a "funnel."

[GnomeBoy]

While I love Mr. Curtis' answer, I think it has to do with the shape of a funnel.

• Wide at the top (lots of characters)

• Narrow at the bottom (far fewer characters)

/2cp

[DM Marcus]

While I love Mr. Curtis' answer, I think it has to do with the shape of a funnel.

• Wide at the top (lots of characters)

• Narrow at the bottom (far fewer characters)

/2cp

Bingo! I believe we have a winner.

[midges]

hehe. from now on I am gonna call it "The character grinder"

[cthulhudarren]

Maybe it is just me who wonders, as I am not a native speaker but:

Isn't a funnel a device where EVERYTHING that goes in comes out (unless you pour too fast)? Isn't 0-level DCC the exact opposite? Why didn't you call it filter or sieve?

cheers,

That is true, the analogy breaks down when you look too closely.

[GnomeBoy]

There are common substances (cinnamon springs to mind [but then again, when doesn't it?]) that when you try to put them through a funnel, a bit comes through, but the rest of the stuff hangs up in the funnel.

I submit the analogy stands.

[Mad Mage]

Because "character Klein bottle" just doesn't have the same ring to it...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klein_bottle

[Weisenwolf]

Foolish Peasants & Yeoman are concentrated together as a funnel might do and are then ‘funnelled’ through the underworld.

I guess the funnel refers to the gathering of the hapless at the beginning of the game rather than the thinning out by the end of it.

[Ravenheart87]

Isn't a funnel a device where EVERYTHING that goes in comes out (unless you pour too fast)?:

Everything that goes in comes out. Usually in small pieces.

[NJPDX]

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[Clangador]

Lots go in, few come out in a fine red mist...

[GnomeBoy]

Earlier today, something made me think of the term 'funnel cloud' which is something that often leaves fewer folks alive in its wake than were in it's path...

And also, I then thought of funnel cake, too. Because, funnel cake.