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<blockquote data-quote="Sphyre" data-source="post: 4102033" data-attributes="member: 55424"><p>You can't know. You can prepare contingencies, but you can't know. If you know, then the communication <em>is</em> two ways already. The audience told you something about themselves. Thus invalidating your mention that it's not two way conversation.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The speaker who does not adequately know their target audience would be ineffective at presenting a point, but it's not they're work is internally inconsistent. You must have knowledge, and to gain knowledge you must communicate.</p><p></p><p>Your general rule works absolutely great in terms of addressing people in a speech, yet when it comes to books it's a very poor rule. If you don't know how to read, you shouldn't be reading books. Don't blame people for your inability to learn a word that you found in the medium of a book. It'll happen all through your life. If you neglect learning, then you're not even in the target audience because you don't want to learn the new system in the first place.</p><p></p><p>Especially when it comes to rule sets for games, which people have become accustomed to, you can name something a standard action, and there is no real world parallel to what a "standard action" is. But it's defined in the game. You don't even need to know what the word exploit is, to use exploit as a mechanical name for martial powers.</p><p></p><p>The intention of calling them exploits is extremely fitting, not intended to confuse, and you don't even need to know the word exploit to play the game. As such, it is an excellent name, and if you want to choose to confuse it with something that it is not, that's your prerogative, not the writer's responsibility to not use a word based on your bias.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sphyre, post: 4102033, member: 55424"] You can't know. You can prepare contingencies, but you can't know. If you know, then the communication [i]is[/i] two ways already. The audience told you something about themselves. Thus invalidating your mention that it's not two way conversation. The speaker who does not adequately know their target audience would be ineffective at presenting a point, but it's not they're work is internally inconsistent. You must have knowledge, and to gain knowledge you must communicate. Your general rule works absolutely great in terms of addressing people in a speech, yet when it comes to books it's a very poor rule. If you don't know how to read, you shouldn't be reading books. Don't blame people for your inability to learn a word that you found in the medium of a book. It'll happen all through your life. If you neglect learning, then you're not even in the target audience because you don't want to learn the new system in the first place. Especially when it comes to rule sets for games, which people have become accustomed to, you can name something a standard action, and there is no real world parallel to what a "standard action" is. But it's defined in the game. You don't even need to know what the word exploit is, to use exploit as a mechanical name for martial powers. The intention of calling them exploits is extremely fitting, not intended to confuse, and you don't even need to know the word exploit to play the game. As such, it is an excellent name, and if you want to choose to confuse it with something that it is not, that's your prerogative, not the writer's responsibility to not use a word based on your bias. [/QUOTE]
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