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Message: <blockquote data-quote="arwink" data-source="post: 826427" data-attributes="member: 2292">i dunno, I think something like this could be a little more taunting:"Come on, Eric, they're just words.  What kind of snobbery is this?  You're whining about other people's use of the english language.  All these words only have negative meanings because that's what you attribute to them.  Sure, it's universally agreed that words like theurge and semprini mean something more capable of producing DM angst than they did a week a go, but is it the posters fault that the meanings got broken by WotC?  If you don't like what a word means, or the connotations attached, just house rule and quite being one of the whiners who sits around complaining that words like munchkin and metagaming are going to get the shaft in 3.5.  Just train yourself to reinterpret these words as meaning "everything is cool.  Ohmmmm" and those ulcers will just drift away.  Language, meaning and interpretation are a playground, all you've got to do is learn to stay up on the balance beam and avoid the winos who lurk down the back.  It's not like everyone out there agrees on things like the interpretation of various alignments, or what may or may not be balanced or unbalanced.  If you've adapted to that, treat language the same way.  Rule 0 meaning, if you want.  Interpretation is in the eye of the beholders.  All in all, it's really not worth getting your knickers in a twist."Of course, that could be seen as trying to hard <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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