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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pielorinho" data-source="post: 3162225" data-attributes="member: 259">No; it means that the description of the child's circumstances were false.  It was not the case that the child would not receive a cookie until he finished his dinner.It does look to me as though you're assuming that Break Enchantment is wrong, then.  Does Break Enchantment actually do what the spell claims that it does?  Does it function exactly as it's written?I'm just not sure I see that this is a useful distinction.  Can you point me to an official use of the rules?  And are you certain that all official uses of the rules are consistent with one another?As I understand language, words themselves say nothing:  they communicate thoughts from one head to another with varying degrees of success.  They are the goblets that hold the wine of meaning, not the wine itself.  We therefore cannot establish a single meaning for a set of words; the closest we can come is to try to understand what their creator intended for us to understand.Everyone here is trying to figure out the best interpretation of the rules, but as we can all see, intelligent people can reach different conclusions about what this best interpretation is--how we should best translate the squiggles of ink into meaning.  I think that's inescapable, and it's worth keeping that feature of human language in mind in any discussion of game rules.Daniel</blockquote>