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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jdrakeh" data-source="post: 2927535" data-attributes="member: 13892">Like I said, it's not perfect, but it's commonly accepted and certainly much more useful (where classification is concerned) than taking an already existant term and completely redefining it to mean something that another already existant term means. That's totally pointless. I stand by my assertion elsewhere that this is no different than the uninformed non-gamer incorrectly using the term "D&D" to erroneously refer to all roleplaying games because they can't be bothered to learn the already established system. Using the term "fantasy" to erroneously refer only to those works derivative of medieval Europe and the term "Swords & Sorcery" (a well and long established literary classification of fantasy) to erroneously refer to all fantasy as a whole only takes an already imperfect system and rapes it to produce an even more twisted vernacular and circular system of definition where words are stripped of nearly all meaning. You might as well be making up new words from wholecloth (indeed, that might be more productive). Point is, when one communicates with others, it's best to use the language that they speak, rather than make up new words and new definitions of words that one doesn't like if one expects to be understood (if one doesn't care whether other people understand them, this won't matter much). If one chooses to communicate their thoughts using newly invented words and new definitions for existing words, they really have no reasonable expectation of being understood by those who don't speak their new, made-up, language.And they don't have any grounds to complain that nobody understand them, either. Those are the breaks - if one eschews speaking English for speaking a made-up language of their  own design, chances are, people will have no idea what the hell they're on about.</blockquote>

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