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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gizmo33" data-source="post: 3624346" data-attributes="member: 30001">In fact, some people will use French in place of English simply because of nuance - NOT because the literal definition of the French clarifies anything, but instead because of the entirely historical connotations of the word/phrase and the subtle change in meaning.  The whole point of using such words/phrases is to communicate subtle meaning.  Valid use, IMO, does not constitute being able to insult someone and then claim to be misunderstood because of vagueries in language.Pokemount can fairly be defined as "3.5 paladin mount rules with negative connotations" and there are such definitions of words already.  The definition does not exlusively follow from the definitions of "Pokemon" and "mount", but to claim that it must be the case IMO is poorly understanding the nature of language.There are certain words that are insulting to certain people simply because of context whereas the original latin meaning of such words has no such negative connotation.  It would be insenstive of me to redefine it, ignore the connotations and history of the word, using it over and over, and then tell someone that they're not reading properly for failing to ignore the connotations of the word.  In fact I would say most writing would be incomprehesible without taking into account non-literal meaning.  Admittedly such things are imprecise, and the potential exists for people to misunderstand each other.  Anyone who doesn't get what I'm saying is a nut job, and by nut job I mean an honorable citizen who works in a nut factory.</blockquote>

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