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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kannik" data-source="post: 9781899" data-attributes="member: 984">While I get where you are coming from, as noted by others this is such a broad issue across, well certainly the English language but likely across all or nearly all languages.  There are just some things that get put into a vast and broad category.  An issue, perhaps, but mostly/"only" I would say if someone has only been exposed to a narrow subset of closely adjacent things within that category.  Imagine someone sees a chihuahua and learns that's a Dog.  Then they see a pomeranian and a boston terrier.  Dogs.  Cool.  "Do you want to meet my dog?"  "Sure, I love dogs!"  Then they come face to face with a great dane that's nearly the same height as them... But once you get that there is a breadth to the category, the issue rapidly diminishes.  And given, again, that it is so common we're all familiar that many categories get or have modifiers and sub-headings.  And with things like the weather we encounter that kind of thing every day.In the end, perhaps the only "concern" here is that it's a reminder that, because things are so broad, when we talk to others, or market something, or are inviting someone into a game, or etc, it's good to include some amount of those modifiers and sub-categories to ensure clear communication as to what we are talking about.  (Now, if only we can reclaim RPG away from computer games so that we don't need to say TTRPG that would make me happy... it's like saying ice hockey.  Of course hockey takes place ice.  Unless, of course, it's road hockey or ball hockey... that's the only time you need to add a modifier.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" />)</blockquote>

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