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<blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 8364877" data-attributes="member: 6704184">We're talking about a world where the vast majority of people are not spellcasters and have an interest in spellcasters being able to shut eachother down without things blowing up. You can't really choose to not know jargon. In a courtroom scenario, it can simply be explained to you. No amount of trying to be obtuse and &quot;not get it&quot; is going to help you. If it takes an hour to blast that understanding that the term &quot;fusicate&quot; means &quot;tell the entire truth without embellishment and withholding nothing&quot; or whatever years of practice and experience teaches the people using this methodology needs to be the wording to get the desired effect. Hell, make a witness or defendant or whatever speak a very clear oath, make them explain the oath to the court's satisfaction, and then cast command using a term that everyone knows means &quot;do what the oath says&quot;. In a fight, &quot;deconcentrate&quot; would have a decent chance of working. Again, you can't rules lawyer your brain into not understanding something. You have extremely little control over that process. there is no way for anyone to accomplish what you propose. It's not possible. It would require your parents, teachers, and peers all conspiring from your earliest youth to ensure that you don't understand common terms in the same way that everyone else in your society does.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="doctorbadwolf, post: 8364877, member: 6704184"] We're talking about a world where the vast majority of people are not spellcasters and have an interest in spellcasters being able to shut eachother down without things blowing up. You can't really choose to not know jargon. In a courtroom scenario, it can simply be explained to you. No amount of trying to be obtuse and "not get it" is going to help you. If it takes an hour to blast that understanding that the term "fusicate" means "tell the entire truth without embellishment and withholding nothing" or whatever years of practice and experience teaches the people using this methodology needs to be the wording to get the desired effect. Hell, make a witness or defendant or whatever speak a very clear oath, make them explain the oath to the court's satisfaction, and then cast command using a term that everyone knows means "do what the oath says". In a fight, "deconcentrate" would have a decent chance of working. Again, you can't rules lawyer your brain into not understanding something. You have extremely little control over that process. there is no way for anyone to accomplish what you propose. It's not possible. It would require your [I]parents, teachers, and peers[/I] all conspiring from your earliest youth to ensure that you don't understand common terms in the same way that everyone else in your society does. [/QUOTE]

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