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<blockquote data-quote="Bedrockgames" data-source="post: 8254201" data-attributes="member: 85555">1- It is entirely possible we just both honestly disagree on this. It is very easy for two people to see something like that and reach different conclusions. And who is right is not always clear (especially when you are talking about language: I once had a 24 hour argument with my best friend in highschool about the pronunciation of genre. It turned out I was pronouncing it the American way, he was pronouncing it the French way (and it was pre-internet so our knowledge was pretty limited at the time). 2- I almost never bring up definitions. The only reason I did was because when I brought up the multiple meanings of fiction, and how that can lead to equivocation, you challenged the idea that my meanings were accurate. So I thought bringing in dictionary definitions would be helpful (especially since you also challenged my understanding of equivocation). I hate prescriptive uses of language in debates, and I hate when people do something like break down a term like RPG into its individual parts and argue from the definitions of those parts. But if someone says to me that my use of a word is incorrect, wouldn't that be the time to bring in the dictionary?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bedrockgames, post: 8254201, member: 85555"] 1- It is entirely possible we just both honestly disagree on this. It is very easy for two people to see something like that and reach different conclusions. And who is right is not always clear (especially when you are talking about language: I once had a 24 hour argument with my best friend in highschool about the pronunciation of genre. It turned out I was pronouncing it the American way, he was pronouncing it the French way (and it was pre-internet so our knowledge was pretty limited at the time). 2- I almost never bring up definitions. The only reason I did was because when I brought up the multiple meanings of fiction, and how that can lead to equivocation, you challenged the idea that my meanings were accurate. So I thought bringing in dictionary definitions would be helpful (especially since you also challenged my understanding of equivocation). I hate prescriptive uses of language in debates, and I hate when people do something like break down a term like RPG into its individual parts and argue from the definitions of those parts. But if someone says to me that my use of a word is incorrect, wouldn't that be the time to bring in the dictionary? [/QUOTE]

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