(09-21-2015, 11:05 AM)Warren Castille Wrote:(09-21-2015, 10:58 AM)Ignacius Wrote: Yet, according to the sentence, Ignacius only tried to swing at Ziggy's neck; that example leaves no room to not continue doing it. Â That may sound petty to you, someone may say "you know what I meant", but the other person only has to say, "But you didn't write what you mean, then." Â And this is a stranger who, one would think, thinks he has as much right to cut off Ignacius's arm as he does to lose his head. Â In the end, only the wording matters.
I mean, you're perfectly welcome to think of Ziggy what you want for taking the sentence literally as it was written, but truthfully Ziggy has no reason not to and isn't necessarily a bad person for doing so. Â It would be my own fault for writing it so that Ignacius wasn't wary enough to stop swinging at Ziggy's neck when Ziggy's sword came out.
Ziggy sounds like a dick. Anyone looking to hamstring you on your choice of tense or phrasing isn't trying to roleplay with you, they're masturbating over their English textbooks. It's poor etiquette to hold a character accountable for a writer's technical abilities.
I mean, I don't know what to tell you. Â Poor me? Â How do you know Ziggy is a dick? Â For all intents and purposes Ignacius started the fight and with a total stranger. Â He's not a dick for defending himself. Â It's not endemic on him to just say, "Oh, you didn't mean what you typed. Â That's okay. Â I'll let you parry, whoever you are, and you can try to kill me on your next action."
It's not about masturbating over grammer, trying to cut someone's head off is functionally different than swinging at someone with the intent to cut there head off if it's available. Â It implies Ignacius wasn't wary of quick reflexes and reactions. Â It's not Ziggy's job to write Ignacius for me.
