(09-21-2015, 04:06 PM)Flickering Ember Wrote: TL;DR: It's not a big deal unless you make it one. Also I have never played or seen 'tense gymnastics' and have only seen 'would' be used like 3 times in the past 6 months.I think the only deal here is the idea that if you don't use "would" you are not being interactive enough. I actually found the conversation really educational. I did not understand the purpose or origin of the style before, and always thought it was just done in an effort to sound fancy. I'm happy to know that it has, at its root, an effort to be polite. I still don't care for it, but its never effected my roleplay and never will. I just don't care for this effort to try to dig down and claim that not following a particular style indicates that you are not willing to allow as much interaction and so on. That all depends on the RPer herself not on her style of writing.
Edit: I also understand that some actions warrant very clearly being spelled out as intent rather than result, and agree that this is an effective style for presenting that sense of things, but it is hardly exclusively so :-X
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