Re: [Open_Gaming] Consolidated Remarks

[Will Hindmarch]

Nicholas H.M. Caldwell wrote:

> On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Will Hindmarch wrote:
> >
> >     There is a slight, but important, matter of grammar here. "Compelled"
> > suggests that the person being "compelled" is somewhat (or completely) unwilling.
> > I think that's the interpretation you're using. If so, I agree with you.
>
> Actually it's a matter of semantics (;-)), but I *do* mean "compelled" as
> in "forced" or "coerced" by the activities of "wrathful nimrods".

    Fair enough. : )  I should have said "language," or even better "dialectics."
"Compelled" does not mean the same thing in English (the trunk of the language tree) as
it does in, say, court. The implications are different.
    Sigh. Semantics.


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