Board Thread:Skyrim/@comment-12599067-20130928060857/@comment-24590102-20140227101029

Natalie-gra-Canada, the point of precise diction is to obviate interpretation. Expression which is dictionally unambiguous requires no explanation because it can be understood - which is the whole point of communication. Moreover, the statement that "There is no such thing as right to rule" cannot be interpreted reliably based on context without some semantic clarification. While this statement is true of moral rights, it is contradicted by many historical examples whereby rule is enforced, rightly or wrongly, as a legal right. If we leave the statement open to interpretation, this can lead to disagreements based on misunderstanding. There are similar issues with the word, "indigenous" which has a root usage and a strictly political usage which contradicts the root usage. Languages don't just evolve and grow. Without a standards-based approach, degrade and disintigrate into hundreds of dialects - just as Latin did due to the fact that Latin speakers in the Dark Ages didn't exactly have very much access to dictionaries or type examples. Dare I suggest that the only place where Latin survived to the present day was in mostly monastic cultures which were immersed in type exmaples of the original Latin language. The "moral of the story", to rip off dozens of mid 20th century film producers, is that language degrades quite rapidly in the absence of dictionary use.