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Originally Posted by DonRotolo
Just shows what an expressive language we have. It is difficult at time to be as precise as you need to be.
Yes, we all agree that we know what the GDC meant, but it's not what they wrote, and until they fix their language we have to go with the literal interpretation of what is written (which is the definition of "Lawyering the rules").
I'll recommend to Bill Miller that they bring an accomplished college professor of English onto the GDC.  |
One of my hats is 'novelist', and I used to do some technical writing both for game companies and for microchip manufacturers. The technical writing for the game companies was by far the hardest when it came to specificity!