| perpride said: AHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH AHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHAH AHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA AHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA LOL. You can go ahead and start using GOW for Gears. It's your human right. However, that will NEVER, EVER make it so. Both are amazing games. Both are universally acclaimed. Gears will always be GeOW. GOW3 will pwn! |
Careful, you might blow a gasket.
But seriously now, speaking seriously.
People, language as a construct is generally accepted as a medium for communication, right? I mean, that's what it is by definition. We communicate ideas using words and word forms which symbolize certain meanings. When we speak the same language, we have an inferred agreement that certain words (or word forms, or phrases) are possessed of certain meanings symbolizing certain things. We are making sounds at each other in hopes of communicating complex ideas.
People are often under the impression that a language is a static thing in which the meaning of a wod is defined by its pre-existing meaning, like what is in the dictionary. But that isn't true. Words are defined by usage. That is why the dictionary is always changing.
If GoW ends up being used more to refer to Gears of War than God of War, then that is what GoW will have come ot mean, whether or not it originally meant God of War. That's the nature of language. The fact that one meaning was pre-existent in comparison to the other has no bearing on anything.
The arguments aren't going to change this. The usage is.
