[ SECRET POST #2756 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2756 ⌋

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Comments

Re: But what are the other tags on those fics?

[nyxelestia]

Out of curiosity, is this quoting something? It's kind of hard to understand and I'm still not sure if I'm parsing the meaning right, so some context would be helpful.

Re: But what are the other tags on those fics?

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

Nah, I just made a few comments along those lines as an exercise in taking the "but words/language evolve and only have the meaning we give them" line of reasoning to the point of absurdity. I replaced words with synonyms, antonyms, or just similar ideas, and switched articles and pronouns around.

The basic gist of my comment to you was that I agree that meaning can change depending on context, but context isn't helpful if a word is being used in a way that's completely unfamiliar. An incorrect tag in a sea of correct ones will come across as nonsensical or misleading if no (or very few) readers have ever seen it used that way before.

Re: But what are the other tags on those fics?

[nyxelestia]

True, but mistagging is kind of a separate problem from overtagging. If I see a fluff tag in a sea of tags that indicate non-fluff story elements, I will assume that they are all in the story - and thus, none of them accurately indicate the nature of the story at large, but merely scenes/content within the story.

Now, if someone tried to tag their story with fluff fic instead of just fluff as one of many content tags, then that's different - fluff fic implies super-happy story with limited complexity or character development, and to apply that to complicated story is less "covering all bases" and more "outright misleading, whether it's intended or not".

Definitely love how you made your point, though - for a second I thought I was reading Shakespearean quotes or something, which in itself is an example of why hardline descriptivism isn't the best way to go, either. Technically, Shakespearean English is just as Modern English as whatever we spew out on the Internet. But it's so different and difficult to understand that many people genuinely assume it's Middle or Old English, which are actually separate - if preceding - languages from Modern English.