Quote Originally Posted by Chrees View Post
I'm pretty sure everyone knew what we meant when we said "wasteland," even if it isn't the dictionary definition of it. But even then, we were just using it as a metaphor. Plus you missed the rest of the definition, which would further enhance the metaphor
No need to get your panties all up in a bunch over technical stuff.

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Quote Originally Posted by Chrees View Post
Plus you missed the rest of the definition
Isn't that "getting caught up over technical stuff"? Also I grew up on a farm, pretty sure Gridania and Black Shroud isn't COMPLETELY worthless for cultivation.

I'm not English native, so no, not "everyone knows what is meant by using a certain term". Maybe people who speak English natively could link it to a metaphor, but nonnatives tend to read the word and context more closely in order to understand and the way I read it, it can't realistically be called a wasteland, but lifeless more than anything, since while there's NPCs and the like, it lacks "life".