the other day someone tried to tell us that the swordbreaker, as in the really weird renaissance dagger designed to entrap and control an opponent's blade, was "technically called a jitte" and got _really mad_ when we pointed out that a jitte is an entirely different weapon from an entirely different tradition and i'm still kind of just baffled by that
speculating on motives re: incorrect weapon terminology
@Felthry was it a "I'm trying to be impressive and you are undermining that by contradicting me" thing, maybe? putting higher weight on how a conversation makes them feel than on how a conversation functions is definitely a phenomenon that happens and can be super frustrating
re: speculating on motives re: incorrect weapon terminology
@Felthry ugggh - yeah, that seems like a related phenomenon
attributing self-aggrandizing motives to you, as opposed to (or in addition to) pursuing self-aggrandizement
that sounds super frustrating - sympathies
re: speculating on motives re: incorrect weapon terminology
@packbat this is someone, also, who has a habit of saying wrong things like that as though they were fact and Taking It Very Personally Or Something when someone points out the mistake, which means we get into minor arguments rather frequently