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Posted by: OrderedComa
Posted by: paulmarv
There is an absolute and objective standard that is the true Halo canon, but it is not always apparent what that is. The more experienced you are with the visible canon, the more easily you will be able to tell between the true Halo canon and what is not canon. (If I elaborated on the latter objects, I'd be subjected to the vitriolic diatribes of relativist thinkers who blindly accept canon as they are told, so I'll withhold those comments in this thread.)
No offense meant at all, Paul, but would it kill you to type up your posts in plain, ordinary English and not legal jargon, I want to understand what you're saying, but I can never truly make heads or tails of it because it's way too hard to understand (and I doubt I'm the only one).
I believe that posts like the one you quoted ought to be typed up in the most understandable and concise mode of the English language possible, and I just don't understand how you think my post used anything other than ordinary English. Please help me understand your accusation. Let's break down my post to see where you could possibly find legal jargon.
There is an absolute and objective standard that is the true Halo canon, but it is not always apparent what that is.
The only words perhaps not known by an average 1st grade student are "absolute", "objective", and "apparent". These words are simple, commonly used in everyday conversational dialogue, and have no more concise or more understandable synonyms that I can think of.
The more experienced you are with the visible canon, the more easily you will be able to tell between the true Halo canon and what is not canon.
This sentence sounds so simple that I would expect to be accused of sounding half-witted than ostentatious. I could have written "The magnitude of one's familiarity with tangible canon is directly proportional to his ability to discern between those true and false canonical statements" and captured the same meaning, but I chose words more general and simple so that more people would be willing to understand what I was trying to say.
(If I elaborated on the latter objects, I'd be subjected to the vitriolic diatribes of relativist thinkers who blindly accept canon as they are told, so I'll withhold those comments in this thread.)
The parentheses imply that the contained words are not essential parts of my post but are a side thought; even still, I would be hard pressed to find words that match the level of contempt Relativists for logical argumentation about this stuff.
On topic...
You say that canon is whatever the writers say. I do not understand how you can entrust your beliefs to the whims of this mysterious group called "the writers". Are they God? I have written this post - am I not a writer? Aren't you a writer? Then are you saying that canon is whatever you want it to be?
You must at some point draw a line, for the sake of naming and words, that defines the identity of a group of things. Halo is certainly the story found in Bungie's Halo Trilogy - you can call Bungie the "writers" of that story if you really want. I suppose it makes no difference. But since you can call whatever you want by whatever name you want, your tolerance of anybody deemed "official" by 343 to inject their personal imagination into what you consider canon eliminates the meaning of the word "Halo" and turns it into a word that refers to a large, incoherent body. I am trying to say that there is a certain body that is the real Halo canon. I might not always be able to say surely what it is; I know for instances that the first three Halo games are part of the true canon, but it isn't always that clear. Point is, we can't just go running out choosing and picking what we feel and think is canon; it is already determined by the original meaning of the word "Halo". Sure, you could call something else "Halo", but it doesn't make the two things the same. See what I'm saying?