From: Kevin Maroney (kjm@panix.com)
Date: Tue 08 Feb 1994 - 19:37:54 EET
> IMO, 2 native speakers of the same language and dialect talking to each
>other have a 95% chance of successful communication. This is modelled
>reasonably well by both having 50% skills (and adding them) with the 96-00
>auto-failure.
> The RQ3 rule implies that 40% of the time an average person does not
>understand what they are hearing; this is just wrong - (radio) news
>bulletins etc would be useless if this were so.
> ...........................Malcolm Cohen, NAG Ltd., Oxford, U.K.
Two people having a normal, unexcited, leisurely conversation wouldn't
have to roll to understand each other, any more than you have to roll for
Dagger skill if you try to cut open a melon. You only roll if there is a
strong possibility for misunderstanding and circumstances that would
prevent the characters from trying again and again to get their meaning
across--say, a publishing deadline.
Kevin J. Maroney|kjm@panix.com|Proud to be a Maroney|Proud to be a Yonker
Barney delenda est.
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