Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-69.169.149.237-20140108093910/@comment-3250527-20140809063839

69.204.51.67 wrote: ...you were using text as your primary basis, and trying to deduce their size from written descriptions...

Yes, I was using the text as my primary means? It is the main backing to my statement, which I will explain...

After I refute one more quote.

69.204.51.67 wrote: '''[Written descriptions] don't even give exact measurements to begin with. You can't measure text descriptions.'''

Oh, yes I can measure a text description. One hundred and twenty centimeters. Measure that.

I did not look for anything aside from the concrete "one", "two", "three", and so on. I gave my source from this one concrete number.

I'll give you the Japanese Text. This excerpt sentence is the third column from the right.

Volume 9 Page 400

If you still refuse to accept "1 meter and 20 centimeters" (the direct translation as from the text), be my guest and buy Alicization Beginning. Go to Page 400, third column from the right. Translate it yourself. It's right there, "one meter and twenty centimeters".

69.204.51.67 wrote: Ever hear the saying, "A picture says a thousand words"?

Of course I have. But where do the pictures come from? The descriptions. You cannot make a picture without the descriptions. How did the the SAO anime come to be? It was adapted from the light novels, from text.

69.204.51.67 wrote: And the orthographic pictures of the two swords in the Kirigaya Kirito LN are not to scale with the main drawing, so they're no help in determining exact length.

Did not even glance at them. Even I knew they were too short for Kirito's height in that picture.

69.204.51.67 wrote: So, no matter how you look at it, we have a 12" long hilt and a 48" long sword.

So all I have to do is not look at it. I only have to read it.

Addendum:

However, I refuse to continue with this debate. No matter my efforts, I will only encounter refutes from the same one source: the anime. One can enjoy the story of SAO through a more muted (albeit less thrilling) experience. Based on this debate, I can see you are strongly attached to the SAO anime adaption, and you can see that I am in favor of the light novel.

But, a debate is a debate, a means of persuading another party through intelligent discussion; this discussion about the "yes or no" to Elucidator, etc. being a 48" long sword. I learned much from this discussion, and that I exclude many different variables in my proofs. I have tested your proof, meeting appropriate criteria, and found fallacies. You found fallacies in my proof, thus my exclusion of the perspective effect.

However, I have grown weary of this discussion and do not wish to put forth any more proof. Call me cowardly, but if you wish to continue, my stance is still upon the word of Reki Kawahara.

Kawahara Reki wrote: ...one meter and twenty centimeters (一メートルと二十センチ)...