Vaderisnothayden said:
It gets soooo frustrating when somebody point blank refuses to understand something that's been explained to them.

No kidding!

For anybody else following this discussion who is still uncertain as to whether they are allowed to interpret words for themselves or not, let me set the record strait from an academic perspective.

word noun (which means it is a person, a place, or a thing. In this case, it is a thing)

"a meaningful sound or combination of sounds that is a unit of language or its representation in a text"

Once words are open for personal interpretation, they cease to be meaningful units of language, and become rather useless.

Of course, another school of thought (seemingly) would say that the definition of "word" that I posted above is pointless, as that it is merely one interpretation of what a word is.