Talk:Stability/@comment-24634511-20150801182553/@comment-1893895-20160213090035

It's a common translation problem. Since language meanings are largely arbitrary and meaningless without context (according to language symbol theory, i.e. the reason we don't naturally understand foreign languages), this is typically what happens when someone translates "in a void" or without proper contextual knowledge, whether due to the translator's professional negligence/ignorance, or insufficient help/info from the person tasking the translation, or perhaps due to time/budget/communication problems.

Ideally the translator also plays the game since that's the best context they could have, but without context they have to make a best guess. It seems to happen most often in RPG games with item or skill descriptions -- often the descriptions will be "ballpark correct" in that they're kind of correct, but get the exact details wrong. Like, Stability does protect against wind, but only from monsters, and Toxicity does improve poison lethality, but not the damage like it says.

For a more real-world example, everyone has probably had times when they've had a conversation with someone, and while you understand every individual word they say, without context, you have no idea what they're talking about -- or perhaps if you walk in part-way on a conversation and it sounds like they're talking about something sketchy.

... in case you really wanted to know about translation.