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Virtual worlds are a class of computer game in which large numbers of players access a shared environment simultaneously to have fun. What “having fun” means, however, is not obvious. Players talk about immersion, which suggests to some commentators that their fun may derive from the well-known psychological concepts of presence and flow. However, although these states of mind are indeed import...

Predicates of taste (e.g. fun), as well as interjections (e.g. wow), form a class of inherently subjective expression-types, consequently resisting straightforward treatment within truth-conditional semantics. While subjective expression-types semantically require an experiencer-argument, because that argument can potentially be set to anyone at all semanticists seem unable to explain how its v...