On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 23:53, Randal L. Schwartz <mer...@stonehenge.com> wrote:
>>>>>> "Raymond" == Raymond Wan <r....@aist.go.jp> writes:
>
> Raymond> But, if both sides (both of you) and third-party-people like me still
> Raymond> remember exchanges on this list from almost 2 years ago,
>
> I didn't remember it at all. I had to google for my name and his. I
Fair enough -- I stand corrected. :-) Definitely underestimated the
ability of Google. ;-)
> But it's why I wrote the response as I did. I said "here are the
> preconditions, and if this is all true, then you are lying". What he
> fails to understand (and I wish he would) is that the preconditions
> didn't apply, and therefore "you are lying" doesn't apply to him. He
> failed to read the whole letter. He failed to understand that the last
> few paragraphs clearly didn't apply to him.
Well, I think it's safe to say that there are certain words that have
a good chance of being misinterpretted and "lying" is perhaps one of
them, especially if the reader cannot see the word "I" before and a
smiley face afterwards... By this I mean that if it's reached a level
where it is preceeded by "you", it is hard to expect anyone to see the
entire context clearly anymore. For better or for worse, I'd probably
be the same...
> And now I've burned another hour on this issue, when I could have been
> productively helping other people. {sigh} That's the *real* cost of
> this.
Well, IMHO, spending an hour to reflect on what was said to someone is
never a waste of time...
Ray
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