> You removed the modifiers when you were paraphrasing.
Because I was talking about the implication itself, not the whole sentence. The implication was clear.
> Obviously to explain was my exact intention, which is why I provided several arguments to your one.
You're convinced of the intent of the original commenter, I have doubts. It's natural that I don't need to provide as many arguments, I just need to justify enough reasonable doubt in your mind as to your assessment of the original comment to make you question whether your approach was appropriate (for whatever level that is for you).
The crux of this is your assessment of the original comment, but you're unwilling to revisit that. I've never experienced what you seem to think was going on here (IIUC, the use of past tense to imply an incorrect status of some project or person for the purpose increasing the estimation of the thing it is actively being compared to). That obviously colors whether I think that's a likely scenario for what we had. When pressed if you have experienced something like this before, or for any justification of why you think this rare (in my estimation) scenario is what we witnessed, you've decided you don't want to continue down that line of inquiry. That's your right, but I don't feel like there's much useful information to mine here with that avenue cut off, as I view it as the most relevant.
> Honestly, I find your first sentence hard to believe.
Yet you keep responding. I'll make it easy for you, since by that statement you've left me to conclude two likely situations. Either you really don't want to be part of this conversation but can't help yourself, or you think I'm not conversing in good conscience and am instead trying to troll you. Neither situation is one in which I feel comfortable continuing, so this will be my last reply in this thread. The best thing I can do to actually communicate my intent is to follow through on my statement that my intent is not to agitate.
Feel free to respond if you like, I'll be notified if you do and will read your response, so you have a chance to express any final thoughts you like on this issue or the conversation in general.
Because I was talking about the implication itself, not the whole sentence. The implication was clear.
> Obviously to explain was my exact intention, which is why I provided several arguments to your one.
You're convinced of the intent of the original commenter, I have doubts. It's natural that I don't need to provide as many arguments, I just need to justify enough reasonable doubt in your mind as to your assessment of the original comment to make you question whether your approach was appropriate (for whatever level that is for you).
The crux of this is your assessment of the original comment, but you're unwilling to revisit that. I've never experienced what you seem to think was going on here (IIUC, the use of past tense to imply an incorrect status of some project or person for the purpose increasing the estimation of the thing it is actively being compared to). That obviously colors whether I think that's a likely scenario for what we had. When pressed if you have experienced something like this before, or for any justification of why you think this rare (in my estimation) scenario is what we witnessed, you've decided you don't want to continue down that line of inquiry. That's your right, but I don't feel like there's much useful information to mine here with that avenue cut off, as I view it as the most relevant.
> Honestly, I find your first sentence hard to believe.
Yet you keep responding. I'll make it easy for you, since by that statement you've left me to conclude two likely situations. Either you really don't want to be part of this conversation but can't help yourself, or you think I'm not conversing in good conscience and am instead trying to troll you. Neither situation is one in which I feel comfortable continuing, so this will be my last reply in this thread. The best thing I can do to actually communicate my intent is to follow through on my statement that my intent is not to agitate.
Feel free to respond if you like, I'll be notified if you do and will read your response, so you have a chance to express any final thoughts you like on this issue or the conversation in general.