[eyelidlessness]

My point wasn’t that it’s good wording, just that it may be good enough to understand what someone meant to convey. I can be very literal myself, and I can take others’ words overly literally as well. It hasn’t made life better for me to insist on that kind of consistency from others, especially when they know I know what they meant to say. It has helped me to develop some instinct for accepting the intent of people’s communication rather than the minutiae of it. Even when I find the inconsistencies. It’s much nicer to realize what someone meant, and sometimes even to have a small laugh to myself about the way they put it.