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by colechristensen
61 days ago
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You're still doing it. Now with "definition" vs. "a different understanding or expectation of" You are not understanding, perhaps willfully, what people are writing and muddying the waters by trying to make unimportant distinctions about words instead of engaging with the meaning as intended by the author. Every one of your clarifications has just been a pedantic restatement of what someone else clearly meant using different words trying to make a distinction which is not at all necessary to make. |
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Clearly I am not understanding your perspective on this topic.
> ... perhaps willfully, ...
Not at all and something I had hoped to communicate by a detailed analysis of the thread thus far.
> ... what people are writing and muddying the waters by trying to make unimportant distinctions about words instead of engaging with the meaning as intended by the author.
Words have meaning and I chose mine carefully. There is no such thing as "unimportant distinctions about words" if the words used have differing meanings and can reasonably be interpreted as conveying different thoughts.
> Every one of your clarifications has just been a pedantic restatement ...
This is one way to categorize my communication in this thread. Another way would be to say we disagree and perhaps have talked past each other.
I guess I still need to improve my listening skills. Perhaps you need to as well.