(sigh) My post had been meant as a joke, with a refence to a series
of fun, if not terribly deep, books by Harry Turtledove, but your
response turned it into something else entirely.
This post shows you expect a kind of generosity, that we would
know what you meant to say even when your choice of words might
mean something else, and that we would change them to reflect that.
You do not deserve this generosity. This kind of generosity
requires that there be a light-hearted rapport and mutual
respect in the dialogue, which you do not promote. For example,
with the very post that you demand I edit your words for you as
I read them, you insult me by implying that I'm too dumb to have
known you meant "filmed." These are not the actions of someone
interested in providing the netiquette that they expect of
others.
-- Matt Grimaldi
<sigh> I got the joke. Fine. I thought "everyone" would know what I
meant. I shouldn't have written "anyone." Your post shows that you expect
a kind of generosity - that you won't be taken for a penny ante nitpicker
trying to disrupt discussions. You do not deserve this generosity. That
kind of generosity requires that there be a certain willingness to accept
that posts might be poorly phrased and mutual allowance for these things,
which you do not promote. For example, with this very post you demand that
I interpret your ambiguous statements correctly while insulting me by
stating that I don't deserve a fair reading. These are not the actions of
someone interested in providing the netiquette that they expect of others.
I can play "oversensitive" too. Want to keep going?
Gautam
