On Wed, Oct 9, 2024 at 3:38 PM Sumant Srivathsan <[email protected]> wrote:

The response from them that I'm trying to avoid is this: "You know what I
> mean, so just respond to that instead of being a dick about how I phrased
> it."
>

Perhaps the way to deal with that is to make this an AND instead of an OR.

One could perhaps answer something like "I work as xyz, and I make
naarthangai oorgai to sell at weekend markets as a hobby" or suchlike.

Conversely, as the asker, one might ask "What do you do, for work and for
fun?"

(which kickstarts another train of thought on how work is assumed to be
"not fun" but that's a separate thread)

Udhay
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