Re: Great SWT Program

In article <1187965021.250764.44160@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Twisted <twisted0n3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Aug 24, 6:14 am, blm...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <blm...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[snip assorted stuff, including insidious suggestion that something
insulting might be true, or honestly perceived as true without malice
aforethought]

Insidious? Yeah, whatever. Just for the record, here's what
I said:

As best I can tell, you regard "you are wrong" as an insult, and
claim that anyone who says this to you is motivated by malice.

I don't think anyone would deny that "you are wrong" is negative
in some sense, but I also don't think many people regard it as
an insult. So someone saying "you are wrong" may be motivated by
a desire to express the truth as he/she views it, and genuinely
unaware that you will perceive this as an insult.

And in general, something insulting *MIGHT* be true. Well, unless
it applies to you, of course. Hm, to add a :-) or not ....

[ snip]

I dunno. You seem to have a fairly unusual take on human
interaction

I suppose I do, in that I am evidently far more logical than most
others I routinely encounter.

To use another pop-culture catchphrase (which I may be getting
wrong, since I'm getting it secondhand at best): How's that
working for you? Does it help you accurately predict the
behavior of others?

Further, I wouldn't assume that if someone says "I really like
Microsoft Word" it means he/she thinks OpenOffice is junk;
maybe it means he/she has tried them both, found something to
like about each of them, but in the end found more to like
about Word.

Then there's a padded cell somewhere with their name on it. :P

As I said -- hard to imagine. (Why did you snip that out of
the quoted text? It was on the same line as "about Word", and
removing it makes me look like someone who likes Word, which
I most emphatically am not.)

[ snip most of long digression ]

And where did *that* come from .... <shrug>

My comment referred specifically to the paragraph I *did*
quote, not to the part I snipped. That's not apparent from
your selective quoting. And I suppose you only bother with "[
snip ]" when you want to summarize, in your, um, distinctive?
way, the snipped content.

[ snip ]



But as someone else said in another thread -- there is a lot
of off-topic stuff in this group lately, and this is surely
in that category. So -- sorry about that, folks, and I'll try
to shut up now.

--
B. L. Massingill
ObDisclaimer: I don't speak for my employers; they return the favor.
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