Your previous rhetoric doesn’t seem to match the tone you’re embracing now.

You’re right, I let my emotions carry me away. I’ll try to be nicer in the future…I’m especially embarrassed by #10, “frak”, not only is it a substitution for language I have long since forsaken, but it is also from a Sci-Fi TV show….

Your previous rhetoric doesn’t seem to match the tone you’re embracing now. I refer you to:

9: before anyone gets as a giddy as a schoolgirl about the potential for another Bush Administration snafu

10: only those who believe such things would consider that I was calling such things “self defense”

16: What the frak are you smoking today?

22: I don’t know what to say, except my statement is perfectly clear and makes absolute sense and I am absolutely stunned at the length you’re going to stick to a “I’m never wrong” policy.

If you taunt me and insult me, then don’t come complaining about my hobnailed boots later.

And I will be personally obliged if you will drop the “could it be that I just am more forgiving” line of attack.

I’m not sure what else I’m supposed to do to catch your attention, or to try and reach you.

Well, if you can suffer me, perhaps bold italics next time you try one of these exercises.

Logical meaning

Add logical meaning to the list as well. Basically, if I find examples of such things, can I point them out without retribution and if I turn out to be wrong, how about only a light whipping instead of a brutal scourging? I want to do better, to make myself strive to the level that it takes around here to be considered *more than just barely literate*.

Also, I am going to kindly ask that, if and that is a big *if* I find any grammatical problems with any of your comments, that I hope that I could point them out without incurring any wrath. Just as an exercise in reciprocity.

don’t be deliberately dense. this wasn’t about grammar. it was about the logical meaning of a loose statement by you. Logical meaning. Not grammar.

I wasn’t paying attention close enough to the fact that you changed a key word

It didn’t need close attention. I put those words in italics in 8. I put them in italics again in 18, when I spelled out the whole thing in little baby steps.

I’m not sure what else I’m supposed to do to catch your attention, or to try and reach you.

but in the end, you are still borderline illiterate.

lol, ok…I don’t know howcome I got this far wit out ya. I’m gonna quit my job program’n these here computational contraptions and go polish rocks from now on, thanks for the revelation….

Illiterate by your standards, perhaps, but most people don’t live by bullet proof blog comments as a standard. I am guilty of using poor conversational language (as stated many a times before, I’m not an English major nor write much English, C# yes, English, not so much) in my commenting, I will try to do better by gollie.

Also, I am going to kindly ask that, if and that is a big *if* I find any grammatical problems with any of your comments, that I hope that I could point them out without incurring any wrath. Just as an exercise in reciprocity.

One last thought, and no disrespect intended but could it be that I just am more forgiving and naively believe the same will be returned? Even hoping beyond hope, disregarding of past experiences here, that by chance, hearts will be softened?

and then Matt acknowledged that he initially thought he knew what I meant until you tried to “clarify” during and after which I clearly read right over that subtle change.

don’t play games. the point remains that you can’t accurately express yourself. that i was fooled is a problem for me, but in the end, you are still borderline illiterate.

It really doesn’t appear from the exchange that you were trying to understand what I said, or even listening. You were too busy dismissing it out of hand.

You’re correct. I wasn’t paying attention close enough to the fact that you changed a key word which logically is correct but you acknowledged that you (#30), and then Matt acknowledged that he initially thought he knew what I meant until you tried to “clarify” during and after which I clearly read right over that subtle change.

But I don’t know what I’m hoping for so I will just have to try harder and read closer to every jot and every tittle.

Means if you knew what I meant, why frustrate the situation with the during and before bit.

I can only refer you to Matt’s 40, and maybe 47 (but not with any real hope that you’ll get it now, if you didn’t get it before).

I wasn’t trying to frustrate the situation, I was only trying to point out that what you said meant something very different from what you thought it did.

It really doesn’t appear from the exchange that you were trying to understand what I said, or even listening. You were too busy dismissing it out of hand.

Any frustration you felt, you created for yourself, I’m afraid.

here we go again: What on earth does “I could ask for a little more … discernment” mean?

Means if you knew what I meant, why frustrate the situation with the during and before bit. And if that truly was an issue that needed to be clearer, there are much better ways to achieve that. I didn’t pick up on the during and before bit from 8 and I think after my first response to that in 10 clearly showed I didn’t pickup on the word play, and comment 11 only furthered my confusion as to what you were actually critiquing.