A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
I'm assuming the brackets go before the "ripping the new asshole" part, and not that you've never seen me take a deep breath first.I'm assuming this because I have some knowledge of you through extended interaction.
If I stripped that subtext out, I'd be left with a sentence that'd make me angry.
Which makes me think it's not a detoning-is-good thing, is it? It's an "benefit of the doubt" thing.
Ooops. Yes, misplaced parenthesis. And, yes, 'benefit of the doubt' and 'asking for clarification' instead of just assuming that your interpretation of tone is correct and asking upon it.
But I'd like to think that you'd have given the benefit of this particular doubt to a new poster as well.
You can't convey tone by an overt statement indicating that is the tone in which your words should be understood.
You can't explain what you mean by explaining what you meant!
Sometimes you can and sometimes you can't. If I say to someone, "I don't mean this to sound confrontational but I think you're an asshole," that doesn't mean I'm not being confrontational. I'm being pretty confrontational. I'm just doing it in a passive-agressive manner.
Also, I heart Matt. What he said. And hey, Matt, do you know what that song was with the chick singing after Buffy sent Angle to hell? </old times' sake>
For my own mental picture, what is the appropriate pronoun for you?
I kind of like being called 'muffin'. But that's a religious god complex thing..... long story.
Anyway, my wife calls me 'him' a lot. She speak the english good. ;)
tone is in the eye of the beholder, and should be in control of the poster.
Wait a sec, Shawn, are you saying that the poster is responsible for how other people react to the post?
Because it's amazing how often I'm surprised at how completely differently I read a post than do others. And I'm also very surprised by the many and different things people are offended by.
Unless someone is deliberately being insulting, there is just so much room for interpretation.
Let's agree to disagree.
And in hindsight I'm thinking tone should have been called "Point of View". Of which we have many.
FECK! ARSE!
Are you implying something because of your deliberate dropping of 'girls!' ?
