Posted by kid_A on August 4, 2002, at 15:33:34
In reply to Re: I don't feel snarked on, you're right kid_A, posted by Gabbi on August 4, 2002, at 15:11:08
> ...saying intelligence caring has disappeared, doesn't really leave room for any implied exception. Disappear is an absolute. Its not like saying I miss the way things used to be.
Well, would it help if the poster then later stated that prehaps she had been a bit caustic, and in such cases it would be best not to take such posts so personally, and then make the mistake of taking it one step futher by asuming the mode of the defender, when there is nothing to defend. even though in this particular medium of comminication, all the barbs may not be folded down when the period stops.
> Perhaps I'm splitting hairs, but I can understand why people got hurt.
I understand too, when no exceptions are implied, or perhaps some hyperbole is applied, it may be easy to feel as if the text was indeed naming names, though in truth it was not.
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