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All Done, Gabbi, Kath and anyone

Posted by 10derHeart on February 5, 2007, at 10:37:04

In reply to Re: Maybe I can help? » Kath, posted by All Done on February 4, 2007, at 0:55:51

Thanks, Laurie, I thought that was great. (Not that my opinion carries all that much weight....I'm still learning, too)

What helps me with part of that, is to try to remember to notice the pronouns used...like the "it" in this case, which just stands in for "your post." Sometimes it's easy to not notice what's being described with "it", "them", "they" and so on.

I guess maybe that phrase "I found" is a tough one to work with here, well, at least for me. It can be taken too many ways that might seem uncivil to some (eg, "I thought it was...," or "My opinion of XXXX is that XXXX is maddening") But gabbi, I get your point as well, I really do. It can be an awfully fine line and hard distinction, absolutely, and frustrating particularly because you can 100% know your own intent (to express your feelings only), whereas no one else really can, we can only guess, infer, assume....and then things get really messy.....so the stricter application of the rules is sort of in place to avoid the messiness - and sometimes impossible to resolve discussions of what people intended to say - in the first place? Does that make any sense?

 

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