On 02/16/11 10:29 PM, MZMcBride wrote:
If criticism is unduly harsh in your opinion, you should say so to the people doing the criticizing as it happens (privately or publicly). Nobody's perfect; sometimes people are too harsh. And sometimes text is just mis-read or mis-phrased. That's the nature of text-based communication, or any communication, really.
Any two of us can use the same word differently. It's the responsibility of a good-faith reader to assume the more benign of two possibilities. We can't afford to be too easily offended by an unfortunate choice of words.
Ec