On 18/05/2008, Mike Godwin <mgodwin(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Thomas writes:
Expressing disagreement with someone involves
saying, in some form or
other "I think you are wrong." That is criticism, and it's of a
person, thus it's personal criticism. Perhaps we're using different
definitions of "criticise"? (In addition to different spellings ;))
I think it's more likely that we're using different definitions of
"personal."
That's entirely possible. I mean "of a person", what do you mean?
If you believe I'm using the wrong definition of
"personal" or
"criticize," please be assured that I don't take it as a personal
criticism.
Well, I would. However, I think you're just using a *different*
definition, not wrong one. I would call that a misunderstanding,
rather than a disagreement.