You know, I almost didn't respond. You've brought our otherwise respectable debate down into the realms of thinly veiled personal attacks. Furthermore, you failed to address my most poignant rebuttals. Good job.
I think it's only fair that I try to clear things up. The old me would have ripped you a new one, but I'll hold back, for now. After all, I think you're under the impression that you're helping me somehow. At least, that's what it looks like on the surface, and I don't want to make assumptions, so I'll leave it at that.
Originally Posted by Posquant
I wasn't asking you to be sure of your thoughts. I asked you to be sure you were thinking about what was proposed.
Talk about semantics. It's impossible for me to be sure of my thoughts until I've carefully considered every conceivable avenue regarding the subject matter. I thought extensively about what was proposed and presented the basics of my conclusions in previous posts.
Originally Posted by Posquant
Patience is a virtue.
I don't think I've ever heard that one before. Thank you for enlightening me.
Originally Posted by Posquant
Please re-read what you wrote. You need proof that you're not sure of your thoughts? The guy said he saw the math. He didn't "do" it. You misquoted. Try using "quotation marks."
Talk about a misquote. Hell, a quick search will find I never once used the word "do" in my previous post. Unless you're talking about: "You had a dream where you were doing Math you didn't understand and that probably doesn't exist." In which case I cite the OP: "Then I suddenly sat up in my bed with my eyes wide open and I was doing math equations I don't know in real life, as a matter of fact I'm terrible at math."
Also, a brief review of my post will show I did use quotation marks, when appropriate. But if you need more proof of my ability to use quotations, I just reiterated the point in the above paragraph. Right now, it's hard for me to believe you actually read what I wrote in the first place, let alone the OP.
Originally Posted by Posquant
Maybe your writing, syntax, grammar needs work. Writing is a strange thing. Requires iteration, much patience, self questioning. Personally, I usually find I don't really know what I think until I write it out in a way I'd be happy to present for real - to clients, publishers.
Heh, these statements are rife with irony. Way to make my day. I would use an emoticon here, but if my word choice isn't expressing my emotions clearly enough, then my writing does, in fact, need work.
Originally Posted by Posquant
Do you carefully re-read your writing, put yourself in your audience's shoes, before you post?
Yes I do. The tone was intentional; I'm glad it came across the way I meant it to.
Originally Posted by Posquant
Do it a few times. Revise? Try it.
Yeah, as an Enlgish minor, if I didn't already know the basics of the writing process, then I think I'd be in trouble.
Originally Posted by Posquant
I was careful enough to use [brackets]. You were not careful enough to notice.
If you were truly posing questions in those brackets, then a simple check over the OP would have cleared them up. If those were assumptions, then this is the crap I was talking about before. Either way, I saw your brackets, and telling you to pay attention to the information being presented was a perfectly valid response.
Originally Posted by Posquant
Enough.
You couldn't take the time to respond to the important points, eh?
Originally Posted by Posquant
Like what?
Signing forum posts seems odd to me, that's all.
Originally Posted by Posquant
Whatever.
Not my job.
I never said it was. Sign your posts all you want, I was just voicing my opinion on the matter.
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