Will have to read your post later, Hammy - on short leash.
No, I did not respond because I did not know whether your statement stood on its own or required tge wualifucation. This is a problem of forum debates, you can't read the body language or voice tone. It also takes a long time to "read" another person's style nuances. Thus I tend to either react to the statement as-is, un-nuanced, or ask for a qualification.
I am not a mind reader and tend to be a bit of a literalist, iI will mostly take domething written in places like this at face value (unless there is a modifying emoji!) One if tge reasons I usually avoid forum debates unkess I can make a concrete conttibution.
No, I did not respond because I did not know whether your statement stood on its own or required tge wualifucation. This is a problem of forum debates, you can't read the body language or voice tone. It also takes a long time to "read" another person's style nuances. Thus I tend to either react to the statement as-is, un-nuanced, or ask for a qualification.
I am not a mind reader and tend to be a bit of a literalist, iI will mostly take domething written in places like this at face value (unless there is a modifying emoji!) One if tge reasons I usually avoid forum debates unkess I can make a concrete conttibution.