(May 31, 2013 at 2:21 pm)ideologue08 Wrote: That might be true, but that doesn't mean it wasn't expressed sufficiently clear, which is to say the blame does not lie on me for any misinterpretation.
Clearly you don't subscribe to it, but there is a common conception that failures in verbal communication are the result of the speaker not considering how to best communicate his ideas to his target audience.
In any case, I have no intention of getting into a debate over this. I merely wanted to point out that your meaning was not as clear as you indicated you thought it was.