In retrospect, with the added context, I can see what you originally meant. But without it, your post very much was just another person using the word as though it was fine to say and weird that people wouldn’t say it. And with it being at -5 when I posted, I wasn’t the only one that read it that way. You even felt you needed to correct it after I left.
His question wouldn’t make sense if you didn’t edit your post, though. As my post would have referred to your first sentence absent the second. And you’ll notice everyone read your post the way I did before you edited it. When I came along, you had -5. The only reason mine seems like a weird response now is because I responded to what was effectively a completely different post, even if the original post is still in there.
You were correct to edit your post. I don’t want to edit mine, but I will add context.
“You” knew what your original post was supposed to mean. But if every other viewer saw it as meaning what was written instead and you had to turn it around, are all of us readers really the ones in the wrong?
I’m not hoping the person from 4 chan is also in here, just giving general advice for anyone reading it now.
The post was edited since that reply, not alot of people go back and check if that happened.
They edited their post to be completely different from when I replied. I haven’t been back since. Everyone else that replied before the edit doesn’t make sense anymore either.
Kind of sucks that can happen, maybe we should be notified when something we replied to is edited.
One way to understand them better is to occasionally talk. Cuz like, guys and girls are actually incredibly similar. A couple of conversations a day, with the occasional really good conversation, can go a very long way towards understanding each other. Everything you don’t talk about is one more thing you won’t understand.
It’s described in the article, got to it from one of the other links on lemmy. It’s the older tower of terror smaller carnival rides. The ones that are like 20-40 seats around a central pole and the seats alternate between going up and down the pole at as rapid a pace as that much weight can be cheaply moved.
The video in question is about someone falling off of it.
And indeed using the term engine retarding brake is still totally valid in that same context. You’re trying to apply one situation to the context of a different situation.
And when it comes to the word fat, let people around you know you are ok with it. But don’t just use it around everyone else assuming they are similarly ok with it. Unless you are ok with people using the word jerk or asshole around you. You don’t get to have it both ways.
Clinical terms will constantly shift to more neutral terms any time the current term has taken on more weight than it was intended to have. It can take a bit for the new neutral word to propagate, but it will come around sooner or later. Eventually, the stink of an old term will die down enough that it can come back into medical use.
When dealing with an individual you know well, behaving how they want you to behave… you are doing it right. When you assume everyone feels the same way and are wrong if they don’t, you are doing it wrong.
I advocate more for what they do to the person who uses them. If people tell you they are hurt by your actions, and your response is to say they are wrong to feel that way and you keep doing it, who does that make you?
Yes, it is… stop.
So, you advocate for a generous reading of peoples posts. But, despite knowing what your original post contained, took me at my direct word instead of what I clearly meant… weird, why would someone do that? You knew I meant paragraph, and yet assumed malicious intent. While saying people shouldn’t do that…
And in your case it should have been even clearer I wrote the wrong word to convey my intended meaning.