Man, take a nap on it and look at this conversation with fresh eyes, would you? If you still want to have a fight about something, awesome: contact me directly, we'll pick a topic and agree on a set of rules and go at it.
Alternatively, if you just NEED to have the last word, go ahead; I don't care about "winning" so much as I care about "making our world more pleasant".
One of my husbands is a professional AI programmer, and the other is a software tester, and both are considered highly expert in their respective professions by large chunks of the industry; I know how to phrase things for coder consumption. I could have improved my statement a tad by using "parse" instead of "understand" -- but as a man who stood upon his dignity over the phrase "tech savvy", especially in terms of "I code html by hand and I run the website", you are implicitly setting the conversation onto a computer geek basis of thought and comprehension. A person who grokks computer code is a person who processes concepts in terms of definition and function.
Pronouns refer to the most recently mentioned applicable noun(s). This isn't "formal English", this is kindergarten English. Persons who learn English as a non-native language are MORE likely to understand the textbook version of the written language than they are the colloquial versions; your suggestion is not relevant to the topic of you getting crankypants over your own failure to succeed in a Reading Comprehension Skill Check, much less to the OP topic of "has anyone seen the schedule yet?"
Nor is your general Intertubes Rage entirely relevant to "has anyone seen the schedule yet?". You were doing good on the statement that you haven't seen it but thought you'd seen a Tweet that it'd be out today, only you couldn't find it; you might've been okay with slight frothing at the keyboard over your personal trouble finding it at all before con started last year, but you set the connotative levels of scorn in your word choices to eleven.
Have I seen the schedule yet? No. Are you making anything better for anybody by kvetching at the the web staff (in absentia, no less!) because you, personally, can't find the schedule in one click? No. Are you helping Straya solve her quest for intel? No. Are you making yourself feel any better by getting picking out something I wrote in a post that starts with the assumption "Joreth has pointed out a problem", tests it, and finds it to not prove true?
If yes, then I refer back to my closing statement in the previous post: Have a fun link (http://www.crankypantshome.com/), and I hope your weekend goes better than today did!
You sure remind me of my baby brother. He's a tad bit older than you. Very smart guy, but so quick to jump to angry conclusions! And always shocked when I really DO decide to get antagonistic, instead of carefully pointing out independent facts and alternative viewpoints.
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Cranky Pants are a bit Off Topic.
Date: 2009-07-17 03:10 am (UTC)Alternatively, if you just NEED to have the last word, go ahead; I don't care about "winning" so much as I care about "making our world more pleasant".
One of my husbands is a professional AI programmer, and the other is a software tester, and both are considered highly expert in their respective professions by large chunks of the industry; I know how to phrase things for coder consumption. I could have improved my statement a tad by using "parse" instead of "understand" -- but as a man who stood upon his dignity over the phrase "tech savvy", especially in terms of "I code html by hand and I run the website", you are implicitly setting the conversation onto a computer geek basis of thought and comprehension. A person who grokks computer code is a person who processes concepts in terms of definition and function.
Pronouns refer to the most recently mentioned applicable noun(s). This isn't "formal English", this is kindergarten English. Persons who learn English as a non-native language are MORE likely to understand the textbook version of the written language than they are the colloquial versions; your suggestion is not relevant to the topic of you getting crankypants over your own failure to succeed in a Reading Comprehension Skill Check, much less to the OP topic of "has anyone seen the schedule yet?"
Nor is your general Intertubes Rage entirely relevant to "has anyone seen the schedule yet?". You were doing good on the statement that you haven't seen it but thought you'd seen a Tweet that it'd be out today, only you couldn't find it; you might've been okay with slight frothing at the keyboard over your personal trouble finding it at all before con started last year, but you set the connotative levels of scorn in your word choices to eleven.
Have I seen the schedule yet? No. Are you making anything better for anybody by kvetching at the the web staff (in absentia, no less!) because you, personally, can't find the schedule in one click? No. Are you helping Straya solve her quest for intel? No. Are you making yourself feel any better by getting picking out something I wrote in a post that starts with the assumption "Joreth has pointed out a problem", tests it, and finds it to not prove true?
If yes, then I refer back to my closing statement in the previous post: Have a fun link (http://www.crankypantshome.com/), and I hope your weekend goes better than today did!
You sure remind me of my baby brother. He's a tad bit older than you. Very smart guy, but so quick to jump to angry conclusions! And always shocked when I really DO decide to get antagonistic, instead of carefully pointing out independent facts and alternative viewpoints.