Re: Sodding Word

Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I dislike it greatly, but in my line of work it is an inevitability.
Everyone has it, and I will always send files in it (even pictures -
shudder).

Not everyone has it - that's a mistake to assume. You know very well
that it's only available for Macs and Windoze, for starters, and the Mac
version is bloody expensive so few people buy it.

You missed the key line 'in my line of work', and in my line of work
*everyone* has it, without exception, or has access to it.

Bollocks I missed that line: you wrote the paragraph in a fashion which
implied to me that `everyone has it' is a general statement, and not one
that was meant to apply to the `in my line of work' only from the
previous sentence.

Rowland, did you genuinely think Woody meant "everyone in the whole
world has Microsoft Word"?
or that he meant "everyone in the whole world who uses a computer has
Microsoft Word"?
or maybe "everyone in the whole world who uses Mac or Windows has
Microsoft Word"?

If you didn't think the first, then you were already making assumptions
based on what you know about the author, the context, and presumably
dredging some background knowledge from your own memory.

It is incredibly obvious to everyone on the planet (I know because I
asked them), except you, that Woody's use of the word "everyone" related
directly to the previous sentence's phrase "in my line of work". If he
had meant it to be a separate group, I'm quite sure he would have used a
paragraph break to convey that useful piece of information.

I do wonder if you find it so humiliating to be wrong, that when someone
points out that you're wrong, you'll defend your position until black is
white. Or whether you just like to be contrary for the fun of it.
Because I don't believe you're as mistaken as often as you appear to be.

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Pd
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