by Guest » Tue Apr 22, 2014 11:28 pm
Oldrac the Chitinous wrote:But I was saying you're not being an insufferable pedant, and you had a reasonable complaint!
That's, like, the nicest thing I can imagine myself saying to a new poster.
Technically you didn't say he wasn't being an insufferable pedant. You simply implied that you would not be getting on his case about it in this instance. That said, I can't fathom why he would take offense, when you essentially agreed with him.
[quote="Oldrac the Chitinous"]But I was saying you're [i]not[/i] being an insufferable pedant, and you had a reasonable complaint!
That's, like, the nicest thing I can imagine myself saying to a new poster.[/quote]
Technically you didn't say he wasn't being an insufferable pedant. You simply implied that you would not be getting on his case about it in this instance. That said, I can't fathom why he would take offense, when you essentially agreed with him.