Posted by Neredbojias on 10/25/07 18:24

Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:35:40
GMT rf scribed:

>>>> >> dorayme, you should mention *before* citing the following URL
>>>> >> that the advice contained therein is bad advice and totally
>>>> >> outdated.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> > http://www.basictips.com/which-font-size-px-pt-em.shtml
>>>> >> >
>>>> >> > OP
>>>> >> > should not be fooled in researches.
>
>> In regard to rf's manner of speaking, -yes, he probably could have
>> been a little more polite.
>
> Where was I impolite? (I leave the relevant quote above).

Actually, the relevant quote is this:

>>
NG? Newsgroups? Even *my* news client allows me to set the size *I* want
to view text at.
>>

It contains the Neredbojiasism which I call "stroking the dog", -in this
case calling attention to "NG" when it was perfectly obvious what it
meant in the original context. I believe that is what really got
dorayme's dander up in the first place, not the subsequent line about
posting before. "Stroking the dog" is an affectation designed to, -well
frankly, get the opponent's dander up. There is also the asterick-
emphasis which is surely not an ameliorating influence.

> When I read doraymes post there was no explicit indication to me that
> she was offering up that URL as a place giving out bad advice. The OP
> or any other newbie reading that post might quite well take the URL as
> being offered up as a good example, which it is not. And I am not
> talking about anybody who might be "stupider" than I. I am talking
> about people who may be considerably less informed. Less informed so
> as to read doryames post as endorsing the subject URL.
>
> In fact, her prose: "I mention it because there is a lot of bad advice
> about" leads me to believe, on the face of it, that she *is* quoting
> that URL as a good one, and all the others offer bad advice. Once
> again, and as usual for doraymes posts, ambiguous.

I agree the message was hard to follow and not well-constructed; I didn't
quite understand it, either. But dorayme's last comment was about
politeness, not accuracy.

> And if the woman cannot accept a little correction of the above
> ambiguity then she has more problems than simply living in Bondi.

I have no disagreement with that. Btw, what does "living in Bondi" mean?

> At least my posts are to the point, not brain dumps of meaningless
> ramblings that I see an increasing number of people answering with
> "WTF are you talking about?"

And you're so subtle, too. <grin>

Yes, I've seen you honestly help many people in great detail, expending
great effort to do so. Myself, I get rather exasperated when the
question or "client" is too inane to understand me even when I may not be
perfectly clear myself. But that's being human and we all suffer from
the biological imperfection with our every breath.

--
Neredbojias
Just a boogar in the proboscis of life.

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