Main > Everything Else

Learning a Lesson

<< < (14/15) > >>

Vigo:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on December 21, 2006, 07:56:04 am ---
--- Quote from: shmokes on December 20, 2006, 11:23:09 pm ---I'm not sure that "EVERYONE" should be italicized or in caps.  I think people have been talking about hydrogen fuel cells and you have assumed they were talking about combustion when they actually weren't.  Fuel cells have been the darling of the media for years and I haven't heard squat about combustion.  All of the auto companies, from Honda and Toyota to GM and Ford have been making announcements about fuel cells and showing prototypes at the car shows.   Fuel cells have been all over the media.  You'd have to live in a cave to have missed the ongoing discussion.

--- End quote ---


How could you possibly know the people I've talked to?  And worse, try to make assumptions about what other people may or may not have said in conversations you didn't witness with people you didn't know?

--- End quote ---

because you have been talking to people on the boards...and you have no idea what they were talking about because you never asked them to specify...

You don't know what EVERYONE was talking about...you assumed

shmokes didn't have to guess about your conversations, he just read this thread...

ChadTower:

This isn't talking.  It's a text based message board.

Talking is verbal in my eyes.  And I have never once talked with anyone on this board about hydrogen cars.  I suppose that definition now includes such message boards but I don't usually consider them when I use the word talking.

Vigo:
I hate when people play with semantics like that, its really childish...If you want to get literal about the word "talk", you should have at least looked the word up.
Talk Verb:
1) to communicate or exchange ideas, information, or knowledge. 
2) to consult or confer.
3) to spread rumor or gossip. 
4) to chatter. 
5) to employ speech. perform the act of speaking
6) to communicate ideas by means other than speech.
7) to make sounds imitative of speech.

Bottom line, what you discussed on this board is not null or void because of your alternate means of expression.

ChadTower:

I actually did look up the word and conceded that it wasn't the best use of the word.  I went so far as to explain what I actually meant to say.  What more do you want, an apology for using the verb talk instead of specifically saying "people I have verbally spoken with in real life"?



Vigo:
I just want you to know that shmokes does have a point, the people on the board will obviously think that you mean them in the EVERYBODY category you speak of, which really can be upsetting, because you didn't know what people on the board were talking about other than shardian, who has first hand experiance with hydrogen combustion engines. All in all, it was probably just a misconception by us since you didn't make clear your meaning, but yeah, if you only mean people you have verbally spoken with, you should say so if others on this board might think that you are talking down to them.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page

[*] Previous page

Go to full version