Girls, girls!  You're BOTH pretty!

Quote from: Gronan of Simmerya;867161Girls, girls!  You're BOTH pretty!

but who do you like best?  Hmmmmm?

Quote from: Gronan of Simmerya;867161Girls, girls!  You're BOTH pretty!

Thanks, Mrs. Garrett! Can I go roller skate outside now?

Quote from: yosemitemike;867153Then I will consider that a rhetorical dodge and dismiss it as such.  Saying, "not my job to educate you" is another standard rhetorical dodge.  Say the exchange was reversed.

OK. Would it look something like this?

You: I don't understand your context.

Other person: The context is clear. Why don't you read the posts?

You: That is a ridiculous demand. It must be a rhetorical dodge. You should spoon feed me the context so I don't have to read the thread I am posting in.

Quote from: Opaopajr;867165Thanks, Mrs. Garrett! Can I go roller skate outside now?

As long as it is in traffic and you don't look both ways Trudi.

Quote from: Bren;867166OK. Would it look something like this?

Me: You said something that implies A or B.  Which is it?

Other person: Nuh uh cuz context.

Me: That's a tired old excuse.

Yeah, that's about the size of it.

Quote from: yosemitemike;867173Yeah, that's about the size of it.

You really are finding this whole "context" thing baffling aren't you. Let me try another example.

   Original Poster: I was living in a monastery in the early aughts, so I guess I missed all the clever Rabbits.

You: Either you somehow failed to notice the mammals that are all around us or you are saying there are no clever mamamls.

Original poster: I think you missed the context of my original statement.

You: Referring to context is just a rhetorical dodge. You must be saying either that you have never seen many mammals or that there are no clever mammals. And that's just wrong because there are lots of mammals around and several mammals are clever.

Original Poster: Your continuing inability to understand what I said makes you look stupid.

You: That's just another rhetorical dodge. Either you are saying you've never seen many mammals or that there are no clever mammals.

Notice the original post never mentioned all mammals and in particular he never mentioned the cleverness of all mammals in any context.

Quote from: Bren;867182You really are finding this whole "context" thing baffling aren't you.

Not really.  I have just seen this "because context" thing used over and over again and I'm not buying it.

Quote from: Bren;867166As long as it is in traffic and you don't look both ways Trudi.

I think that's called a microaggresion nowadays, Mrs. Garett, but OK!

Quote from: yosemitemike;867189Not really.  I have just seen this "because context" thing used over and over again and I'm not buying it.

Well yosemitemike, don't feel bad. Context is hard to learn. Since context costs too much for your budget, here's a free web site to help you. This site has an award winning feature called "Talk to Tutor Mike" that will help you. Tutor Mike will help you to learn English. If you practice a lot with Tutor Mike, you will read and understand the posts on this site. :cheerleader:

Quote from: Bren;867241Well yosemitemike, don't feel bad. Context is hard to learn. Since context costs too much for your budget, here's a free web site to help you. This site has an award winning feature called "Talk to Tutor Mike" that will help you. Tutor Mike will help you to learn English. If you practice a lot with Tutor Mike, you will read and understand the posts on this site. :cheerleader:

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Quote from: Bren;867241Well yosemitemike, don't feel bad. Context is hard to learn. Since context costs too much for your budget, here's a free web site to help you. This site has an award winning feature called "Talk to Tutor Mike" that will help you. Tutor Mike will help you to learn English. If you practice a lot with Tutor Mike, you will read and understand the posts on this site. :cheerleader:

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Quote from: yosemitemike;867189Not really.  I have just seen this "because context" thing used over and over again and I'm not buying it.

So you're denying that there is such a thing as "context?"

:huhsign:

Quote from: Bren;867241Well yosemitemike, don't feel bad.

I never feel bad about pointing out BS.

Quote from: Gronan of Simmerya;867289So you're denying that there is such a thing as "context?"

:huhsign:

Yeah, no.  We've all seen people trying to weasel out of something they said by talking vaguely about being taken out of context.  The dead giveaway that this is bullshit is that they don't bother to try to explain what the context was that would make what they said mean something other than what they said and/or refuse to explain this when asked.  Also, instead of trying to explain this context they are vaguely referring to, they try to put the other person on the defensive with name calling.  Do we have those things here?  Check, check and check.

Quote from: yosemitemike;867383Yeah, no.  We've all seen people trying to weasel out of something they said by talking vaguely about being taken out of context.  The dead giveaway that this is bullshit is that they don't bother to try to explain what the context was that would make what they said mean something other than what they said and/or refuse to explain this when asked.  Also, instead of trying to explain this context they are vaguely referring to, they try to put the other person on the defensive with name calling.  Do we have those things here?  Check, check and check.

The context of Aspiring Lich's post isn't exactly well hidden, all you have to do is read the post he was replying to, which is only two posts higher in the thread.

Quote from: JoeNuttall;867450The context of Aspiring Lich's post isn't exactly well hidden, all you have to do is read the post he was replying to, which is only two posts higher in the thread.

and nothing there makes me think that what he said means anything other than what the words say.