Re:Female scientists mock Nobel laureate with photos
by dragonwriter on Friday June 12, 2015 @07:53PM
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> An equally valuable lesson is if something can be taken different ways, make sure you are taking it the same way the other person meant it.
In English, you can be specific or generic, but it can't mean "I and only I".
Your suggested "interpretation" is a radical rewriting that even Hunt's own apology/defense doesn't offer, it just offers experience as the basis for the generalizations.
Re:Female scientists mock Nobel laureate with photos
by jack-r-abbit on Friday June 12, 2015 @08:34PM
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> you can be specific or generic
Well... there you go. I thought when you said "you" you were specifically referring to me. But then I reread it and it turns out you were saying "[the word] you." English is a pretty complicated language. No wonder we're always pissing each other off. (Edit: "we're" was not meant to refer to specifically you and I. It was a more general "we as a people."
Re:Female scientists mock Nobel laureate with photos
by Nadya on Friday June 12, 2015 @07:54PM
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Offense is rarely given - only taken. It doesn't matter how you meant to say something or what context you said it in. If someone wants to be offended by it, they will. [0]
[0] http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2015/01/30/...
An equally valuable lesson is if something can be taken different ways, make sure you are taking it the same way the other person meant it. He didn't say it was or was not a generalization. He didn't say it was or was not only personal experience. Everyone just made their own assumptions.