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Re:Female scientists mock Nobel laureate with photos by dragonwriter on Friday June 12, 2015 @07:53PM (#9709260)
> 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.

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Re:Female scientists mock Nobel laureate with photos by jack-r-abbit on Friday June 12, 2015 @08:34PM (#9709368)
> 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."

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