Hey, you say I'm being weaselly. I say you're picking on me. A matter of perception, kid
1. Don't call me a kid if you also call me an equal. I'm not insulted by it, but it's more or less an insult to you.
2. It's not actually a matter of perception if I keep motioning to proof and logical analysis of one of your posts, and you've pointed to something that isn't actually there. My tone may be annoyed, but it's always cynical in this thread, if you'd like to go back through my earlier posts here.
Whether it was intentional or not, I'd rather you have called me an idiot to say my post was badly-worded.
Last I checked, idiot was a clear, personal insult. Badly-worded was constructive criticism about your actual post -- not even your actual writing style.
If you're going to be a writer, you're going to have to realize (not saying you already don't, although this discussion seems to imply it) that not everything you say is going to be straightforward because you're human. However, as a result, someone else is going to look at something that seems off and question it because it's the internet. You have to have the kind of skin that enables you to face the fact that what you say isn't always perfect and that you're going to have to explain, refine, or apologize for it later.
Also, you claim that you're a writer. That's great, but if you are, then post something.
Then, I can decide about your actual writing style. I consider it to be separate from posts. I know you don't; I'm simply saying that I was, in no way, insinuating anything about your abilities as a writer so much as a conversationalist.
I was narrowing things down too much? Like I said before, I could have made a 20-paragraph post... I opted for three. I'm not going to write a thesis on the inherent and applied differences and similarities between literary elements, literary device, literary technique, and literary whatever.
I'm not asking you to do so. I'm telling you that if you didn't mean what I say you meant in your first post, all you had to do was add a few lines and change the wording of the ones that are already there in order to clarify what you were saying.
I said what needed to be said and no one got an entirely wrong impression of what the terms mean.
Because no one other than me actually responded to your post.
I'm not playing the victim card. I feel you're needlessly antagonizing me, and I don't like it.
Which is the victim card because there's no proof that I am, considering it's not actually new. (Why any vets are thinking that it is beyond me.) It's just the first real time with you, and you're not really realizing that this isn't the first time I've had this kind of debate.