Posted by Katie (203.87.64.186) on August 20, 2001 at 18:34:55:
In Reply to: Re: To Sarah & Raymond. posted by Raymond on August 18, 2001 at 00:08:54:
"... all that i was saying was that the tone i got from your reply to sarah was degrading and i so i did the same thing to you, and now you know how it feels to be degraded from a reply."
Sorry, if your attempt was to stoop to my level (as you saw it), then you did so in vain. I neither feel degraded, nor was I treating Sarah that way. Despite your not caring how long I've been using message boards, maybe if you're relatively new to this, you too will learn to develop a tougher skin with the written word and learn not to put in your own personal over/undertones to other people's words.
"also i did not assume that you had glitter in your eyes ..."
Oh you didn't did you? Want me to quote yourself back to you again? "just becuz you got glitter stuck in your eye ..." Maybe they teach grammar different where we're each from, but as far as I'd assume based on my common knowledge of english comprehension; that comment means you were referring to "me" (with the "you") having glitter in my eye. My "assumption" was based on literal meaning, not an assumption of tone; unlike many you've made yourself.
"in fact if maybe you would read you would see that i say PROBABLY and that does not mean that you certainly did so there YOU go taking MY words and changing them into a different meaning which i could have sworn you said you hated being done to your words."
Actually, I was taking your words literally, which is what I swore I wish people would do more often (this is amusing). To quote you back again; "plus i am probably sure she meant a little glitter". The point at which you used "probably" was to do with the AMOUNT of glitter, not in reference to me getting it in my eye at all (that was the previous sentence).
If you genuinely believe that your post didn't state I'd had it in my eyes and you said probably (in reference to that) which would mean not "certainly", then I dearly hope you are not out of high school yet.
"Also if you havenot seen so much american diving then don't make the answer seem so obvious since YOU DON'T live in the United States and do not know how it goes."
What's the enormous difference between diving in the U.S. and anywhere else, that my reasoning is not just as valid if I lived there?? Could you tell me that, or were you just speaking for the fun of it (all mighty about nothing really). Glitter is glitter, hair ties are hair ties, water water, a competition a competition and a dive a dive ... what differs in the U.S. that makes it not alright for my opinion to sound obvious because I don't "live" there?
"So basically what i am saying is that i can see the reasoning over what you were saying it was just that the way you put it back to her sounded so degrading. If you did not meant it than OOHH WELL cuz that is what you implied".
Well no, it's not what I implied; it's simply how you took it. However I have made no effort to "not" be patronising in this reply to you. But I'm not implying it, just making a reply to your words (not the tone of them) without caring how "degrading" I may sound in the process (since you made no effort to do so for me). But again, no implication of it, just simple statements.
Two can play at any game you know; but I'll just let you know that you started this one with me, because all I did was give a reply to another poster.