@SavoirFaire That or he didn’t actually understand the reason and chose to ask this question instead of looking for clarification.
Since we are speaking mod matters in open court, let’s at least get it right. This question was to add validity to what was said. I heard the reason for the other question being cockblocked, this was to see how true it was. A few questions posted after that, that I see seemed to tip toe the same issue, and survived the cutting room floor.
No one is asking you to dumb it down. They are asking you to smarten it up. The affected way in which you typically write on Fluther is confusing..]
If anyone want to smarten things up, we can start with the quality of questions asked. I can’t seem where the confusion is, the question has a clear path, the answer to it just the same, it is either left or right; up or down; hot or cold; soft or hard; black or white; on or off, etc. If one really cares about the motivation of why a person asked what they asked, if it keeps them form answering the question, maybe they should PM the asker to gain some enlightenment to answer the question if they cannot see the boundaries of the question.
[…but because you try so hard to sound smart that what comes out barely counts as English.
I do not try to sound like anyone, OK, I avoid trying to sound like a gangsta, would not know how anyway. I can say the same myself of others, but that is the thing about opinions…….
But your attempts to impress and the supercilious tone that tends to accompany them nearly always falls flat precisely because most of the people here are smart enough to see through it. Just be yourself. It’s good enough.
I speak to people here the same way I speak to people I meet in the real world, OK, if they are hood rats I use simpler words. I have no need to impress anyone here, not a single member signs my checks. If they understand the question but do not like the tone, like cable, switch the channel, it would be crazy to curse at the TV because the show on it you don’t like. It seems to me people get lost more when I use the local jargon, (for lack of a better word), and that is me. If I can’t in pleasant conversation say ”Those zip zappers in their hoopties won’t give a dude any play unless he is gripped like a T-Rex with a fat pocket” and not have people scratching their heads because they don’t know what is said, then I can’t talk to them like that, can I?