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A polite way to say this would be "Can you clarify what your concern is?" or "Can you clarify what you're referring to?". The original phrase drips with disdain
by Pyxl101 7y ago
A polite way to say this would be "Can you clarify what your concern is?" or "Can you clarify what you're referring to?". The original phrase drips with disdain. If that's not the intended sentiment, then well, that's a challenge of conveying emotions in text. You could always include an emoji to better convey the meaning :-)
Some phrases come with a built-in sentiment that people will assume exists unless it's overridden.
- badrabbit 7y agoA rephrase would be "what you are saying makes no sense at all" I think that can equally be misunderstood. It does drip of disdain, you are not misunderstanding that part, you (and @dang) are misunderstaning the subject of this disdain which is the perceieved lack of logical coherence on my end. You're taking it as if I meant that if I am right and the other person is wrong, their knowledge or intellect should be discredited, hence why dang said it was a swipe. To me, it simply means (if I am right, which may not be the case) they lacked the perspective which I laid out as an argument afterwards. The purpose of the discord is so we gain new perspectives that change our understandings and opinions on the subject matter. I don't even remember the nick of the person I replied to, and I made sure that my identity is not visible on HN (outside of correlations people can make),I have absolutely no reason to one up anyone. I still maintain it was clearly not a swipe purely due to the fact that I made no attempts to attack the persons personality or intellect or to promote my own, as such my intellectual honesty and purity of intent should be given the benefit of the doubt.