Originally Posted by nattoyaki:
“Better? Nope! That's one phrase you don't need to have an enigma machine to understand given the conversation, context, and some idea of the general derogatory phrases some of these lot use (though they do constantly surprise me!). Maybe you're missing the latter, or are less lateral thinking than some? - if so fair enough
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“Better? Nope! That's one phrase you don't need to have an enigma machine to understand given the conversation, context, and some idea of the general derogatory phrases some of these lot use (though they do constantly surprise me!). Maybe you're missing the latter, or are less lateral thinking than some? - if so fair enough
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Okay, so you make your assumption based on various things, as we all must, but then do you let that inform your opinion of Danny? You might, depending on how certain you felt about your assumption. What I'm saying is that if you do (let your assumptions inform your opinions), you're deceiving yourself. Having and maintaining your opinions based on strong evidence is an important step towards being able to make useful assumptions when necessary. There should be no feedback loop in that though. You have to form hypotheses then put them to the test, not just collate your results based on your best guess. Maybe rational thinking isn't your strong suit. If so fair enough.

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“It can be both for me, or neither, despite never having heard it before.
'Wakaru' is casual Japanese and means 'understand?'. More like 'get it?' perhaps, but it doesn't matter how fully or politely you translate it if you get the gist. Perhaps that was unfair of me, particularly given that you don't!”
“It can be both for me, or neither, despite never having heard it before.
'Wakaru' is casual Japanese and means 'understand?'. More like 'get it?' perhaps, but it doesn't matter how fully or politely you translate it if you get the gist. Perhaps that was unfair of me, particularly given that you don't!”
Yes, that would have been my first guess. And the fact that I guessed correctly may seem to show that it's a useful skill, but it could have meant 1000 other things. When a person's reputation is being questioned due to the use of an ambiguous phrase I think it's more pragmatic to withhold judgment.





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