1/ I have an extremely angry reaction when someone tells me that I'm factually wrong when I'm factually right. Like, not healthy hey-a-psychologist-could-prob-have-some-fun-with-this extreme. Dealing with a proofreader right now who has MULTIPLE times told me
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13/ absolutely I'm always up for a nuanced discussion re word CHOICE I just dislike being told that I'm WRONG https://twitter.com/poutinecurd/status/1367489176157970441 …
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This is me when a student’s parent asserts that the way I teach is wrong, rather than asking “Explain why you do [x] in class.” The baseline assumption is I just made methods up for no reason, rather than spent 21 years reading and refining craft.
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(the difference, of course: in your story, you are the customer. In mine, it’s the parent. So my internal white-hot rage gets tooth-clenchingly smoothed into “I’ll be glad to explain why I run class the way I do...”
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Now, the suggestion that "You might want to change this word, because even though it is correct, readers might interpret it by a different, more common definition" might be reasonable. E.g. patronize = act as a patron of.
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You have my complete sympathy. I am still unreasonably annoyed at the editor who told me it was impossible to navigate from one planet to another with a slide rule. I chose ending the business relationship over replying, "I can do it."
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