One of the greatest conversational sins is to make an extremely ambiguous claim and then to refuse to clarify what you mean by the claim. An even greater sin is to get offended by a request for clarification, or even to claim that asking for clarification is offensive.
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If a position is worth stating in public, it's worth explaining clearly and distinctly enough that third parties can understand what you mean. If you can't communicate well enough that others can understand your position, the fault is not with them.
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And all too often, people attach enormous importance to claims they make that are based in so much ambiguous terminology that it isn't even possible to determine if the claim is true or false. Any such position isn't worth having, and isn't worth angrily defending.
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Even worse, making the claim using old unusual words to which you give your own ad hoc interpretation—and misspelling the word to boot.
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