It's possible (I never quite learned to deal with Dutch directness,for example) but some words are just plain awful, eg terrorism
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Replying to @chbergma @xenia_sch
also what difference would it make really? It would still hurt me if somebody from my culture was rude to me in English
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I wonder if some are unaware of these diffs. For someone who never left US "you're wrong" might be construed as personal.
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Replying to @xenia_sch @chbergma
it's kind of personal. "that's wrong" is a tiny bit better. But in general I'd avoid myself.
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"that doesn't seem OK" is acceptable to me but nothing with "wrong" in it imho. Case in point http://2016.pyconuk.org/news/20160919-coc/ …
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“You’re doing it wrong” can be helpful and welcome - privately. But not shouted out at a speaker during a talk
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sure the context is not private here though and the response was "you're a terrorist". Oh, science.
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IMHO criticism shld be private if possible. But with highly cited papers, public needs to know about any errors.
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so for our against open peer review?
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Totally for! But being nice is a matter of politeness. No need to publicly destroy ERCs' work, for example.
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I'm undecided on former
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