When someone replies to a message with a mysterious image macro, or with a sentence too ambiguous and terse to parse, what they’re saying is, “you should ignore me, because I couldn’t be bothered to take the time to express my opinion clearly enough for anyone to understand it.”
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I have worked on occasion to unpack such things. My conclusion, after learning what was meant, has almost always been “you made no effort to be understood, and perhaps not coincidentally, you weren’t worth making an effort to understand.”
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It takes some skill and intelligence to learn how to communicate clearly. It’s not an accident that people who can’t communicate clearly are more likely to lack those qualities.
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Both can be correct. (1) One of the most important human skills is the ability to form ideas and coherently express them so that others can understand. (2) Know your audience. (3) Dude's fault is over-broadcasting outside his audience :-)
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