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You have absolutely no clue about this person If someone makes a public comment that is illegible [1] or incomprehensible, then I have a pretty good clue about
by Confusion 17y ago
You have absolutely no clue about this person
If someone makes a public comment that is illegible [1] or incomprehensible, then I have a pretty good clue about that persons inability to write. Considering how close the ability to write and the ability to think are, you also have a pretty good clue about their ability to think. Of course, this all depends on the assumption the comment wasn't just a troll.
[1] Or can you say that only about handwriting?
- epochwolf 17y agoPretty sure illegible is only applicable to handwriting. It would mean the same as incomprehensible for typed speech, unless you want to start playing around with character set issues. ;)
- JadeNB 17y ago> [1] Or can you say that only about handwriting? Although something that is illegible is certainly unreadable, you have hit here on the fact that the converse is false, explaining why we need both words. (I.e.: a piece of writing is illegible if the glyphs that constitute it cannot be discovered; the unfortunate comment you found was made only of recognisable glyphs, so perfectly legible, but unreadable.)
- mishmash 17y ago>If someone makes a public comment that is illegible [1] or incomprehensible, then I have a pretty good clue about that persons inability to write. That's simply not true. I've worked with doctors who write emails in "lol this is for u" format, and by merit, they obviously know how to write.