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Then you have a much higher bar for pedantry than I do. I get annoyed when someone makes a brief, general statement and gets called out for not carefully softe
by corysama 9y ago
Then you have a much higher bar for pedantry than I do. I get annoyed when someone makes a brief, general statement and gets called out for not carefully softening it to near pointlessness. In general conversation, I'd prefer it if people assumed most statements were generalizations that are statistically significant and not proof assertions that are either True or False. Otherwise, discussion becomes extremely watered down with every statement swamped in disclaimers, softeners, exceptions and alternatives. Err... I meant "most statements except in specific situations where you are..." :P
- nocman 9y agoI get where you are coming from, and I also think there is a line where it seems you can't say anything without having to qualify it so much that it becomes annoying. It was not clear to me whether gcp's statement was supposed to be limited to a comparison between C++ and Java/dotnet/python (and I addressed that in the post that you responded to). I felt it was worth the qualification for the sake of discussion, and I still don't think it was being pedantic to ask (especially since I addressed the possibility of it being the above comparison). I wasn't just nitpicking for the sake of nitpicking. And my question was a far cry from asking him to "defend a mathematical thesis", IMHO.