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This a stupidly phrased comment. I just called your comment stupid, not you. See how that was rude?

• Arnavion 6y ago
  >I just called your comment stupid, not you. To add fuel to the off-topic grammar pedantry fire: "Stupidly phrased" applies "stupid" to the phraser, not the phrasee. So no, you did in fact call them stupid, not their comment.
  • minitoar 6y ago
    Setting aside that I was making an absurd argument to prove a point: Hey I’m just saying the phrasing is stupid! It’s an abstract thing completely separate from the person who did the phrasing /s
  • munificent 6y ago
    > So no, you did in fact call them stupid, not their comment. I mean, fine, if we're going to be grammar nerds, let's do it. "Stupidly" is an adverb. It applies to the act of phrasing not the subject doing that verb. At the moment that the person was doing the phrasing, they were doing something in a stupid manner, but that doesn't necessarily imply that they are themselves generally stupid. For example, I can "randomly choose a card from a deck." That doesn't imply that I'm a particularly random person.