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> If you're really in that situation, you should attend community college ... dropping out will only waste money In what situation? The way your post reads com

by warent 5y ago

> If you're really in that situation, you should attend community college ... dropping out will only waste money In what situation? The way your post reads comes across as vaguely resentful of people who aren't upper class. Most high school graduates cannot afford university out of pocket. That doesn't mean that they need to lower their bar or that they're somehow at a higher risk of dropping out. Your comment is coming completely out of left field.

thaumasiotes 5y ago
Did you know that by judiciously chopping some words out of a sentence, you can create an entirely different sentence? It's usually considered bad form to do this while suggesting you're quoting someone, though. Compare: >> dropping out will only waste money you already had if you were paying out of your savings. It will waste a lot more than that otherwise. > dropping out will only waste money Did you not notice that the meanings of these sentences are not related? What is the scope of only in each of them?
- warent 5y ago
  Sure, I would happily edit my post with the added context if HN would let me (the post is too old to edit now), and yet I would leave the rest of my post unedited because I don't feel it changes anything. You're obviously frustrated, and feel I extracted a snippet from its context to fit my narrative. Unfortunately that's not the case.
  - thaumasiotes 5y ago
    > You're obviously frustrated, and feel I extracted a snippet from its context to fit my narrative. No, I feel you extracted a snippet from the grammatical structures it was part of, producing something that only appeared to be a full sentence by coincidence. You didn't leave out context, you left out the sentence you were supposedly quoting, and substituted a different one. Imagine me quoting your comment here in the form > if HN would let me... I would leave Is the problem really that I left out some context?
    - warent 5y ago
      Yes
      - thaumasiotes 5y ago
        You should have gotten this from my prior comment, but no, it isn't.

by warent 5y ago

thaumasiotes 5y ago

Did you know that by judiciously chopping some words out of a sentence, you can create an entirely different sentence? It's usually considered bad form to do this while suggesting you're quoting someone, though. Compare: >> dropping out will only waste money you already had if you were paying out of your savings. It will waste a lot more than that otherwise. > dropping out will only waste money Did you not notice that the meanings of these sentences are not related? What is the scope of only in each of them?

warent 5y ago
Sure, I would happily edit my post with the added context if HN would let me (the post is too old to edit now), and yet I would leave the rest of my post unedited because I don't feel it changes anything. You're obviously frustrated, and feel I extracted a snippet from its context to fit my narrative. Unfortunately that's not the case.
- thaumasiotes 5y ago
  > You're obviously frustrated, and feel I extracted a snippet from its context to fit my narrative. No, I feel you extracted a snippet from the grammatical structures it was part of, producing something that only appeared to be a full sentence by coincidence. You didn't leave out context, you left out the sentence you were supposedly quoting, and substituted a different one. Imagine me quoting your comment here in the form > if HN would let me... I would leave Is the problem really that I left out some context?
  - warent 5y ago
    Yes
    - thaumasiotes 5y ago
      You should have gotten this from my prior comment, but no, it isn't.