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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction
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To: epicure who wrote (61621)8/3/2007 6:30:10 PM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (1) of 90947
 
Why do I have to tell Stockman that?

When someone says "try telling that to ..." its not an order to go do it. Its an idiom. Thats a communication concept where the true meaning of a phrase is different from the literal meaning, the true meaning being known by common usage.

I don't think the army is full of psychopaths.

Good. Here's another communication concept - implication - as in the act of implying or indicating something by other than a direct literal statement. Offering up "humerous" comments or jokes which "imply" something will cause people to think you mean that something even though you didn't say that something literally.

What you do is read my posts and make all sorts of inferences ...

People always make inferences about things other people say. They have to because people don't always speak directly and literally (nor should they) - they routinely employ idioms, imply things indirectly, etc. Its an ordinary aspect of communication.

and much of the time I would never dream anyone would make some of the inferences you do.

Hard to believe unless you aren't a native speaker of American English. I interpret the "not what I said" arguments to be distractions from the primary subject, perhaps intentional distractions.

Consider the "try telling that .." above. A native speaker of American English understands that and I think you do. But when you're talking to someone you disagree with you go into this defensive obsfucation mode.

At least thats my opinion.
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