Oh what fun, and educational, too!
This is a very interesting exchange! (To some it won't be; click Next.) Because sometimes, because of how few moving parts are involved, micro-events are helpfully illustrious.
You are against third party references. (So am I.)
RDB, who isn't, felt like contributing a crack. Its import was that the poster, E, was behaving in a certain way the two of you could share a long-suffering tone about.
You couldn't resist joining his allusion to the poster E's annoying (or whatever) behavior. "I can hope, can't I?" you wrote.
I posted a chiding tease, "Oh look, a third party reference. Goodness me."
This would have been an honest reaction on your part: "I guess it was, sort of, but not much of one. A small lapse, I'd call it, and how picky of you to mention it."
But even though RDB, you, and I all knew it was a crack about a third party, moi, you say that
If
I look
CAREFULLY
I will see that
the words are a reference to a
"situation"
and not -- perish the thought! --
about
a
person!
This somehow reminds me of noun-free name calling and adjective-free insults.
Referring to the word Jesuitical occurs to me, and if there were a third party near I might do it, though not regarding a person -- only about a situation. You'd be able to detect this if you looked carefully. |
