Hyper-pedantry?
Jul. 24th, 2006 05:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kengrI have discovered an unsuspected flaw in myself.
In the course ofsome recent unpleasantness, I found myself very upset that a matter was not settled but rather declared no longer a matter to be discussed.
I was having trouble sleeping anyway, so I wound up thinking about it.
It finally came to me. Unlike what you'd expect, it wasn't a matter of who was right or who was wrong. Instead what was bothering me was that incorrect statements were being treated as correct and that was being ignored.
I've been accused of being far too pedantic in the past, but this seems to go beyond that.
Normally, it doesn't even matter if I wind up being wrong, as long as I've been shown that the facts I was working from were in error or incomplete.
But in this case the facts in question were what I had said or what what I had said was intended to mean.
No wonder I couldn't let it go. And why the other person wanting to drop it was so frustrating..
I'm not sure this would have helped if I'd realized it sooner. But it has caused me to be a bit more careful about how I present things in the future.
In the course ofsome recent unpleasantness, I found myself very upset that a matter was not settled but rather declared no longer a matter to be discussed.
I was having trouble sleeping anyway, so I wound up thinking about it.
It finally came to me. Unlike what you'd expect, it wasn't a matter of who was right or who was wrong. Instead what was bothering me was that incorrect statements were being treated as correct and that was being ignored.
I've been accused of being far too pedantic in the past, but this seems to go beyond that.
Normally, it doesn't even matter if I wind up being wrong, as long as I've been shown that the facts I was working from were in error or incomplete.
But in this case the facts in question were what I had said or what what I had said was intended to mean.
No wonder I couldn't let it go. And why the other person wanting to drop it was so frustrating..
I'm not sure this would have helped if I'd realized it sooner. But it has caused me to be a bit more careful about how I present things in the future.
