The Right Approach to Exceptions

James Miller james at aatch.net
Thu Feb 23 07:13:17 PST 2012


On 23 February 2012 05:09, Regan Heath <regan at netmail.co.nz> wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:19:17 -0000, Andrei Alexandrescu
> <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
>
>> On 2/21/12 5:55 AM, Regan Heath wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 23:04:59 -0000, Andrei Alexandrescu
>>> <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2/19/12 4:00 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>> Seriously, how is this not *already* crystal-clear? I feel as if
>>>>> every few
>>>>> weeks you're just coming up with deliberately random shit to argue so
>>>>> the
>>>>> rest of us have to waste our time spelling out the obvious in insanely
>>>>> pedantic detail.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It sometimes happened to me to be reach the hypothesis that my
>>>> interlocutor must be some idiot. Most often I was missing something.
>>>
>>>
>>> I get the impression that you find "Devil's advocate" a useful tool for
>>> generating debate and out of the box thinking.. there is something to be
>>> said for that, but it's probably less annoying to some if you're clear
>>> about that from the beginning. :p
>>
>>
>> Where did it seem I was playing devil's advocate? Thanks.
>
>
> "Devil's Advocate" is perhaps not the right term, as you don't seem to ever
> argue the opposite to what you believe.  But, it occasionally seems to me
> that you imply ignorance on your part, in order to draw more information
> from other posters on exactly what they think or are proposing.  So, some
> get frustrated as they feel they have to explain "everything" to you (and
> not just you, there have been times where - for whatever reason - it seems
> that anything less than a description of every single minute detail results
> in a miss understanding - no doubt partly due to the medium in which we are
> communicating).
>
>
> Regan
>
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I think that is technically called being facetious.

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James Miller


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