Reading in context
Feb. 1st, 2009 11:25 pmI just had someone lecture me in response to something I didn't say, or even kinda-say. When I challenged him, and pointed out that I didn't say that, he said it was based on context. However, he has not been an supporter of context-based assumptions in recent weeks on LJ; rather the opposite, in fact.
So. Based on context, and leaving race right out of it because God knows race has nothing to do with anything around here, I will assume the following:
1. It's ok to assume someone meant something they totally didn't say, based on context, if the person hearing it is NOT a youngish, fic-writing media fan or one of their friends.
2. However, if the person hearing something and interpreting it based on context IS a youngish, fic-writing media fan, they can fuck right the hell off, along with their friends and the unicorn they rode in on.
This is what I have learned from LJ today.
Edit: 1. I'm disabling comments on this because the temptation to discuss the person or exchange in question will be great, and that's not what I intend here (as evidenced by my having just commented about it myself)...I just want to bask in the irony. If you'd like to talk about the whole context issue, comments are open on my postmodernism post, here.
2. I don't mean to imply that any of the ficcers involved in GCDOD09/RF09 is responsible for that unicorn thing. :)
So. Based on context, and leaving race right out of it because God knows race has nothing to do with anything around here, I will assume the following:
1. It's ok to assume someone meant something they totally didn't say, based on context, if the person hearing it is NOT a youngish, fic-writing media fan or one of their friends.
2. However, if the person hearing something and interpreting it based on context IS a youngish, fic-writing media fan, they can fuck right the hell off, along with their friends and the unicorn they rode in on.
This is what I have learned from LJ today.
Edit: 1. I'm disabling comments on this because the temptation to discuss the person or exchange in question will be great, and that's not what I intend here (as evidenced by my having just commented about it myself)...I just want to bask in the irony. If you'd like to talk about the whole context issue, comments are open on my postmodernism post, here.
2. I don't mean to imply that any of the ficcers involved in GCDOD09/RF09 is responsible for that unicorn thing. :)