Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tim Rentsch Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: Tricky! Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2019 05:22:55 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 23 Message-ID: <86mug6br34.fsf@mailhub.linuxsc.com> References: <7995a414-14ec-47ae-8afc-9ebcc520e30d@googlegroups.com> <86mugv8ug0.fsf@mailhub.linuxsc.com> <86d0hc8zkw.fsf@mailhub.linuxsc.com> <867e7bcbhl.fsf@mailhub.linuxsc.com> <7061c870-37ad-4d70-b185-b30df506dca4@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="938936979bf6115e9d0086b39ae6a6d8"; logging-data="24331"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18Cq3kzcXX6i2dyT988DRrifcADCrXAc0I=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:zzyWNJmnu9NmKdlTOSG6w5arsjs= sha1:GAyPBVQSdAyAsE2IMzVI9GwW7h0= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c++:67751 Tiib writes: > On Sunday, 18 August 2019 08:02:30 UTC+3, Tim Rentsch wrote: > >> Tiib writes: [...] >>> My ideas may feel to be useless to many but at least I try >>> to provide some. I meant that your lack of attempt to express >>> any thoughts started to feel strange. Have I offended you >>> somehow? >> >> I have the sense that your communication style is more >> argumentative than constructive. I don't like arguing, and I >> don't like trying to have a productive conversation with people >> who are more interested in argument than communication. So in >> exchanges with you I've learned not to say very much, because >> trying to say more would for me be counter-productive. > > I have dropped viewing discussions as some kind of combat long > ago. [...] I didn't say combative, I said argumentative. They aren't the same thing.