Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 8167287" data-attributes="member: 23751">Are you technically correct?&nbsp; Yes.&nbsp; However, it's not the common usage of the term.&nbsp; People use it commonly to mean in anger, often with threat.&nbsp; It's uncommon for people to use the term to mean &quot;Strongly opposed to an idea&quot; the way you do, and most of the time when they do, they are talking about being angry with the idea, not just strongly opposed, mixing the definitions.&nbsp; It's pretty rare for it to be used correctly in that manner, so it's no wonder that people are reacting this way to your statement.You could have just said, &quot;Hey.&nbsp; I just meant strongly opposed, so consider me to have said that.&quot;, but instead you did stubbornly dig in your heels over your technically correct, but rarely seen usage of the word.As I said in a prior post, you can continue to use that definition, but expect to see people take it the way we have and react as if you meant it differently.Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go threaten a company with an &quot;upset&quot; takeover. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Maxperson, post: 8167287, member: 23751"] Are you technically correct? Yes. However, it's not the common usage of the term. People use it commonly to mean in anger, often with threat. It's uncommon for people to use the term to mean "Strongly opposed to an idea" the way you do, and most of the time when they do, they are talking about being angry with the idea, not just strongly opposed, mixing the definitions. It's pretty rare for it to be used correctly in that manner, so it's no wonder that people are reacting this way to your statement. You could have just said, "Hey. I just meant strongly opposed, so consider me to have said that.", but instead you did stubbornly dig in your heels over your technically correct, but rarely seen usage of the word. As I said in a prior post, you can continue to use that definition, but expect to see people take it the way we have and react as if you meant it differently. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go threaten a company with an "upset" takeover. ;) [/QUOTE]

Verification