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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 9253444" data-attributes="member: 177">Right, but I can't read minds.  If you appear to say one thing at one time, and another thing at another time, I cannot resolve the inconsistency myself.  I cannot even assume that it was intended to be consistent - people often aren't entirely consistent, after all.  I can merely point out what is said, and what that appears to mean, which is what I did. "Well, before I have said X," doesn't in and of itself resolve the inconsistency.  For me, it highlights it - if before you have said X, then how come you appear to say Y here?How is what you said in the post I responded to equivalent to those previous statements? Sure.  But then we are still left with what pemerton pointed out:You used to a phrasing that implied a generalization, rather than a particular issue for a particular table.  Internet conversations often elide that way.  Pemerton and I are both simply noting it.If you didn't intend that connotation (perhaps it was a shortening of "It isn't viable for some people" or somesuch), how about you just tell us that? If you did intend it, you're going to have to supply different support for that before we accept the point, because the only other support the point seems to have had was personal experience, which we are all agreeing should not be grounds for a generalization.</blockquote>