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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You expect people to communicate only by interpreting meaning correctly. And that's simply not how most people operate. Tone IS important. Socialization IS key when communcating with a lot of people. I am not saying being stubbornly incorrect is a good trait, but the fact that you think there are a lot of people who are, is probably part of your problem here.

Any person just wants to be treated decently, which doesn't include getting called 'normie'.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Tone IS important.

Yes, but failure in choosing more pleasant tone is not fatal, it can be, eh, possibly endured, while pretending that a mistake is not a mistake certainly poisons everything in the conversation after it.

"Normie" is an insult for those who say or behave the way implying that you yourself are not normal. It's not as if it was hard to find people matching the criterion.

And frankly for socialization people dance, tell anecdotes and do other similar things. In an argument correctness is the goal.