I don’t know; I tend to antikibbitz unless I’m involved in the conversation. This most recent time was Dmytry, certainly. The others may have been you.
And I’m not really sure what’s going on between me and Dmytry, really, though we sure do seem to be talking at cross-purposes. Perhaps he misunderstood me, I don’t know.
That said, it’s a failure mode I’ve noticed I get into not-uncommonly. My usual reaction to a conversation getting confusing is to slow all the way down and take very small steps and seek confirmation for each step. Usually it works well, but sometimes interlocutors will neither confirm my step, nor refute it, but rather make some other statement that’s just as opaque to me as the statement I was trying to clarify, and pretty soon I start feeling like they’re having a completely different conversation to which I haven’t even been invited.
I don’t know a good conversational fix for this; past a certain point I tend to just give up and listen.
Just by me, right? I deliberately used it like fifty times. (FWIW I’m not sure but I think Dmytry misunderstood you somewhere/somehow.)
I don’t know; I tend to antikibbitz unless I’m involved in the conversation. This most recent time was Dmytry, certainly. The others may have been you.
And I’m not really sure what’s going on between me and Dmytry, really, though we sure do seem to be talking at cross-purposes. Perhaps he misunderstood me, I don’t know.
That said, it’s a failure mode I’ve noticed I get into not-uncommonly. My usual reaction to a conversation getting confusing is to slow all the way down and take very small steps and seek confirmation for each step. Usually it works well, but sometimes interlocutors will neither confirm my step, nor refute it, but rather make some other statement that’s just as opaque to me as the statement I was trying to clarify, and pretty soon I start feeling like they’re having a completely different conversation to which I haven’t even been invited.
I don’t know a good conversational fix for this; past a certain point I tend to just give up and listen.