I’m sorry if it wasn’t clear, but the choice of the words “wacky foreign” was to be silly (in an apparently failed attempt to keep the discussion light), not to indicate an actual belief about the relative wackiness of foreign and domestic soft drinks.
I am afraid I missed that. The plain literal interpretation actually seemed to me to more closely fit the remainder of the reply. The core of your reply took the discussion from ‘light and slightly silly’ to serious while simultaniously dismissing the underlying serious message, which rather shocked me. ‘Light and silly’ just doesn’t seem to work when rapport is broken, which I tend to discover rather often!
In any case, I wouldn’t change a word of either of my preceeding posts yet am intrigued by the response. (And also somewhat glad karma can be gained so readily on trivial topics that it can be freely spent on those that I feel actually matter.)
I’m sorry if it wasn’t clear, but the choice of the words “wacky foreign” was to be silly (in an apparently failed attempt to keep the discussion light), not to indicate an actual belief about the relative wackiness of foreign and domestic soft drinks.
I am afraid I missed that. The plain literal interpretation actually seemed to me to more closely fit the remainder of the reply. The core of your reply took the discussion from ‘light and slightly silly’ to serious while simultaniously dismissing the underlying serious message, which rather shocked me. ‘Light and silly’ just doesn’t seem to work when rapport is broken, which I tend to discover rather often!
In any case, I wouldn’t change a word of either of my preceeding posts yet am intrigued by the response. (And also somewhat glad karma can be gained so readily on trivial topics that it can be freely spent on those that I feel actually matter.)