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Fonceai · Jan 18, 2007, 10:47 pm

I've never encountered "condescention" on this forum.

You need to differentiate between someone telling you you're wrong because they think you're stupid and wrong because you don't understand.

Believe it or not, the first step in refuting someone else's argument is demonstrating that you understand it.

Then repeat it back to them.

Then refute it.

But when you make it appear that you didn't really pay attention to anything and you don't address what people say, and instead introduce more of your own ideas without maintaining the exchange of dialog, then someone pointing out your own failings to you will seem like condescension.

You'll also get better responses if you use Firefox 2 or IE 6 and pay attention to the spell checker. And context. Hard to ignore the fact that you're 14 years old when you write "flower" instead of "flour".

Jan 18, 2007, 10:47 pm	#6 (permalink) (top)
Fonceai BANNED Location: New York Posts: 4,217	I've never encountered "condescention" on this forum. You need to differentiate between someone telling you you're wrong because they think you're stupid and wrong because you don't understand. Believe it or not, the first step in refuting someone else's argument is demonstrating that you understand it. Then repeat it back to them. Then refute it. But when you make it appear that you didn't really pay attention to anything and you don't address what people say, and instead introduce more of your own ideas without maintaining the exchange of dialog, then someone pointing out your own failings to you will seem like *condescension*. You'll also get better responses if you use Firefox 2 or IE 6 and pay attention to the spell checker. And context. Hard to ignore the fact that you're 14 years old when you write "flower" instead of "flour".