"that happens to everyone" .. i can't possibly imagine .. but then we dont constitute a very unbiased sample of the population do we! cant imagine there cant be something worse than making a complete fool of yourself while not trying to.. there are of course who strive to do so :-)
Well, I could tell you stories that you can't seem to imagine :) but probably not around a zillion pseudonyms :) Perhaps IRL.
cant imagine there cant be something worse An extra negative here, or did you mean what it parses out to be? :) In any case, I think, at some level, everyone's always making a fool of himself to some audience, and the only issue is what impact it has :) Not reading a line at the optometrist, oh phooey :)
I sincerely don't get it. If the doctor indeed wanted her to read the lines why did he not ask her to do so when he heard the reply "Yes"? That probably means he took her "Yes" to mean that she could read those lines.
i guess it has more to do with the inherent ambiguity in the language. "can you do blah" can be perceived as a question of ability and need not necessarily elicit an actual response.
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Oh, come on, that happens to everyone! :) (You should reserve the word "incompetence" for worse things :)
"that happens to everyone" .. i can't possibly imagine .. but then we dont constitute a very unbiased sample of the population do we!
cant imagine there cant be something worse than making a complete fool of yourself while not trying to.. there are of course who strive to do so :-)
Well, I could tell you stories that you can't seem to imagine :) but probably not around a zillion pseudonyms :) Perhaps IRL.
cant imagine there cant be something worse
An extra negative here, or did you mean what it parses out to be? :) In any case, I think, at some level, everyone's always making a fool of himself to some audience, and the only issue is what impact it has :) Not reading a line at the optometrist, oh phooey :)
I sincerely don't get it. If the doctor indeed wanted her to read the lines why did he not ask her to do so when he heard the reply "Yes"? That probably means he took her "Yes" to mean that she could read those lines.
Now don't bring on the "one word reply" fundaes.
i guess it has more to do with the inherent ambiguity in the language.
"can you do blah" can be perceived as a question of ability and need not necessarily elicit an actual response.
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