On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 02:59:01PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > On Sunday 17 February 2013 at 20:42:07, Reindl Harald wrote: > > "which fool has written" was not and is not offending > > > > in EVERY situation in real life the question to the quote you stripped > > would have been clearly "Welcher Trottel hat dann die Feature-Page > > geschrieben" in my native language, even if my boss himself did it > > and even knowing that he did it i would ask him in this way > > +1 > > Living in Vienna too, I can confirm this. The problem with cultural differences which writen communication exacerbates is not what you meant to say but how people receive it. I can treat my friends of assholes and laugh about it, I can treat you of dum and you will feel insulted. So if someone complains about the way you communicate, sometime you can say "come on, that's not what I meant and you are kind of really putting words in my mouth" but sometime you have to say (especially if several people complained at repeated occation) "sorry, I did not meant to be offensive and I'll try to work on my wording". “I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.” (Robert McClosey apparently) Pierre -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
