Might have something to do with people coming to the same line with different priors? E.g., based on coming from different points on the ask-guess spectrum, or from different varieties of ask/guess. For a combination of reasons—such as “it’s rude to outright assert that you’re an authority, so people regularly have to imply it and talk around it,” and “it’s just not that common for people to have zero interest/stake in a conversation, or to deliberately avoid pushing for their interest”—it’s not surprising that some people’s prior is skewed toward other interpretations, such that you need to very heavy-handedly and explicitly clarify what you mean (possibly even explicitly disavowing the wrong interpretation) before you can shift those people away from their prior.
Priors just feel like how the world is, though; it’s not natural (and often not possible) to distinguish the “plain” or “surface” meaning from the text from your assumptions about what people would most often mean by that text.
Might have something to do with people coming to the same line with different priors? E.g., based on coming from different points on the ask-guess spectrum, or from different varieties of ask/guess. For a combination of reasons—such as “it’s rude to outright assert that you’re an authority, so people regularly have to imply it and talk around it,” and “it’s just not that common for people to have zero interest/stake in a conversation, or to deliberately avoid pushing for their interest”—it’s not surprising that some people’s prior is skewed toward other interpretations, such that you need to very heavy-handedly and explicitly clarify what you mean (possibly even explicitly disavowing the wrong interpretation) before you can shift those people away from their prior.
Priors just feel like how the world is, though; it’s not natural (and often not possible) to distinguish the “plain” or “surface” meaning from the text from your assumptions about what people would most often mean by that text.