I find nothing in particular to disagree with here, except your presumption that the person criticizing tone necessarily cares about what the speaker is trying to accomplish. I’ve lambasted people for “rallying the home team” before, because “rallying the home team” is irrelevant to my objectives, whereas the damage to group reputation involved was directly detrimental to those objectives.
I find nothing in particular to disagree with here, except your presumption that the person criticizing tone necessarily cares about what the speaker is trying to accomplish. I’ve lambasted people for “rallying the home team” before, because “rallying the home team” is irrelevant to my objectives, whereas the damage to group reputation involved was directly detrimental to those objectives.