LW readers are, perhaps, more cautious than average about “accepting common English phrases” because a major topic in rationality is precisely the fact that such common phrases often conceal fatal vagueness. Whether or not I agree with you that you’ve been using certain words and phrases to mean exactly what an ordinary English speaker would understand them to mean, this kind of caution surrounding ordinary language is generally considered to be a feature, not a bug, of discourse around here.
As far as the double standard thing, it seems like the one hypothesis you can’t bring yourself to entertain is that nobody can figure out what you’re talking about, despite some fairly sympathetic attempts to do so. After a few times around, everyone will have lost patience with you, yes. But that’s not a double standard. (I say this as emphatically an outsider: I don’t comment here much and no one at LW knows me from Adam.)
(Sorry in advance that I won’t be able to reply to any comments for at least 24 hours, since I’m traveling—musicology conference this week!)
LW readers are, perhaps, more cautious than average about “accepting common English phrases” because a major topic in rationality is precisely the fact that such common phrases often conceal fatal vagueness. Whether or not I agree with you that you’ve been using certain words and phrases to mean exactly what an ordinary English speaker would understand them to mean, this kind of caution surrounding ordinary language is generally considered to be a feature, not a bug, of discourse around here.
As far as the double standard thing, it seems like the one hypothesis you can’t bring yourself to entertain is that nobody can figure out what you’re talking about, despite some fairly sympathetic attempts to do so. After a few times around, everyone will have lost patience with you, yes. But that’s not a double standard. (I say this as emphatically an outsider: I don’t comment here much and no one at LW knows me from Adam.)
(Sorry in advance that I won’t be able to reply to any comments for at least 24 hours, since I’m traveling—musicology conference this week!)