because, sometimes:MiniGrift wrote:why not just have a little faith in me and assume that I know what I am doing
(and reversely).MiniGrift wrote:It would obviously be inconvenient for her to ask, wait for you to answer, her to ask, wait for an answer etc.
Also, when I take the time to type lengthy posts,
please assume that I don't believe you to be a total moron,
but please rather assume that this is because I believe to have identified some kind of misunderstanding that requires some kind of clarification.
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Agreed. But how could someone know that he understood something wrongly?MiniGrift wrote:do you not think that if we fail to understand something, or if we seek knowledge on something, that we might simply ask for an explanation or extra details to 'fill the gap' in our knowledge?
When I didn't identify that I did not understand something, strange (frustrating) consequences happened.
When these consequences testified that a misunderstanding happened, better take the time to explain.
IMO, better state the obvious, because experience showed too often that what one would take as obvious was not that obvious for someone else.
This is especially true as we hardly know each other, and as our dialogue is very limited by the slow posting rate.
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Ongoing example:
Smiley placed us in a situation to bargain for goods.
He did not provide any hint about the fair price for the goods we're seeking.
We cannot guess what is the fair price of the goods that we're looking for. We cannot guess whether it is typical to cut prices off by 5% or by 50%.
Smiley knows that we cannot make these guesses, but he had not provided the information. Therefore, I assumed (wrongly?) that it is part of the RolePlaying to guess how much we can bargain.
This is when I started to bargain hard, like I've done in third world countries, rather than asking what was the fair price.
Note: in my home country, fixed price is the norm, bargaining is the exception.
Then Smiley and myself realized that we did not understand each other, so we had to edit our posts.
Fair enough. Not every student is supposed to have an experience of bargaining in Thirld World countries.
In order to avoid editing again the main thread, I provided as much explanations as I can in the OOC thread.
Was I wrong? Should I have kept assuming that everyone in Group 34 knows how to bargain?
Or was I too pedantic?