The fact that you don’t understand why he doesn’t understand makes me understand that in this whole conversation you’re the person with the greater misunderstanding.
Or, actually he understands just fine but chose to say he doesn't understand as a way to protest something he disagrees with. There's a chance you understood that and just wanted to try and be snarky though, isn't there? Such a valuable contribution!
How can you truly not understand from context? I mean, you guess merge, which indicates you do understand the point being made, but just strongly disagree with the language for some reason.
If you truly didn't understand, you wouldn't have been able to suggest your preferred language use of 'merge' instead.
Wait, I did not suggest anything, I quoted that sentence from the article which mentioned "merge". I just understood what "merge" meant, but not "steal".
I guess that explains it, thank you for responding, and sorry about the off-topic nonsense from the other user.
To maybe try and explain, as I said earlier anthropomorphization is a pretty common writing tool, which means to treat a non-person being or object as though it were a person in limited contexts. In this case the glacier is being anthropomorphized to help describe its behavior, otherwise, sure, the use of steal wouldn't really make sense.
Of all the hills in this little pale blue dot, the decision to pick this one as the location to commit seppuku over someone else’s interpretation of an analogy not only seems wasteful, it begets the question: why?
But this is the Internet. A modern marvel built for the purpose of inflating one’s ego at the cost of others. Me included, of course.
> Of all the hills in this little pale blue dot, the decision to pick this one as the location to commit seppuku over someone else’s interpretation of an analogy
That's not at all what's happening. I just made an observation because I truly doubted how someone couldn't understand, especially when their text indicated they did.
What's weird is when people like you involve themselves for no reason at all though.
> Now, do me. Please.
How about you do us both a favor and just never reply to me again? You don't have that in you though, you're one of those need to have the last word types, so have it, so at least I can then be done with you :)
Ok. Only because I don’t want to ruin Dang’s Memorial Day weekend. Lord knows he doesn’t need yet another man-baby emailing him with complaints about some idiot on the internet making fun of him.
You'd be the one here being dealt with since you're brazenly breaking the guidelines due to your not-exactly-veiled insults, themselves a result of you inserting yourself into a mild disagreement just so you could fight in the first place. Some people, eh?
> What's weird is when people like you involve themselves for no reason at all though.
They made it so much better with a witty reply. I was just thinking this is one of my favorite HN threads I've seen in a long time. And now you've ended it with the HN trope of "I have no sense of humor but I still need to point out why I'm better than you."
