This was written by me in another thread, and it pertains to a burning question I have, which is this:Why can I not comprehend the position of a person based on their reply if it lacks certain descriptors like "Yes", "No", "Do", "Don't", "Can", "Can't".
Is the world now so hell bent on political correctness and equality, and against so many things like racism and anti-religious sentiment and sexist vocabulary, that now everybody is watching what they say to such an extent where getting a straight forward answer is like a politician telling the truth IE; not likely to happen.
I have begun to see lately that I have a tendency to narrow people down on things, they almost always will speak or answer so ambiguously that I have to wheedle and cajole and question to pinpoint their meaning and that actually irritates those people sometimes, then I come off looking like an antagonist more often than not.
Have we lost the ability to be direct and open about what we think on subjects, due in part to the worlds changing view of the way we speak about different societal cliques.
I mean that I wonder if people become self-censured more so if talk is about another's personal feelings and/ or so-called "hot"/ "taboo" topics.
In a similar vein, I often feel my threads die because people misinterpret my wording as sarcastic or obfuscatory or even confrontational, though really I just have to ask when I don't understand something, maybe I should have been a reporter Ha-Ha, but it really can often seem like I ignore feeling in trying to get at the crux of the matter...
But I am beginning to drift off topic now so I shall close and await responses (which I invariably will not understand LOL)