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Personally I've always thought that trying to communicate intelligibly was an act of kindness.

Not trying to communicate intelligibly isn't exactly unkind, but it does tend to make people feel left out. It's sort of like speaking in a language that not everyone at the table understands.

No offense intended. I just don't understand why anyone who takes the time to write for others' "ears" wouldn't take care to make themselves understood.

Yes! Sorry, that was unintendedly unintelligible! Fixed.

Wait - - there was a Baltic fish fest at CMAA? I totally would have been there, if only I had known...maybe next time...

Stick with Beatles references and I will prob get them.
Yes, bring on the humor!
I am especially in need, after kidney stone surgery.

This, too, shall pass.

BADDA BOOM!

MaryAnn, feel better, but don't laugh too hard, that might smart a little. Melo, when I don't understand you, I know that everything is okay. It's when I do understand you without any clarification that I worry. ; )

Personally I've always thought that trying to communicate intelligibly was an act of kindness.

Not trying to communicate intelligibly isn't exactly unkind, but it does tend to make people feel left out. It's sort of like speaking in a language that not everyone at the table understands.

No offense intended. I just don't understand why anyone who takes the time to write for others' "ears" wouldn't take care to make themselves understood.

Such a kindness for going out of your way to roundly insult Melo for his wordsmithing, when you, yourself, are fond of digging deep into the language bucket at times in your work and your messages.

Honestly, you repeatedly bring to mind certain teaching sisters from my childhood, not always a pleasant thought.

Melo's light-heartedness when dealing with tough subjects is a breath of fresh air in what can be a stuffy forum - let's not berate him and cut off his oxygen.

No rulers, a principal, Sr. Carmela who disciplined first graders by taking by the shoulders and shaking them violently

Of course, expecting a teaching sister to deal with behavior problems in a class of 45...send them to Sr. Carmela.

Unfortunate to beat up on kids who would rather sit quietly at their desk reading books in their lap...until it was discovered in the late 3rd grade that the student was not inattentive, the student was totally unable to see the blackboard....glasses solved that.

I had one teacher treat me badly. Thankfully, I had a father who wasn't cowed and called her on it. All children should be so blessed.

Lest you think I was a coddled child...he was also quite capable of explaining to me the error of my ways when I was in the wrong. (which happened occasionally...a saint I am not.)

To those who decided to smack Charles down for sharing something humorous...get over yourselves already. If you don't understand something...then just move on. You aren't impressing anyone.

Melo, I've taken the call for humor to heart.
Have you read through my (what might be...) outlandish scenarios on Ben's thread?

The nuns - very few were nuns but sisters - I have encountered fell into two camps. They were either wonderful, or genuine misfits who landed in the Church because no one else would put up with them. Fortunately, most were in the wonderful camp.

I am retired from teaching but still maintain close relationships with my former students. They are great kids and if they had problems with teachers, it was because those teachers would not let them be kids.

Admin's let me know that it is a preference to let threads unravel and disappear on their own, and that's fine.
I very much appreciate that even my detractors recognize that I'm an "odd duck," but one with skills of communication that straddle the orthodox/unorthodox divide. I've never had anyone associate me with ADHD, but I take the point.
I appreciate even more those who look beyond my personality "flaws" (as if I act the fool like Laughton's Quasimodo in the HUNCHBACK) and try to know my heart as well as my mind.
All I can say now is that joy, thanksgiving and that residue of a beautiful week are gone. Yes, words must stand and count for something, and I had to learn at a very early age that comedy could charm and disarm stress and fury among children at school, "sticks and stones" and all that.
I just don't understand the need to hurt people with words, albeit in their "best interest" presumably with charity as a rationale.
We will never amount to the unified voice of reason and right if we, ourselves, cannot suffer each other as Christ commanded us, and see Him in each other and accept them as they are.
I've had friends from the loyal opposition contact me over the years and say "You know you come across like a jerk." Those same folk also let me know that's basically how they view we of CMAA in general. When we throw sand (or as DA says "poo") at each other in our own sandbox, what are we to expect if it's obvious we prefer to cannibalize each other, than to tolerate each others foibles?
And as I bow out of this thread and a relationship, I'll do what I do and quote the fictional Forrest Gump, "And that's all I have to say about that."

I don't think you come across as a jerk, Melo. I think you come across as extraordinarily sensitive.

I think Noel comes across as an angel on your bad shoulder...

This whole thread is full of face-palm.

You are allowed to use the word Devil on this forum.

Not sure what the correct term is.

"The guy who wants to magnify and distort well-intentioned advice from a friend into A YELLOW STAR or, alternatively, THE EVIL SR. CARMELA" just doesn't have the required pithiness for the interwebs.

So keep trying to help there, Noel, you're doing great so far.

Haha, fair point.