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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
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We all know that there's many people who use "real book" innocently (or at the very least ignorantly). Context is everything. [...]
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Which is how these conversations sometimes get so convoluted. The post you quoted was responding to the comment "That's insulting, no matter the context."
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Isn't the converse true as well?
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And to come back to your initial question. No, in my opinion the converse is not true. Firstly, nothing I've said denies the existence of people people who may intend "real book" in a "real" vs "fake" sense, but whether I should feel insulted by such intention is an entirely different matter anyway.
Being primed to receive insult means raising argument where there may not be any need. It means possibly misconstruing perfectly innocent sentences and derailing entire conversations all because of some need to exert one particular view of the world, some particular way of phrasing oneself.
Whereas failing to recognise an intended insult (if it was truly intended) typically just annoys the one sending the insult, the person on the receiving end continues in the bliss of ignorance. I don't see anything wrong with offering the benefit-of-the-doubt and interpreting "real book" in the sense that I might use it myself, it does me no harm.