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Originally Posted by Sirtel
How do you know the poster who used "Men" didn't mean to exclude women?
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How do you know that they DID?
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They never explained what they meant at all.
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Normally, you don't explain what you meant until after someone has misunderstood it. I realize that I am probably the exception to that rule. I often times explain as I go along by using sub texts in parenthesis or delimited by commas or dash marks. This is a bad habit on my part and I need to change it. It usually doesn't help anything since nobody appears to read the sub texts anyway and it just makes my posts overly long, confusing and boring. (I'll tell you, it was very tough for me to not add any commas, parenthesis of dashes to that last sentence - oops!, there I go again!)
