When I am trying to illustrate displeasure in an email to someone I don't know very well, I get this sort of pseudo-legalese disease. I state shit over and again in different ways, trying to make it perfectly clear what's wrong, while moderating what I'm saying with 'It looks like' and 'So it's sort of' so it doesn't come across as someone metaphorically raging at the screen. I also hastily edit what I'm writing and find it unpleasant to read back, so what I eventually send is a garbled, repetitive, moderated mess that comes across like a mild-mannered middle aged parson with a stammer trying to rebuke a punk for her hairstyle while still trying to seem like a nice guy who's all right really.
So it doesn't help that I'm locked in a dispute with an eBay seller who writes in half English, half l33t, and most of the time seems to be lying through his t33th when he does.
Give 'em he11.
I encounter the same problem when I get into disagreements on the Internets. Someone argues something completely irrational, but I don't want to just say "you're being irrational." Even when the truth is "that's the worst bit of anti-logic I've ever encountered." I want to dance around it and hope the point sneaks through that maybe, possibly, could they - if it's not an inconvenience - figure out that I know they're an imbecile with four barely functioning brain cells.
But I feel like I'm starting to border on "get off my lawn" territory, so it might be time to just start calling out when necessary.
Also...
"Give 'em he11" made me laugh out loud. Thanks.
oh good, i'm not the only one.