[self-deprecating posts] Oh, come on. Show me that in the post here, or even others recently. Not in some other post from last spring/summer...
It was the accumulation of such posts/expressions, in various fora, over time, INCLUDING spring/summer that had me wondering. I'm sorry if I seemed to ignore hard-fought progress on your part. I didn't mean to belittle your efforts, and I'm sorry it came across that way.
FWIW, it wasn't simply posts in YOUR journal to which I referred however--it was stuff I saw in other journals, in other media, and some of the interactions that I heard about (yes, my bad for going--even partially!--on hearsay) in recent weeks. So while there isn't much of this in YOUR journal per se, there is more there in a general way, and it was to that I referred.
"I suppose I should have feared as much, given some interactions last week" is better
Well... better, but still missing the point to some degree. The issue is the word "should." Why SHOULD you have feared that? There's still an expectation lurking in there. To eliminate that expectation, you might try reframing it as:
"Given that most of the unanswered mail is from a particular household, I'm afraid that this communication breakdown might be due to some interactions we had in the past week."
That's all about your fear in this case, and contains no expectation of rejection. (Have I communicated this clearly? Let me know if I'm still being unclear here.) IMO you really don't need to even jump to that FEAR, but at least in that version you aren't EXPECTING to be treated poorly.
OK, the lovely lunatravels is waiting in the other room, so I'll sign off now.
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Mea Culpa, and apologies for the tone (part 2)
Date: 2004-01-04 08:28 pm (UTC)It was the accumulation of such posts/expressions, in various fora, over time, INCLUDING spring/summer that had me wondering. I'm sorry if I seemed to ignore hard-fought progress on your part. I didn't mean to belittle your efforts, and I'm sorry it came across that way.
FWIW, it wasn't simply posts in YOUR journal to which I referred however--it was stuff I saw in other journals, in other media, and some of the interactions that I heard about (yes, my bad for going--even partially!--on hearsay) in recent weeks. So while there isn't much of this in YOUR journal per se, there is more there in a general way, and it was to that I referred.
"I suppose I should have feared as much, given some interactions last week" is better
Well... better, but still missing the point to some degree. The issue is the word "should." Why SHOULD you have feared that? There's still an expectation lurking in there. To eliminate that expectation, you might try reframing it as:
"Given that most of the unanswered mail is from a particular household, I'm afraid that this communication breakdown might be due to some interactions we had in the past week."
That's all about your fear in this case, and contains no expectation of rejection. (Have I communicated this clearly? Let me know if I'm still being unclear here.) IMO you really don't need to even jump to that FEAR, but at least in that version you aren't EXPECTING to be treated poorly.
OK, the lovely