On 06/02/2019 19:11, R.Wieser wrote:
> TNP,
>
>>> Riiiight.    It was *humor* when you responded that way to Andrew
>>> Gabriel.
>>
>> Yes.
>
> No.   Maybe it sounded funny when you thought of it, but that isn't what you
> wrote.
>
> You know, for someone looking down on anyone supposedly not having a grasp
> of the English language (read: not as much as you like to think you have
> yourself) you sure bungled up there.
>
> And for the off chance that it actually /wasn't/ ment as a passive-agressive
> sneer, next time try to mark your jokes as such.   Heck, even that
> abused-to-death smiley would have sufficed.
>
>> 'Getting your knickers in a twist' is colloquial English for getting
>> emotional for no good reason.
>
> Nope, it isn't.    Well, maybe its to you, but not generally.  Than again,
> you may be trying to redefine "getting emotional", who knows.
>
>> 'Going off at half cock' would be another one.
>
> That one I've never heard of.   Than again, I'm not much of a colloquial
> verbiage student myself.
>
>>> I'm fully deferring to your mastery in the language
>>> ofcourse.
>>
>> Good.
>
> Lolz.
>
>> Indeed. Either that or a German. No fucking humour, Germans, and the
>> language is utterly literal..
>
> Ah good.  Now there are two choices.   I'm sure you can come up with a bunch
> more.
>
> Oh my gosh !  You really ment that as some kind of provocation, didn't you ?
> Must be my abysmal knowledge of the language ...
>
> Regards,
> Rudy Wieser
>
>
sigh.

Rudy. Get a fucking life.

It's not ALL about YOU.



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