Re: Are tech writers inherently snobby?

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

Assuming that Karen's interpretation of the emails she received was correct, I 
think the "conflating event" was the decision of their senders to send private 
replies to open posts.  Unless there is some reason to believe that the senders 
chose this route because they believed that open replies might be embarressing 
to Karen, for them to think that she would actually have some interest in being 
insulted or otherwise offended by them in private in a manner they would not be 
willing to have seen by all sounds to me like the height of arrogance.

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ned Bedinger" <doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com>
 > The OP who got arrogant emails seems to be conflating arrogance with
> something like "aggressiveness" -- what I get from the problem
> description is that if you interact with an arrogant person, you will be
> slimed by the offensive presumptuousness and pretentiousness of their
> attitude, which they actively export, to the dismay of every schlemiel
> who crosses their path.

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