@John1990 said:

@ant-mac said:

@John1990 said:

It may not have been intended, but the quote unquote came across as a sneer. I take your word for it that it wasn't.

It was merely intended to help specify which part of your previous post I agreed with and which part I did not agree with. In my personal experience, it is a perfectly acceptable and reasonably widely used tool of communication.

However, on a platform where the primary form of communication is via plain text messaging, it is easy to misinterpret or misunderstand the intentions of others.

I was not bringing your grammar into question. The use of inverted commas over one specified point can denote mockery. Imagine this translated into a face to face dialogue. How would you voice your comment? With a sarcastic inflection? Would you involve hand gestures to indicate inverted commas? Perhaps not, but that is how it would be read aloud naturally. If you had put "he brought a rugged, masculine edge to the doctor" (as opposed to solely my description of the actor) in inverted commas it would have made the world of difference.

You have a good point about it being all too easy to misinterpret the intentions of others on text based communication platforms, thus an innocent comment was mistaken for a subtle form of mockery. Such is the complexity and nuance of the English language. Thank you for clarifying, I won't derail any further.

No worries, mate.

Mistakes happen.

Cheers.

Peter Davison.

I am also one of the rare people that doesn't hate Adric and thinks Tegan is great!