• queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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      2 months ago

      It’s frustrating to translate from what they said to what they mean. It’s more effort on my part and this is my free time, I don’t want to work.

      Just communicate as clearly as you can.

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        2 months ago

        This seems like such a strange take. You make it sound like it’s cost you effort to translate the error, but how are you quantifying that effort? If effort efficiency is something you’re striving for, it doesn’t feel like it makes sense to correct the mistake (which costs effort to do)

        The gap between the two - what they said and what they meant - seems so small it probably took more “work” to correct them.

        I’d go as far as to say that the work to correct them will never be repaid by the saved effort of not having to encounter this particular mistakes from this particular person ever again.

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          2 months ago

          It’s more effort than a straight read.

          I didn’t correct anyone, by the way. I’m just a different person griping about how much it sucks to have to communicate with people who don’t care about being understood.

          And you’re right, correcting people is even more work! So on top of the work of translating their stupid post we now have to tell them they were wrong so they don’t do this to us again. If they aren’t ever corrected they’ll just keep being wrong and we’ll have to keep translating their posts.

          The alternative is to block them so we never see their posts ever again, which honestly is a better idea. It not like we’re missing out.