Today's Dilbert

[Derek Broughton]

Arwyn Hainsworth wrote:

> On 22/11/2007, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> http://dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/images/dilbert2002222371121.gif
>>
>> This very strongly reminds me of all the people in here telling me
>> what my article /actually/ meant, despite that not being what I wrote.
>> [*Amused sigh*]
> 
> 
>  *sigh*
> 
> We were not saying we knew what you actually meant when you wrote that
> article, we were saying that the way it was written led us to belief you
> meant the opposite. To put into simpler language: we misunderstood what
> you had written because of your poor understanding of the sub-context of
> the phrasing you chose.

Or more precisely, what we thought you meant was not what you meant, and not
even what we thought you meant us to think.
-- 
derek