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George Duke wrote:

Typically Fergus has a difficulty with literalism, common to programmer or too much programming.

It has come to my attention that maybe George meant the opposite of what I interpreted this to mean. I thought he meant a difficulty understanding literal expressions, whereas maybe he meant that I tend to be literal. That actually makes a lot more sense, since I am very literal, and literalness probably is common to programmers, because programming requires precision of expression. If I miss a semicolon, misspell a function name, or get the order of some arguments wrong, the program won't work right or might even not work at all. In general, even outside of programming, I try to express myself with precision, choosing the words that best express what I actually mean. So, I generally expect people to say what they mean, but that is probably an unreasonable expectation to always hold others to. It is clear that George expresses himself very differently than I do. Being as different as we are, there are liable to be misunderstandings from time to time. So I apologize for getting irate and banning George over this. Ban revoked.