I was trying to draw a distinction between what Dale meant when writing it (which I don’t claim any problem with), and what people reading it might think was meant. Given that I wasn’t the only person who thought that the comment read problematically, it wasn’t just my failure to interpret: there was something suggestive in the wording. I was trying to explain what that feature of the wording was, as well as how it might be avoided by adding an extra statement that Dale agrees with.
Hi Austen,
I was trying to draw a distinction between what Dale meant when writing it (which I don’t claim any problem with), and what people reading it might think was meant. Given that I wasn’t the only person who thought that the comment read problematically, it wasn’t just my failure to interpret: there was something suggestive in the wording. I was trying to explain what that feature of the wording was, as well as how it might be avoided by adding an extra statement that Dale agrees with.