[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Of human errors

[P. Alexis Nguyen]

Carol responds:
>  "May have been excusable"? That's very generous of you! Maybe you've
>  never misread a post or misremembered canon, but I think most of us
>  have done something similar and realize that we and our fellow posters
>  are all fallible. And I had hoped that my public apology for a blunder
>  would be accepted as well-intentioned rather than greeted by flames.
>  (I do know that Sandy was angry with JKR and misdirected her anger at
>  me. I forgive you, Sandy, and understand that you're human, too. And
>  you, too, Ali, even though I still find the assertion that my blunder
>  "*may* have been excusable" a bit much.)


And you've just perfectly demonstrated why emotions are running so
high on the main list right now.

"May have" is something I use in daily speech all the time, and in an
essay/press release/whatever, I would rephrase that sentence to "your
blunder is perfectly excusable but..." or something akin to that.  I
did not here and now regret that because apparently, even on
OTChatter, emotions are running high enough to where I should watch my
phrasing since common speech won't be clear across emails.  I guess I
apologize for my unclear phrasing, but since I also thought that
spending the entire email differentiating between professional &
personal errors was clarification enough, you can take my apologies as
you will.

And I guess while I'm at it, I may as well just make apologies for any
snarky undercurrents that may be detectable here; please just take my
words as they are written.  I just woke up, and I'm a grumpy morning
person, even on a Sunday morning and with the promise of brunch on the
way.

~Ali