There’s a meme:
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Unfortunately, the Society would be great in the following conditions:
- If things would always be updated in time;
- If there were no possible misunderstandings from the communicator;
- If there were no possible misunderstandings from the receiver;
- If every possible unspecified thing were clear.
Sometimes, by asking obvious questions with obvious answers, you get surprising answers.
I wouldn’t be so hard on people making sure they understood correctly.
Sometimes, you can ask stupid questions and get smart answers.
When someone asks you „How’s the weather in Năvodari?”, surprisingly!, they might not care about the weather itself.
„I trust I make myself obscure” – from the play „A Man for All Seasons”
A favorite quote of Nicolae Steinhardt.
People might ask obvious questions to get non-obvious answers.
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