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> but look how far you’ve strayed from “If the literal string ‘we apologize’ isn’t it, what is?”

Wasn’t it clear that I changed my mind through the conversation? That’s the point for me, my goal isn’t to pick a position and claim I’m right to the end, but to learn and improve my views. Like I said:

> I agree. And rereading the email I also agree that their apology was lacklustre to say the least. Initially that seemed to be to have come from a position of authority, but I see I was wrong.

If the literal strings “I agree” and “I was wrong” don’t convey that I agree with your points and I think I was wrong, what does?

To be absolutely clear, I’m being tongue-in-cheek. I have no desire to continue this.

And to be even clearer, what I offered as a suggestion was a response to you saying there was “nothing” they could do. That’s the one part I disagree with by the end.




> what I offered as a suggestion was a response to you saying there was “nothing”

There was an if clause separating different circumstances into “nothing” and “almost anything”.

And I stand by that. If an apology is actually meant it becomes trivial to come up with the words to apologize.

Laboring over the process of apologizing is a good sign you’re trying to avoid actually apologizing.




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