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yucky on Nov 10, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Story: “It would be career limiting..."

    English is my second language, so, I might be missing some nuance.

Indeed you are, but had I known English was your 2nd language it would have made more sense and I probably wouldn't have even corrected you since your English is very good.

tonnydourado on Nov 11, 2022 [–]

Can you elaborate what exactly is the nuance I missed?

yucky on Nov 11, 2022 | [–]

Wrong = not correct.

Telling someone they are wrong, means you know for a fact that they are wrong.

It does not mean you think they may be wrong.

It is binary.

You do not tell someone they are wrong if they may in fact not be wrong.

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