naruball said:
I hope you realize just how ridiculous this sounds. "Soon" is, like you said, a vague term. Because it's so vague, you cannot really tell someone that they were wrong. What you do need to do is to ask them to clarify what they mean by that. If you don't, and instead you make an assumption, you're simply putting words into someone's mouth. Any fair court in the world would find you guilty and not the person who used the vague term. That's how most people get away with things, i.e. by bending the truth. There's no proof that he meant the end of the year no matter what you or others consider as "soon". If you are a student and your teacher tells you that the deadline for the submission of x project is soon, you ask for clarification/a specific date even if he didn't specify himself. You don't just make assumptions and then accuse him of telling you otherwise. |
It doesn't sound ridiculous at all. This isn't a court, people are free to assume what they want, and like you said "because it's so vague, you cannot really tell someone that they were wrong". I never said anybody was wrong and I even acknowledged that I really knew he wasn't assuming anything by it. I was merely expressing what could be the reasoning behind some people's assumptions, and that if he didn't want to get irritated by other people's assumptions of what "soon" meant he should of specified it in the first place. It really isn't a big deal at all, he just didn't feel the need to specify what "soon" meant (which is understandable) and some people assumed wrong (which is also understandable).
