Some years ago, somebody hipped me to the whole Ask v Guess thing, which explained a •lot• of the communication fails I've experienced. More recently, a friend put me onto "Occult Grammar", which seems possibly even more explanatory. (The meat starts in the 2nd part, but Part 1 has some good framing, incl a link to the original explanation of Ask v Guess.)
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I often worry that I'm doing something that annoys people, at work, at home, online, on the bus anywhere... and they are just going to be annoyed but never explain to me what I'm doing that's so annoying. -
Wanted: Advice from CS teachersIt's probably a missing or extra comma, quote, or paren.
"looking for it in a calm, systematic way" after the requisite freak-out & meltdown....