Freak waves are real: A lesson in objectivity

zoobyshoe

This sentence could mean that I elucidate why you consider the maritime court situation uniquely applicable to your case, or it could mean I elucidate why the maritime court situation is the single instance that you could find about this. I think that sometimes in haste you write things that you aren't aware are ambiguous to the reader.

Ivan Seeking

I mean because of the difficulty in identifying the "official scientific position" on a subject - a spectrum of beliefs with no absolute point of reference. UFO people often refer to the "giggle factor" as another measure.

zoobyshoe

Hmmm. Lets see how long you can remain ambiguous. You realize this is an incomplete sentence don't you? All I get from it is an impression of what you're talking about without knowing your actual thought.
Another measure of what?

Ivan Seeking

You seem to be missing the basic point of the conversation: The measure of acceptance of a concept or claim, and how we measure that acceptance.

I think you are just being contrary. You get like this sometimes. You start nitpicking

zoobyshoe

I'm sorry. I really don't believe it is warranted for you to call me nitpicky because I don't know what this sentence fragment means. Don't burden your readers with impressionistic half thoughts, and ambiguous whole thoughts. Just write clearly.

Ivan Seeking

Zooby you need to understand that I don't understand why my meaning is unclear. You then take a much more agressive posture and I have no idea why.

Why do you start with the insults?
This is what puts me on the defense. Honestly, on rare occasion you seem downright insincere to me. This is one of them. This has happened from time to time ever since you first showed up at this forum. I assume that this is not the case but I certainly don't understand why you start getting nasty with me.