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		seoaeu on June 24, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Advice for academic refugees I think of it as jeopardy rules: any time you are correcting someone you must phrase it as a question. If they’ve made a mistake, it lets them save face. And if you are actually wrong, you save face

dekhn on June 24, 2022 [–]

haha, I like that. TBH I'd really just prefer to ask them what the windspeed of a laden swallow was, and send them down into the pit.

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