Sorry for the late response, but I’ve had a real life that cut down on my internet time.
Yeah, I love irony. Kind of what I was aiming at by calling you a smug dick, since that’s exactly what you were accusing me of (yeah, yeah, not in those exact words). Much like my earlier pointing out that the poster calling me sanctimonious was being just as sanctimonious in his criticism of me.
Nice of you to once again assume I was being “stupid”, though.
Good Lord. I thought that, during the middle of the night, you’d quietly climbed out of the hole you’d been digging and crept away. I had no idea you were just taking a breather before picking the shovel back up.
Daniel
Why must it be one or the other? I say it’s neither.
In this example, you’ve used the word “imply” with a degree of effectiveness: half of your intended audience understands your meaning, and the other half does not. If you could have used another word or set of words such that your entire audience would have understood your meaning without sacrificing other concerns (mellifluity, for example), then you would have communicated more effectively by using that other set of words.
As to your implication that this form of language criticism is new, I’d like to remind you that a rose by any other name smells as sweet. 
Daniel
Digging a hole? How’s that, exactly? Because you say so? Well, I say If I’m digging a hole, you’re digging your own a few feet over. Especially on the “smug” thing. And ignoring all aspects of my posts that don’t allow you to be contrarian.
And, to clarify why: he, she and they are doing the daring, not having it done to them.