# Can anybody easily understand Leo Bloom?

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**Created:** [June 16, 2018, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anybody-easily-understand-leo-bloom/816203 "2018-06-16T14:04:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2018, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anybody-easily-understand-leo-bloom/816203/34 "2018-06-16T22:52:01Z")

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In the thread in question, the first two posters who responded, including ITD, politely asked Leo to clarify what he was asking. But rather than actually try to be clearer, he gave this perfectly asinine response. He not only is snarky, he responds by just referring people back to his OP.

> [@Thread Games: Have the kind "questions" within threads, and responses, become more personal?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-games-have-the-kind-questions-within-threads-and-responses-become-more-personal/816096/23):
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> Tell me which sentences you don’t understand. Start with the subject line, which, yes, misses the word “of” before “questions.” Yes, the word “about”–doesn’t match “regarding”–but it was a lapse because “asked” and “answered” really should be handled differently, but the whole “asked-and-answered” is considered (roughly here) as one set, and I would not let that slide in formal composition.
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> The first poster asked this, which allowed the usual slow readers to pile on and have fun:
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> “Are you asking if questions and answers in thread games are revealing more personal information than they used to?..”
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> Asked: See the large type sentence with the question mark. It announce the query, and the rest of the OP. Even if there is not a single query mark in the rest of the post. I’m sorry if the missing “of” tripped you up.
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> “Are you concerned, intrigued, or delighted by this change?”
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> Answered: Did you read or understand the last sentence of OP?

Now I can understand him being annoyed by some of the other joking responses, but this kind of reply is totally counterproductive.

Later he says this, which demonstrates he can communicate clearly if he tries to (or maybe if he doesn’t try to be deliberately complicated):

> [@Leo Bloom](#):
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> We talk often here about the way people interact on the board. I’m wondering if any of the old timers here have seen a change within Thread Games in particular.

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