Norin's quote "I may have been less eloquent, but I don't think I was less clear"

[lexi]

@steronz

I’m with you, but I think Snowboarder was making the point that lawyers will rip that blog apart.

Can you point out where Snowboarder Bo is making that point? I have re-read all his posts, although other pointed out lawyers may rip things apart, Bo’s point is she is inebriated.
He said:

@Snowboarder_Bo

I apologize for not having read every single post in this thread, but I did look for quotes from the woman’s blog, and I didn’t see where anyone had quoted what I’m about to.

And I really think it’s key to why she should not have posted this on her blog, and why the gentleman in question is unlikely to be convicted of anything.

<HER QUOTE WAS HERE>

From her description of the evenings events prior to her trip to the restroom, it seems likely that she was inebriated. She admits (the blue part) that she may not have been perfectly clear that she was rejecting his advances, but she thinks she was clear. She doesn’t know she was clear. That leaves room for doubt, both in my reading, and perhaps, in the mind of this man.

I don’t want to be appearing to excuse the crude actions, if they did indeed occur, (I can’t imagine this is a very successful pick-up tactic), but what seems clear to me is that the woman has imperfect knowledge, due to alcohol consumption, of exactly what she said and the manner in which she said it, by her own admission. Therefore, to have posted something so publicly calling the man out as having committed a criminal act, was a stupid, stupid thing to do.

Now if he was making a point, a lawyer may pick things apart it - this sure doesn’t sound like it. This sounds like he is saying a lawyer may have problems with what she said - and then goes off on a tangent about her being drunk… In a future thread he continues on about drunkeness and continues with his strange interpretation of her words.

Even if a lawyer played that game - i am sure that it would be rather easy to explain the use of language in that case and for her to tell the court exactly what she said - if a judge & prosecutor would even permit such a strange line of reasoning.

My point of this poll is not to debate the prior thread - but to point out that her quote used a common phrase, and most people would interpret this phrase in a certain way, and would guess that she meant that she said something rude.

Bo’s interpretation is a very strange interpretation - and his logical leaps that she must have been drunk are really really odd - and in order to get such an interpretation is would guess that one would have to be either fairly new to the English language or raised by literalists.