# Norin's quote "I may have been less eloquent, but I don't think I was less clear" **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 8, 2010, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/norins-quote-i-may-have-been-less-eloquent-but-i-dont-think-i-was-less-clear/559940 "2010-11-08T18:35:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 16
**Author:** ![lexi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lexi/32/6806_2.png) [@lexi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lexi)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/norins-quote-i-may-have-been-less-eloquent-but-i-dont-think-i-was-less-clear/559940/16 "2010-11-09T16:45:58Z")
> [@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: > [@Woman blogs about sexual assault at tech conference](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-blogs-about-sexual-assault-at-tech-conference/559766/63): > > 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. > > \ > > 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. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/norins-quote-i-may-have-been-less-eloquent-but-i-dont-think-i-was-less-clear/559940)._