# 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:** 3
**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 8, 2010, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/norins-quote-i-may-have-been-less-eloquent-but-i-dont-think-i-was-less-clear/559940/3 "2010-11-08T19:18:06Z")
> [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](#): > > I’m with you, but I think Snowboarder was making the point that it could be open to interpretation. She didn’t say it so politely and therefore it was clearer than had she if she had simply said “get off”. It’s a manner of speech that is quite familiar to me. His exact words: > [@Woman blogs about sexual assault at tech conference](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-blogs-about-sexual-assault-at-tech-conference/559766/86): > > Normally I would agree with you, but what we have here is not fact, it’s a recollection by a woman who was inebriated. A woman who in the very next sentence admits that she may not have been clear in her verbal rebuke. The only reason I can see for her not clearly recollecting or not being clear in the first place is the alcohol she had imbibed. This calls into question both her recollection of “tried to push him off” and the action of pushing him off itself. Perhaps her “push” wasn’t much of a push: she was drunk at the time, and her memory of the incident is admittedly “not clear”. This to me sounds like he is saying - she either a.) Was to drunk to have remembered clearly b.) did not clearly articulate herself because she was drunk and is not sure if she is clear I am saying that her words would commonly be interpreted to mean - she was very clear and his interpretation is most likely wrong - due to the fact her phrasing is common place and most other people would understand it to mean that she was saying a few swear words & was very clear. --- _[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)._