sagg writes:
Why are you being so defensive?
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All I stated was factual responses to your post. I didn't start off my post going, "OH Boy....", in an attempt to make you feel inferior - as if your ideas were pathetically inadequate. Yet, your first reply is a direct assault on my credibility - which you know nothing about. Why should I answer your questions if you can't extend the smallest amounts of common courtesty and respect towards a stranger?
EvC Forum moderators try to keep discussion focused by encouraging contributors to avoid personal comments, but while "Oh boy" is an exclamation with several possible meanings, none of them are denigrating to my knowledge. I'm not sure a denigrating personal comment would fit the context anyway. Are you perhaps thinking of the racist application of the term "boy", or perhaps the diminutive application of "boy" by which some adults might address a child?
I think Quetzal was trying to communicate a combination of surprise and dismay at your introduction of unexpected complicating considerations. "Oh my" would not be too bad a synonym.
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