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I need to email someone that his reply doesn't truly answer the questions in my original email. 1 below appears too brusque, and would insult and offend:
Sorry, but your reply doesn't appear to answer my question.
2 will less likely offend but it appears, and makes me appear, disingen...
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Hanlon's razor is an aphorism expressed in various ways including "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." It recommends a way of eliminating unlikely explanations for a phenomenon (a philosophical razor).
As an eponymous law, it may have been named after Robert J. Hanlon. There are also earlier sayings that convey the same idea dating back at least as far as Goethe in 1774.
== Origins and etymology ==
Inspired by Occam's razor, the aphorism was popularized in this form and under this name by the Jargon File, a glossary of computer programmer slang. In 1990...
An autocracy is a system of government in which supreme power (social and political) is concentrated in the hands of one person, whose decisions are subject to neither external legal restraints nor regularized mechanisms of popular control (except perhaps for the implicit threat of a coup d'état or mass insurrection). Absolute monarchy (such as Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Brunei and Swaziland) and dictatorships (such as Cuba, China, and North Korea) are the main historical forms of autocracy.
In earlier times, the term "autocrat" was coined as a favorable feature of the ruler...
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Background
I am quite a forgetful person and will frequently tell the same story, or make the same statement, more than once.
This usually occurs when I will see or hear something and that will trigger me to say whatever it is that I am thinking.
An example of this might be:
Me: *Sees footb...-1
