billsfan said:
Come on man, I'm not trying to make a federal case, but also I will not be portrayed as something I'm not.
I put that up there, having Googled it, because the word that you used seemed pretty strong, considering I had no animosity toward you whatsoever. I went to look it up to make sure that the word was indeed as strong as I thought, and I posted it because I thought perhaps you didn't realize how strong a word it was as well.
BTW - I look up words all the time to make sure I understand their actual import. I've been speaking English now for roughly 46 years. I rarely assume because I have been wrong too many times in the past.
For example, the other day I used the word "surreptitiously" thinking that it meant something like "finding something by accident." Something didn't hit me right though, so I Googled the word and found out that it meant "acting or doing something clandestinely." That was not what I was trying to portray with my words. I realized actually I meant "serendipitously".
When you said I was acting with animosity, I had to look up the word to make sure I understood the full import, and then I presented it in my post in order to refute that I was responding with animosity
