@tom_forsyth @EricLengyel @joeludwig I suppose it depends on how it's said but variants of "why don't/didn't you..X?" I might mean as "This is probably obvious but why dismiss X?"

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1/ @marc_b_reynolds

@tom_forsyth @EricLengyel @joeludwig

I suppose it depends on how it’s said but variants of “why don’t/didn’t you..X?” I might mean as “This is probably obvious but why dismiss X?”

2/ @tom_forsyth

@marc_b_reynolds @EricLengyel @joeludwig

“Why don’t you just X…” implies that the (skilled) person you are asking is too dumb to have thought of obvious idea X.

A better way to phrase the question is “what happens when X…” or “what problems does doing X cause?” Implies they tried/thought of X already.

type	archive
source	twitter
date	2018-02-03
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description	@tom_forsyth @EricLengyel @joeludwig I suppose it depends on how it's said but variants of "why don't/didn't you..X?" I might mean as "This is probably obvious but why dismiss X?"