social interaction is hard, baffling interaction with someone in a group chat 

someone said something about "unicode in the 70s" and i attempted to politely point out that unicode didn't exist until 1987 at the earliest and then they started arguing, saying what i can only interpret as that because unicode intends to represent all human writing that all human writing can be considered to fall under the umbrella term unicode and just

no??? ??? ??????

when i try to explain the fact that unicode is a specific entity that did not exist before the late 80s they respond by saying i'm focusing too much on the coding and engineering side of things and ignoring the linguistics and humanities and just

that's a non-sequitur right?? i'm not missing something here????

re: social interaction is hard, baffling interaction with someone in a group chat 

@Felthry ...I got nothing. Would they agree to, like, expressing what they mean without the term "unicode"?

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re: social interaction is hard, baffling interaction with someone in a group chat 

@packbat i don't know, at this point i'm just done with the whole conversation

re: social interaction is hard, baffling interaction with someone in a group chat 

@Felthry that seems like a reasonable response

idk like all we can think is that they don't know it's a jargon term and have picked up some personal meaning of it from somewhere else - like maybe they mean non-text symbols in blocks of text or something

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re: social interaction is hard, baffling interaction with someone in a group chat 

@packbat yeah this is a person who has a bit of a history of thinking they know a lot more about things than they actually do so i could understand that

honestly we do that too

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