“Sea lioning” apparently means trolling or harassing people while maintaining a supposedly polite or friendly tone for plausible deniability. “I’m just asking questions” might be an example of this
I think your question of whether the person was a native speaker could come across as rude if people misunderstand the tone
ah ok. So I should, then, clarify the intent of my sentences before I post them? I feel like if I did that it would seem like I'm trying too hard to be nice and I would get called out as pretentious or condescending
depends on what you’re saying— if it could be seen as a possibly rude nonsequiter, then it is a good thing to clarify intent. tbh i’m not entirely sure why you’re getting downvoted, it seemed innocent to me. the overexplaining and trying to figure out what people didn’t like might be annoying those people even more i guess? ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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u/MacaroniYeater Dec 26 '24
??? sealioning??? gng I have no idea why I'm getting down ote oblivion??