"Dumb questions" (was Re: FP MF Laser Printers - Dave in Port Orange)

[Kenneth Brody]

On 1/11/2017 4:02 PM, Fairlight via Filepro-list wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 03:11:52PM -0500, Jose Lerebours via Filepro-list thus spoke:
>> I have no problem with asking dumb questions as I believe it would
>> be worst to pretend knowing and miss the opportunity to learn
>> something.
>
> I'm not even sure I have a problem with people asking 'dumb' questions.
> Theoretically, the axiom says that there are no dumb questions.  I'm not
> sure I buy into that 100%, but...  In any event, asking dumb questions,
> okay, cool.  I think it's more irritating to me when people either don't
> recognise that they should know something already, or that they don't
> accept that they screwed up.  That's when I start getting irritable,
> especially if they pull an attitude after they get a helpful response, even
> if it had a bit of bite to it.
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There's a difference between "asking a dumb question" and "asking a question 
in a dumb way".

-- 
Kenneth Brody