Seems like we're using different internets. Which i am glad about. I just wish mine had less of the negativity that's coming over from yours. Guess in the end, the people on your internet realize, it's more fun over here.

You could have expressed all of that with less maliciousness towards the person. Thank god, in my internet everyone can say whatever they want f they want. Because– and more people should remember this apparently– if i don't like it, i just turn off the internet, like grandma!

Wish all the best to you and everyone you care about in real life. I might be just a bot. You might be. We'll never know for certain. Don't let some bits mess with your feels.

In fact I went and got some references I really liked because I was hoping to add what I felt was missing from the discussion on entropy. My motivation in the end was to share my personal feeling of awe, and in a way that was accessible to the parent poster as well as other readers. How do you like that internet?

Then write it that way:

1. Remove the first paragraph, where you treat the OP like a child by telling them where it is and isn't appropriate to express their idea

2. Remove the first two sentences of the 2nd paragraph

3. Remove the clause "but you can't get that from a quip."

Now we've got the beginnings of a delicious comment! You could even garnish it at the beginning with something like "Not sure if we're talking about the same thing, but..." But you don't even really need it.

That's the difference between playing in a sandbox with others, and unwittingly kicking someone out of one.

I hope that when you try to express awe it isn't dismissed as weasel words.

I give up. Delete my account please dang. This site isn't good for my mental health.

While I cannot speak to your conclusion, I can humbly suggest to not put any credence in what some rando says on the Internet. Including myself. :-)

  Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious 
  triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank 
  with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, 
  because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory 
  nor defeat.[0]

FWIW, I didn't want or expect to harm your mental health.

> ... I can't invalidate your sense of awe.

Actually, yes. Yes, you can.

And so could I, or anyone really, given sufficiently focused vitriol.

For example, your sentence fragment "This is all weasel words" is incorrect English. "This is" should use the plural form "These are" as the subject is "words" and not "weasel", as well as the modifier "all" emphasizing plurality.

The irony of your subsequently pointing out a spelling error and then chastising the OP for same has not been lost.

Quite true. While I do not generally claim to be a grammatical wizard, I do know when I hear from one (hello Zortech-C++, it's been too long!).

If you don't mind pointing out my mistake(s) above, I would appreciate it as my goal was to exemplify the social effect of pedantic critique. Being corrected when doing same could serve as an additional benefit.

The subject was "this", referring to the comment.

By what standard of English did you reckon my post incorrect? I appreciate your effort to cheer up your parent post, and to improve my language skills, of course.

(I'm not the language usage police, though I am fussy about correctly rendering people's names.)

I didn't understand your gainsaying about invalidating awe. Whether or not the poster's awe was a real and worthwhile feeling seems to me entirely independent of my opinions.

I find your aims admirable. However, I regret to say that for me the irony, and purpose of this comment thread, have indeed been lost.

> The subject was "this", referring to the comment.

While I understand your clarification being the intent, in the original context "this" is in its determiner form and not pronoun form. Would the addition of "comment" have been included, then I believe most (if not all) readers would understand its use as the pronoun form it is often used as well as being associated with the noun form of "comment."

More important than my pedantry was an attempt to illustrate how corrections in this medium can be interpreted quite differently based on the person. As you intimate, my example did not affect you adversely (which is great BTW). How the OP responded to your original reply indicated a different effect unfortunately. I am not judging, only providing my observation.

A quote I wish I knew much earlier in my life is:

  A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with 
  constant use.[0]

0 - https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/washington_irving_384249

Please stay, otherwise the rest of us are stuck with the alternative (which essentially someone saying "read this wikipedia and Schrödinger original talks", with a perplexing pile of unhappyness, pretending to correct things that you didnt get wrong)

I could leave if you like