Have you ever missed the meaning of a discussion?

No, i have'nt yet experienced anything similiar to that you mentioned. I usually go through the full discussion, unless it has some copy-pasted crap attached to it. If i don't get what the user is saying exactlty, i just don't respond to it. I have'nt posted anything wrong as to mean differently, i have made very few spelling mistakes in my discussions so far, but all that were easily understandable. So, i did nothing to correct it. In case, if i do any such fatal mistakes, i'll start another similiar discussion with grammar and spelling to the best of my knowledge, it also includes an apology note at the end. But i'm not likely to do such crucial mistakes, i'm usually much keen and concentrated while posting discussions:)

I think we've all done that at least once. I've had responses that I just sat dumbfounded trying to figure out how they could have so badly misinterpreted what I've said and just had to come to the conclusion that they only read the title and not the body of the discussion. Or they missed a couple of key words that completely changed the meaning so their response comes off sounding a bit odd. I just usually chalk it up to misreading or skimming instead of reading every word. I've done it myself, and like you said feel a bit mortified after I figured out what I did. I've also read discussions, understood them perfectly, but somewhere in my response I went completely off on my own little tangent and forgot to answer the question. Usually I'll go back and add an additional comment under my original response and apologize for the misunderstanding or lack of an answer. If I let it go, I feel a little guilty, I really hate feeling guilty!! LOL

I haven't misread a post here at Mylot, but I have on a forum. I just jumped right in and apologized. People tend to be more understanding when we admit our mistakes. It takes guts and integrity to admit when we are wrong. I would just explain the situation. Surely they will understand.

*laughs* Teapot, here I thought you were intentionally adding a bit of positivity to my discussion! I was happy for your response! =P I think I've probably done that before, missed the point of a discussion, but I didn't realize it later if I did. I suppose I would probably have just left it alone unless the original poster said something about it.

I wouldn't beat myself up over it, we all are so perfect you know. lol. Everyone makes errors, and if some one takes it personally, they need to look at their own problem. I appreciate any answer I get, some people have difficulty with writing English, like me I can't spell for the life of me. and my spell check doesn't get the words that are wrong but spelled properly so I come across as an id jut. posts with proper English and proper content are great, but not mandatory at least for and from me'

One time I responded to a discussion and missed one word and it turned the whole response from something wonderful to something almost depraved. When I realized my mistake I sent a retraction and ended up getting best response. So if I were you, I would not be afraid to go and leave a little side note.

Yes I have a couple of times and when it was pointed out to me I read it again realized my mistake apologized and wrote again

Yes, it has happen to me a couple of times. English is not my primary language. I don't have any problem reading it, but sometimes I just read to fast and think that I understood the subject. But I can see that this his happening to everyone. And I think it's worst that some people, everytime, never read the story and just answer something that they shouldnt.

It happens someties friend that when you are in hurry sometimes u do not get the real meaning of the discussion, if after reading it carefully, still u don't undersatnd the meaning u can ask the person who has posted it about what he wanted to say.

I have sometimes have people miss the meaning of some of my discussions, and I admit to whizzing through a discussion and maybe not getting the full meaning of it either ...Teapotmommommerced...we're all human for goodness sakes, and none of us are perfect...if we were it be a boring world! LOL...I happen to check the discussion in question...I didn't respond to it since I couldn't relate to it. I happen to know the poster is a very nice person and very understanding, and maybe if you added to your reply that you made a mistake she'll understand--and who knows, maybe you could add to it something relevant to the discussion. Or maybe PM her??

only 1 major one when I missed the topic compleatly I was answering the question and that was ok but when I gave an eg I later saw that the topic was for another movie but came up under what I was refering to. Ok I am not making sence the qestion was which you like better the books or the movies (thinking that it was for Harry potter I said I liked the books which is ok as I generaly like any book better than any movie) but then I went and said something about movie 4 and when I send it I realised that it was under hunibal ooo.

I agree to u. Some discussions are not much clear. I need to read some again and again so that i could attach a meaning to it. For example u r style of discussing is a little bit confusing. Try to use simple english with occasional breaks. ok .Thanks.

Haha. I'm sure its happened many times to each of us. I most often blame it on my self because sometimes I can be pretty thick-headed. Sometimes I will blame it on the author (in my head) even though I know it wasn't really their fault. How that part goes is like if someone at McDonalds is acting as if they were handing your order to you when actually it was someone elses. But keeping on the main subject, after I have realized I have missed the meaning of a discussion it takes me a while to get over the embarassement. Sometimes just because I have miss understood the meaning I end up saying the most embarassing stuff. Ofcourse afterwards I do feel guilty, and it takes me forever to get over tiny things.