“This is counter to my current understanding”
This is excellent, enjoy your Lemmy Gold!
Thank u so far I am enjoying it.
There is also the “I don’t follow your logic” humblebrag.
“I’m not sure we’re on the same page with that concept.”
IMO only means “I disagree”, and implies much more a difference of values than of cognitive capacity.
Have you tried looking at it from a different perspective?
When it sounds stupid but idgaf: Sounds good!
When it sounds stupid and igaf: thanks for bringing up that point! Definitely I agree with what you’re saying, but don’t think it really applies here cause… As I mentioned yesterday… Sorry if I wasn’t super clear before but…
That’s not a bad idea. However, I would propose a few small improvements to - completely different plan follows
It doesn’t translate fully to English, but I always like this one: “Have you considered giving your studies another chance?”
“That certainly sounds very … courageous”
The gate is down, but the train isn’t coming…
We need alignment on x or y will suffer.
“Yeah, I don’t know about that”
Understandable. Have a nice day
“There is a large juxtaposition between expectation and result.” Once used that when asked to give feedback on a store manager when I was a security guard.
“That’s not a reasonable [opinion/position/take/xyz] and is going to [cost us money/make us look bad/blow up in our face/etc].”
Just smile and nod slowly…