Psykout88
Psykout88 t1_jduvqi3 wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Can elephants canter or gallop? by [deleted]
I can only operate off the information available to me, just as the rest of us have to. I can't see inside your thoughts, so if there is a misunderstanding there, it's because you used too little information and improper language.
Also the person did not say elephants can't run, you keep coming back to that. They clearly stated that terms of movement such as trotting/cantor/galloping only refer to the biomechanics. Elephants can never move like that due to their size and physiology, regardless of how it might look when they are moving their fastest. The article they linked even says exactly that, they aren't running because all feet are not leaving the ground.
Furthermore it states how when moving their Center of Mass does not vertically change at speed. As a bipedal animal, I am sure you can recognize how much your mass moves up and down as you run and walk, headbob. That Mass in the elephant not moving vertically keeps them trapped to the ground, so by definition they can not run/trot/canter/gallop
Psykout88 t1_jduo3em wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Can elephants canter or gallop? by [deleted]
Okay, let me rephrase this. Also, don't private message me again, that is weird. Stop taking this personally and reflect on your approach.
When you ask a question to someone but then immediately ignore them, it's always going to have a bad look. You didn't even ask a follow-up question, you just went back to "nah I think I am right." So it has nothing to do with your curiosity and everything to do with you being unable to let go of your initial assumption into a matter you clearly don't understand.
Psykout88 t1_jduyukt wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Can elephants canter or gallop? by [deleted]
This is more likely a cultural thing rather than language thing. Your sentence structure and vocabulary are completely fine, you are just missing the nuances of how to navigate the conversation.
It's like the difference between an argument and a debate. If you are entering a conversation to change someone's mind but willing to let yours change too, that's a debate/discussion. If you are entering a conversation only to change others minds, that's an argument. It definitely looked like you were just trying argue, but obviously that wasn't the case as you just didn't have all the information and tools yet.