Comment by jpgvm
3 years ago
For me atleast as an Australian this would not be considered even remotely disrespectful.
First, it's addressing the idea rather than the person.
Secondly silly isn't used to convey an idea being bad, stupid or otherwise without merit.
The way I read this is that "I think this should address why it's not built on SSE or perhaps should be redefined to be built on SSE", silly just does that with much less words.
I am reading all the replies and thinking the word silly seems to convey a different thing to different people. At least in the British context it is extremely mild.
But somehow others read it as like you said "being bad, stupid or otherwise without merit."
Yeah I'm honestly surprised too, but I'm Australian so effectively British for all intents and purposes when it comes to what language we find offensive (i.e very little lol).
"Silly" also conveys the feeling that it's probably too late to redefine this as SSE.