Comment by isoprophlex
8 hours ago
Indeed. There's nothing lost by rephrasing that to "Aha, good to know that you have not heard of CSS before! That means I will explain you some basics first, otherwise x and y will be incomprehensible to you."
8 hours ago
Indeed. There's nothing lost by rephrasing that to "Aha, good to know that you have not heard of CSS before! That means I will explain you some basics first, otherwise x and y will be incomprehensible to you."
Honestly I wouldn't even say that much. The point of the rule is that there's no need to call it out or even discuss the fact that you know it but they don't.
Just go straight to explaining it helpfully. Don't make the knowledge gap itself a point of discussion at all.
Still comes off as rather condescending, honestly.
Why not just explain the thing that needs explaining.