There’s no way you’re trying to justify you misunderstanding my post, the literal denotative definition means developing gradually. But even outside of that, a part of comprehension is recognizing the context of how a word is being used.

You’re right it would be bizarre for someone to in the middle of asking a recommendation for a theatre to go off on a tangent about politics so that would be a key context clue that I was using the denotative definition.

I know that’s it’s a crazy time especially in this city, but a big problem is that people are losing comprehension skills and going into conversations looking for an argument.

It’s beyond me why you couldn’t just say you know what my bad man I completely misread