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this is discouraging, two figurative slaps in the face in one week. 

Actually slaps were not planned. "Nothing personal, only business." 

We (E&O team) have to be pedantic.

Blaming translation really? 

Not to worry, I'll stay away from editing anything... 

You pretty much said it wasn’t Cristi‘a fault, but an old PA bug. Cristi checked he had done nothing wrong, which would normally seem unnecessary- but after having been “told off” for making a simple name change recently, it is understandable.

The reply to his checking he had done nothing wrong was “not so sure about that” or something along those lines. Which is ridiculous enough, but then went on to say you might need to “re-fix” all Cristi’s updates. If you can’t see the problem is on your side, not Cristi’s, that’s on you, and maybe you need to read back and see how you could have communicated better.

As for blaming it on translation and language differences, while that can be an issue elsewhere on the forum, I agree it is a cop out here. But given that came from the same person who believes bigotry, prejudice and discrimination are not universal, that is hardly surprising. That is why white South Africans calling non white South Africans kaffirs wasn’t actually racist. It was merely lost in translation.

let's move on, there's no reason to carry on with this further. 

Honestly, I don’t really have a problem with what you said, so much as the other. And, yes, I am well aware you had nothing to do with the name change debate. You wisely stayed out of that one! 🤗

But if my post made you think about what you said, and how you could have said it differently, then that is cool. It means it was a worthwhile post.

I know you don’t have a problem about re-fixing anything, and if you did that would be a problem in itself. Again, it was the way you worded it. Whether intentional or not, both times you (probably inadvertently) replied in a manner that could easily be inferred as dismissive and critical. You were trying to help, I’m sure, but you came across in a very different way. Or, at least, Cristi took it in a very different way, and I could understand why he had.

It is not that you have ever said anything wrong, or bad, per se. It has been the choice of words.

Honestly, I have never had a problem with anything you have said, personally.

As for the very first question you asked, about your very first words, no - I saw no problem there at all. And neither, it seemed, did Cristi, it was only after he was checking it was not because he had done anything wrong, that things went awry.

[EDIT] As aforementioned, personally I have no problem with what you have said at all. But if I were the type to take offence easily (not that I’m suggesting that Cristi would be normally, and I think it was because he was still reeling from the slap in the face he got from the name change - which, again, I know had nothing to do with you), I could have felt that you suggesting I read from the beginning was patronising and/or condescending. I didn’t, because you have made it obvious that you are someone who likes to safe than sorry, and would rather (re)emphasise something already said, than assume someone has actually read it. But that was the problem when you said “not sure” after Cristi checked he had done nothing wrong, and then repeated what you had already said. Again, that wasn’t wrong, and I wouldn’t have taken offence at it. I don’t even think Cristi would have normally, either. But it could be taken that way.