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- From: gmw1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Gabe M Wiener)
- Subject: A letter to Mandar
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.054110.27386@news.columbia.edu>
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- Organization: Columbia University
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 05:41:10 GMT
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- Mandar,
-
- I have been following this "English English" thread of yours from day one,
- and even now I am quite amazed at the new levels of absurdity that you
- have reached in your argumentation.
-
- Roger will be pleased to know that as a result of this whole thing I
- think even I, and I consider myself a linguistic conservative, have
- softened my position a bit. Mandar has spent this past month inventing
- nonexistent standards. His concept of a standard is a language spoken
- by no one. The Queen doesn't speak it. The BBC doesn't speak it.
- The majority of English speakers don't speak it. Even Mandar doesn't
- speak it. It is a murky, shadowy nothingness that exists only in
- Mandar's mind for the good of no one.
-
- Mandar, why is it that you cling to a set of standards that doesn't
- exist? You have not shown one supportable argument that substantiates
- your claim. The BBC has forsaken you. The Britons on this newsgroup
- have forsaken you. You stand alone in your absurd beliefs.
-
- Your whole position is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality,
- that to anyone with a friendly attitude toward language, it is painful
- to realize that you will never rise above this view of life. It is
- even more pathetic to understand that you cannot see that your
- position is not tenable, and that you nevertheless try to defend it
- through a series of pitiful rearguard actions.
-
- Your arguments are nonsensical. You assume your conclusions, you make
- statements that you fail to support in any substantive way. You
- change your own definitions of terminology from one line to the next.
- In short, you do not know what you are talking about. You have no
- facts. You have no science. You have no knowledge with which to
- carry on a discussion about language.
-
- Mandar, I hope you enjoy it inside that pathetic closed mind of yours.
- You will find yourself hindered in life at every turn as a result of
- your blatant stupidity and idiotic arguments.
-
- I for one have had quite enough of the fecal material that oozes out
- of your mouth and nose with each posting. You needn't respond,
- as I won't be reading anything further that you care to spew.
-
- I think I speak for all serious readers of this group when I say that
- your malformed and patently preposterous opinions are not welcome here.
- We all would appreciate it if you would crawl back into whatever hole
- you came out of. I'm quite convinced that you can find other activities
- to occupy your time, such as looking at yourself in the mirror.
-
-
- --
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