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- From: mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran)
- Subject: Re: Nyikos, Apologies and Humble Pie
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.053738.14705@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- References: <1993Jan22.205437.15431@pwcs.stpaul.gov> <1993Jan23.182034.18718@rotag.mi.org>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 05:37:38 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan23.182034.18718@rotag.mi.org> kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan22.205437.15431@pwcs.stpaul.gov> chrisl@stpaul.gov (Chris A Lyman) writes:
- >>
- >>>> Btw, your apology to Ms. Regard is long overdue.
- >>
- >>> I don't apologize for things I don't do.
- >>
- >>
- >>Perhaps you should reconsider.
- >>
- >>Did you not write the following Subject: line ?
- >>
- >>*** Subject: A forgery by Adrienne Regard?!?!?!?!? (was: Stipu..)
- > ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
- >Questions are not the same as declarations.
- >
- In written messages, punctuation like ?!?!?!?! is often used to
- indicate such emotions as shocked amazment. But I'm sure you knew that
- already Kebbin.
-
- >>And did you not write the following?
- >>
- >>*** I mean, your forgery, if it could be called that, ...
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >Again, Nyikos implicitly raises the QUESTION of whether what Adrienne
- >committed could be called a "forgery".
- >
- He raises only the question of if forgery is the correct term for
- words he obviously thinks she faked in one way or another.
-
- >At no point did he come out and say "Adrienne committed forgery", although,
- >as I have previously noted, he was extremely loose with his language. He
- You mean, sort of like somebody who would defend the usage of the word
- 'schizophrenia' when he meant 'multiple personality disorder'? That's
- a fine example of being 'extremely loose with [his] language' wouldn't
- you say?
-
- [Kebbins delusions about Adrienne deleted]
-
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