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- From: kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy)
- Subject: Re: Nyikos, Apologies and Humble Pie
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.163508.23159@rotag.mi.org>
- Organization: Who, me???
- References: <1993Jan22.205437.15431@pwcs.stpaul.gov> <1993Jan23.182034.18718@rotag.mi.org> <1993Jan24.053738.14705@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 16:35:08 GMT
- Lines: 54
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- In article <1993Jan24.053738.14705@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran) writes:
- >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.
-
- Shocked amazement, confoundment, disbelief, questioning. It's rather hard to
- exactly characterize what emotion that punctuation is supposed to convey. As
- usual, I err on the side of giving the author the benefit of the doubt.
-
- >>>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.
-
- Exactly. He made a vague implication of "fakery" -- what I call "loose
- language" -- but no outright charge of forgery. I think an apology is in
- order, but not for the exact thing of which he has been repeatedly
- charged.
-
- >>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
- >>shouldn't have invoked the term "forgery" at all unless that was within the
- >>realm of possibility.
- >
- >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?
-
- No, your attempt to usurp "schizophrenia" in the popular lexicon with a
- verbose medical jargon term, is not relevant here.
-
- - Kevin
-