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On Mar 31, 2010, at 1:55 PM, Abdul Nazeer <[email protected]> wrote: > I hate to get involved, but do you mean he "shouldn't", instead of > "can't"? Your attempt at getting your point across seemed OK in the > beginning, but now you're just making yourself look bad. My opinion > only, of course. "Can't" is an oft-used colloquial stand-in for a prescriptive "shouldn't." When the detective says, "you can't just go around lying to people," he does not mean that it it beyond the culprit's capabilities to do so. How am I making myself look bad in the course of making grammatical errors and using imprecise phraseology? Both your reply and Don's seem to suggest that the viability of my overall argument about quality differences can be assailed by undermining my credibility as a judge of those attributes, or as an example of inscrutable correctness. It's a form of ad hominem misdirection; I never laid claim to any of those things. But the fact that my writing is flawed doesn't change that some writing is better than other writing, and that this has significance. -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
