----- Original Message ----- From: "John D. Giorgis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 10:26 PM Subject: Re: Venezuela
> At 10:16 PM 4/20/02 -0500 Julia Thompson wrote: > >Gratuitous attacks, maybe, but not *all* of the criticisms levelled here > >are gratuitous attacks. Some of them are well-reasoned arguments, > >actually, and I'm glad to be able to read them. > > Ok, so it was well-reasoned bashing. > > :-) John, Why invent a new definition of bash? I searched a number of on line dictionaries, and found their definitions to coincide with mine. One sample is from http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=bash Informal. To criticize (another) harshly, accusatorially, and threateningly: "He bashed the... government unmercifully over the... spy affair" (Lally Weymouth). Dan M.
