On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 10:03:53PM -0600, Dan Minette wrote:

> Because you brought up an experience that differed from the experience
> of others, yet you claimed universality.

No, I did not.

> derogatory comments of the ability of the other correspondent.  Taking
> the first, straightforward, readings of those texts (your posts) one
> would arrive at the reasonable conclusion that the author of the
> texts (you) feel that those with whom he corresponds have inferior
> abilities.

Or one could arrive at the even more straightforward and reasonable
conclusion that when someone writes nonsense when they are capable of
writing something that makes sense, then I point it out, and I would
hope others would do the same.

> The reasons I'm fairly sure that you dissed Julia in a post a while
> ago (maybe 2 weeks or so) is that I was going to mention to her how
> amazed I was that she was so good at keeping discussions civil with
> folks the rest of us could not.  My memory is that I read a post of
> yours, and thought to myself, well even Julia isn't perfect (sorry
> Julia).

Dan, you've got dissing on the brain. If you can't get a new concept,
could you at least get a new word?




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