--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> wrote:
> > --- In [email protected], Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> <snip>
> > > comments offending, but now I understand that your
> > > intent was not to insult me so I just chalk it up to
> > > miscmiscommunicationen this occurs between us or
> > > between anybody, the miscmiscommunications not lie in
> > > one person only ("...where does this come from inside
> > > Peter?") but is the result of the
> > > non-identical,assumptive or "meaning" generating world
> > > of both people. 
> > 
> > Or, as Vaj described the same process in two words
> > a few weeks ago, Ashkenazy overclocking.  
> > 
> > Look it up.  It's a fascinating syndrome, one that sheds
> > much light upon Internet chat boards such as this one.
> 
> Yeah, those Jews really are a nuisance, insisting
> that words be used in their standard meanings unless
> otherwise specified.  They probably wrote all the
> dictionaries too, just to make sure it's as difficult
> as possible for everybody else to say what they
> intend.
> 
> After all, it's *so* much easier to express oneself
> if one doesn't have to worry about what the words
> one uses mean to anybody but oneself.  Communication
> may suffer, of course, but who cares?  That isn't 
> important.

I thank Judy for providing a perfect example of Ashkenazy 
overclocking for those who are too busy to look the syndrome
up and read its technical definition.  That was both considerate 
and useful; an example almost always conveys things better
than a wordy definition.






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