Judy, just a general response to your post. I know. You kept on saying that he (being me) doesn't intend the phrase to be understood that way. You will not be harmed when the bombing starts.
--- authfriend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], Peter > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > <snip> > > The intent of my "tacky" communication was not to > > insult the DimiDimickswever, it is quite easy to > > deconstruct the communication and logically arrive > at > > the meaning both you and Judy came to. What sticks > in > > my craw is your privprivilegingr meaning over my > > intent and then ,it seems, insisting that this is > the > > actual/real/true meaning of my communication. > > Just for da record, I explicitly said the > standard meaning of "tacky" may not have been > what you intended. > > When I posted about the dictionary definition, > though, you could have just said, "Oh, that wasn't > what I meant." You could *even* have said, "I > guess that wasn't the appropriate term for what I > did mean." > > When one uses a term that has a well-defined > meaning in common usage, that meaning is > automatically "privileged," as far as the > listener/reader is concerned, unless one > specifies that one is using it in a nonstandard > sense. > > > > > > To subscribe, send a message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Or go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ > and click 'Join This Group!' > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
