From five to seven? No, it doesn't take me very long, actually.
OK, I've proved to my own satisfaction that you don't have the integrity to
acknowledge having been wrong, even about something as trivial as this. Always
disappointing, but in your case, I'm afraid, not at all surprising.
Feste struggled:
<< You are so silly, auth. Do you spend your entire life counting?
I rest my case on my previous posts on this topic. >>
Which have been shown to be wrong. Case closed.
---In FairfieldLife@{{emailDomain}}, <authfriend@...> wrote:
Pet Peeve Watch: I. Am. Not. A. Guest.
—By Kevin Drum Thu Dec. 19, 2013 11:53 AM GMT
"I. Am. Not. A. Guest. A guest is someone I invite into my home and ply with
free food and drink. Because, you know, they're my guest. Target doesn't do
that. They sell me stuff. I pay for it. (Probably with cash from now on.) I can
complain about poor service. I can return stuff I don't like. I can choose what
I want to buy and what I don't. That makes me a customer. Not. A. Guest."
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/12/pet-peeve-watch-i-am-not-guest
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/12/pet-peeve-watch-i-am-not-guest
As I believe I mentioned earlier, Drum is a widely read and highly respected
political blogger. Sorry, Feste, but if he is so insistent about using the
period-after-every-word convention for extra emphasis, it has to be considered
standard, at least for blogs. You may not like it, and that's fine, but you
can't pretend it's some bizarre anomaly (or that I made it up, as Barry
claimed).
