TurquoiseB wrote: > YES this is a silly nitpick. > So, you're saying that nitpicking is NOT against the rules by *your* standards.
> Uh, Judy...using your *own* standards, aren't > you insinuating above that either Jim or MDixon > used the phrase "stab in the back?" > > You put it in quotes, after all. AND, you did > so just after using quotes *fairly* "properly" > (that is, accprding to the rules in Judy Stein's > Big Book Of How To Write Gud) to *misquote* > MDixon, who really said "invested in *the* > failure," not "invested in failure." If you > were doing the quote properly, you should have > said "invested in ... failure," indicating with > the elipses that you had left out one or more > words. > > *By your own standards*, what you attributed to > MDixon was technically a misquote of what he > said. *By your own standards*, what you attributed > to someone -- either Jim or MDixon -- was a made- > up quote of your own, something that neither of > them said or probably ever imagined. > > If it had been *me* you were having this dis- > cussion with, and I had done what you just did, > you would have been screaming to high heaven right > now accusing me of maliciously claiming that you'd > said something you didn't. > > You would have put this down to my long-estab- > lished disregard for truth and honesty, and to > my obvious malevolent intent towards you and my > desire to portray you negatively here on FFL. > And then you would have whined for a couple of > more paragraphs, doing a smashing rendition of > the Poor Me Blues. > > But it's *OK* when you do it. Right? > > Rules of punctuation usage and rules of "argu- > mentation ethics" are only for *other* people. > They don't *apply* to you. Right? > > And yes, for the others here who are rolling > their eyes and thinking of Sal's song (nice work > on that, Sal...more creativity and originality > of thought in one post than Judy has displayed > in 13 years), YES this is a silly nitpick. It's > *insane* for me to claim that Judy meant to > attribute the phrase "stab in the back" to > either Jim or MDixon, just because she put it > in quotes. > > So why isn't it insane when she claims the same > thing about me and Vaj? >
