Hi Platt,
Yea, I think using his daughter is pathetic. Although his arguments often sound like teenage rebellion. Marsha On Jul 27, 2010, at 9:44 AM, [email protected] wrote: > Your entire bloviated, smoke-filled, what-my-daughter-thinks excuse boils > down > to, "I made a mistake." I leave it to the jury to judge your credibility. > > > > On 27 Jul 2010 at 9:23, ARLO J BENSINGER JR wrote: > > [Platt] > By all means let's not be bogged down by standards. Let's not bother if Junior > says 2 + 2 = 22 or writes without punctuation, but give him an A for > creativity. > > [Arlo] > See, its this type of ridiculous dishonesty that really makes you look like a > fool. Let's see, if my child saw a misprint in a paper that went "2 # 2 = 4", > and she was able to figure out from the context that "#" should have been "+", > yes, I'd say that makes her MUCH SMARTER than the idiot who writes the paper > demanding a retraction because "#" is a grammatical error and he can't figure > out what the equation means. > > And if by "creativity", you mean that my daughter is able to look past > grammatical mistakes and understand meaning in context, rather than break down > like a robot because an author misused punctuation, then by all means, she > gets > an A. > > [Platt] > Personally I'd be ashamed to ask a juvenile to justify my lying. > > [Arlo] > I asked her about this, and she said "this guy is a jackass". Since I had > agreed you remark on my grammatical mistake (double instead of single quotes), > and was pointing out that even a kid could understand that in context that was > obviously a parody, this type of talk-radio bombast really paints you quite > the.. jackass. > > [Platt] > This wasn't the first time you have used quotes to falsely report what I said. > Then you preach about intellectual honesty. Pathetic. > > [Arlo] > Right, and you can show me ANY instance, a single ONE, where its not obviously > a parody to ANYONE who reads it? ONE? Go ahead, I'll wait... > > I admit, I'm a bit lazy typing emails, its a blended discourse genre to me, > and > I don't sweat "single versus double quotes" when the context obviously shouts > PARODY!. > > But since such a thing boggles your hardwired brain, and since I am dealing > with someone with a lower literacy than my teenage daughter, I'll be sure as > to > follow strict grammar rules when talking to you, Platt, so your little brain > doesn't explode... > > Kudos, though, for the inane distortions. "Jackass", indeed. > > > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org/md/archives.html > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org/md/archives.html ___ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
