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On 2012-11-08 18:58, Jo wrote :
On talk-fr he's such a know-it-all, but not all of his 'wisdom' is always appreciated, to put it mildly. There's a bit too much of it too. Impossible to read all of it, even if one would try.know-it-all is the right word if you add arrogant. I've had an off-track discussion where he methodically denied every word I said. He said that the Julian calendar has no leap years, that there are no negative dates (would we be in year 13 700 000 000 ± ?) that the Romans had no number 0 because they used negation (yet in my mind, nihil positively means 0, what they lacked is the digit 0) etc... He almost called me a twit. To which I would answer with the French word twat ;-) You just can't debate, even less compromise with him. On 2012-11-08 19:17, Jo wrote :
All I know is that he is largely ignored on talk-fr. So I don't think anybody knows how to handle him. My impression is that he became a little bit less verbose, but not by much.Knowing him, I think that's the good idea. Warning him that if
we will have to resort to what you mention.
Cordialement,
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