It is curious how superficial people are when it comes to using derogatory words. People get mad about using explicit insulting words (such as Krivit, with his silly censoring of his blog) but they consider formal ad hominem expression as ok. Like what Lawrence here show us the true art of insulting. By the way, in many forums saying that "I will put someone into ignore list" is considered as violation of forum rules. That is because saying this in public is one of the most severe insults what you can make. This is good example how context makes words insulting. Not what is their dictionary meanining.
What it comes to insulting people, that is that spreading negative disinformation about the person is what makes a sentence as insulting. Not what words they chose to use. Here Krivit has it extremely wrong, because he elevates his own insulting into higher level than Rossi's use of vulgar and derogative words such as "snake" or "clown". But truth is that Krivit has attacked Rossi in extremely insulting manner, because he has spread disinformation and speculations as facts, not to mentning indirect insults, such as crerative use of words "coffee maker" and "show room". Derogatory words often correlate with spreading negative disinformation. For example if I call Lawrence as "gay", it is insulting because it is spreading negative disinformation (and here we of course assume that both me and Lawrence are twelve year olders.) in summary. Insulting is not about the words, but it is all about the negative disinformation. Calling Jed here as "buffoon", is insulting, not because it is derogative word, but it is insulting because it is not true and it is not based on facts. —Jouni maanantai, 10. lokakuuta 2011 Stephen A. Lawrence <[email protected]> kirjoitti: > > > On 11-10-10 11:04 AM, Joe Catania wrote: >> >> Newton's Law is irrelevant. Your the type of buffoon who ... > > And you, /Mister/ Catania, are apparently the type of poster who resorts to ad hominems when he's having trouble expressing himself clearly enough to get his point across. > > Jed's may be a lot of things, possibly even including "wrong", but he's no buffoon. > > And you, /Mister/ Catania, are plonked. I don't need to see this kind of stuff on Vortex. (You are also apparently the type of poster who can't be bothered to proof read his posts for obvious typos before sending them, which also contributes needlessly to the annoyance level of this list.) > > >
