On 13 May 2013 12:54, Craig Franklin <[email protected]> wrote: > All other things aside, misspelling the person's name and then calling them > an "asshole" is hardly likely to lead to an amicable solution, peace, love, > or understanding, is it?
That's correct. However I think we all recognize, that if you call someone an asshole on an email list, then bang, you automatically lose any debate. After that language, there is no real need to make any reply, in fact as a rhetorical strategy, it is the much better option to walk away rather than attempting to argue and making it appear than there are two "sides" to the argument. In fact, I see this gave Huib the opportunity to now apologise for using the word. So now we are left with poorly judged emails on public record from both "sides" for ever. Not great. Fae -- [email protected] http://j.mp/faewm Guide to email tags: http://j.mp/mfae _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
