In Reply to: Since you haven't followed the discussion . . . posted by Pat D on June 30, 2010 at 18:36:02:
Pat, I've been following right from the start. That I haven't been posting in the thread doesn't mean I haven't been "following the discussion." You, our self-avowed expert in logic and language, ought to know that. Your retorts seem to have lost a bit of their intellectual force recently. Are you OK?
If you wish to claim that carcass "totally misrepresented" Olive's position, then first you ought to directly quote from Carcass rather than paraphrase. Your own modifications to Carcass' sentences are a change in meaning not implied by the poster. Then secondly show how Carcass' statements do not represent Olive's position. You don't do that. You only claim it. Maybe I'll call that an appeal to your own authority, but whatever it is, it doesn't work. Typing "NOT" after a phrase only lowers this "discussion" that I haven't been "following" to the level of schoolyard taunts.
There may be interpretive differences between what Carcass wrote and what Olive intended, though I would hardly characterize the difference as "totally misrepresented." There's plenty to debate there without resorting to calling someone out on his English usage, particularly when your own is quite poor (at least in your last post).
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Follow Ups
- So you can somehow tell what posts I read? - robert young 04:26:00 07/01/10 (12)
- RE: So you can somehow tell what posts I read? - Pat D 07:34:24 07/01/10 (11)
- You're lost in translation, Pat. - robert young 13:03:40 07/01/10 (4)
- So where was c93 "spot on?" - Pat D 16:24:12 07/01/10 (3)
- Umm, he got two out of three. You identified the one, so the answer must be the other two. - robert young 09:43:59 07/02/10 (2)
- RE: Umm, he got two out of three. You identified the one, so the answer must be the other two. - Pat D 10:45:01 07/02/10 (1)
- It is geting worse for you. But it IS amusing to witness. - robert young 14:42:27 07/02/10 (0)
- You're still not being very clear - E-Stat 08:27:38 07/01/10 (5)
- Center channel. - Pat D 10:37:12 07/01/10 (4)
- You chose to NOT answer my question - E-Stat 10:51:26 07/01/10 (3)
- If you want Sean Olive's opinion, ask him. - Pat D 12:29:29 07/01/10 (2)
- Curious backpeddling - E-Stat 12:37:40 07/01/10 (1)
- Not me. - Pat D 12:48:10 07/01/10 (0)