MDDM Scalping Lord Lepton
Ghetta Life
ghetta_outta at hotmail.com
Tue Jul 6 08:56:43 CDT 2004
My belated response to Mr. Monroe's question is this: Calling an argument
"twaddle" is an insult to the content of an argument, with an implied insult
re. the intelligence of the speaker. Stating that someone must be smoking
dope as evidenced by the contenet of a post is roughly the same thing,
except that the effects of smoke are anly temporary.
Ghetta
>From: Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com>
>
>Uh, is that exactly an insult here, David?
>Possible-to-probable intent notwithstanding ...
>
>--- Ghetta Life <ghetta_outta at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > First he sez:
> >
> > >Defining other people's argument as twaddle does
> > >not make your argument strongers. Insults usually
> > >bespeak uncertainty.
> >
> > Then he sez:
> >
> > >What? Jbor, what do you smoke? I want to try your
> > >stuff!
> >
> > Hmmmmm.
>
>
>
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