Re: Should I stay or should I go?

John Palmer <jpalmer1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
> On 12 May 2008 08:20:21 -0700, aahz@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Aahz Maruch) wrote:
> >In article <o8mg24h84v5u0qq18lajjqhrve9t80n43j@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> >John Palmer  <jpalmer1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >>On 12 May 2008 07:26:35 -0700, aahz@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Aahz Maruch) wrote:
> >>>In article <s976249uopa6atboia6c2vfpgidcsq6k2j@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> >>>John Palmer  <jpalmer1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >>>>On 8 May 2008 07:16:11 -0700, aahz@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Aahz Maruch) wrote:
> >>>>>In article
<bcca88d3-93cb-4e48-bc6c-9fcd77ea11bf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,

> >>>>>To put it another way, in case you're interested: the marriage
> >>>>>proposals had less to do with calling you an asshole than with
> >>>>>cheering on you getting called on your ***ism.  Had a different
> >>>>>forceful but pungent wording been written without foul
> >>>>>language, it would likely have received the same response.
> >>>>
> >>>>Possibly. But I would guess that hearing someone cheered on for
> >>>>use of a personal insult ends up feeling very different from
> >>>>having someone cheered on for a powerful argument. The latter
> >>>>seems like it's cheering on the argument, the former, like it's
> >>>>cheering the insult, and hence, approving it, and essentially
> >>>>re-sending it.
> >>>
> >>>Except, of course, that I said nothing about avoiding personal
insults.
> >>
> >>I believe that "except" would best be used if I had said, suggested,
> >>implied, or allowed a valid inference, that you had said something
> >>about avoiding personal insults. 
> >
> >Except insofar as following up to my post implies that you're
responding
> >to my point.
> 
> Oh, I see. You have rules for how people are allowed to respond to
> your points. I have about as much regard for them as I currently have
> for your good opinion, which is, of course, none.

Er. Except (oh, dear, is that the right usage?) that this looks very
akin to the problem I'm runing into, reading your posts - when your
comments are interwoven with quoted text, they seem to be about that
text, in my reading. Further comment rfom you seems to indicate this
is incorrect. I find that confusing.

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