From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2007-09-07T03:25:40+09:00
Subject: Re: subject line

On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 02:38:36AM +0900, Stefan Rusterholz wrote:
> Chad Perrin wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 01:17:58AM +0900, Stefan Rusterholz wrote:
> >> 
> >> Maybe one or the other happend to chose his/her words badly. Consider 
> >> that not everybody on this list has english as his first language.
> > 
> > So . . . what, other people get a free pass for choosing words "badly"
> > (aka insultingly), but I'm an asshole for pointing that out?
> 
> I think wording like "piss poor attitude" is rather clearly crossing the 
> line of being an accident.
> But of course, it's the others, not you.

I didn't say it was accidental.  I said I was pointing out when someone
chose words that appear calculated to insult.

. . . but of course, I couldn't have meant what I *said* -- I must have
meant what you wanted me to say, so it's easier to blame me for the ills
of the world.  That's called a "straw man", by the way.

-- 
CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ]
MacUser, Nov. 1990: "There comes a time in the history of any project when
it becomes necessary to shoot the engineers and begin production."