From: John Platte <john.platte@...>
Date: 2003-07-12T03:32:46+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Humans and dictionaries (was Re: My brief and torrid aff airwith Ruby.)

Lyle,

No, I saw and understood your comments in context, and find the joke 
offensive. I like your sense of humor a great deal, and I get your 
intended joke, at least on a couple levels.

I simply find the term extremely inflammatory. I'm not angry at you at 
all, just protesting the insertion of that term into the discussion. To 
me, it's akin to joking about the Nazi holocaust. I hope that even 
people who vigorously disagree with my views on this topic can 
understand at least a request that we not go there.

So I posted a succinct message that indicated the offensiveness of that 
term to me without saying anything else. I think it was the best thing 
to do. Do you feel I should have done something else instead?

As this is now /all the way/ off-topic, I'll not post again on this 
thread; I'm happy to discuss this off-list if someone wishes.

On Friday, Jul 11, 2003, at 12:56 America/Chicago, Lyle Johnson wrote:

> John Platte wrote:
>
>> It is an extremely inflammatory term.
>
> sigh.
>
> I am clinging to the belief that you have seen my comments out of 
> context, and that's what provoked this response.

-- 
John Platte
Principal Consultant, NIKA Consulting
http://nikaconsulting.com/