When a SEEMINGLY level-headed and intelligent person on this NG can't
make the distinction between a declarative statement and a question, I
wonder if there's any shred of hope of my posts EVER being understood
accurately?
I can well understand when the loose canons here make their wildly
inaccurate assumptions but when the "normal" folks grossly misunderstand
plain English, I think it's time for me to save my painful typing
(recent nerve impingement in my neck) for the newbies.
I GIVE UP!!!
(oh, and NO, I'm not asking for sympathy; I'm just venting because I'm
sick and tired of people not taking the extra couple of seconds to read
my short posts with some modicum of comprehension.) It's not like I
ramble on and on with what I ate for breakfast, etc, before making a
point. I purposely keep most posts BRIEF.
Dave
foggytown wrote:
> After I completed my master's thesis on the Unintended Use of
> Metaphysics In Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama I just KNEW I should have
> taken that remedial course on basic English! Why wasn't this guy
> around to guide me back then?
>
> FoggyTown
>
I can see that cancelling a post 5 seconds after it appeared here
instead of the intended newsgroup has done little to prevent further
discussion. I've already posted a new thread (since I couldn't reply to
a cancelled post) apologizing for the mistake; it wasn't intended for
anyone in this NG.
Please let this thread die, folks
Dave
Bay Area Dave lives!!!
David wrote:
> When a SEEMINGLY level-headed and intelligent person on this NG can't
> make the distinction between a declarative statement and a question, I
> wonder if there's any shred of hope of my posts EVER being understood
> accurately?
>
> I can well understand when the loose canons here make their wildly
> inaccurate assumptions but when the "normal" folks grossly misunderstand
> plain English, I think it's time for me to save my painful typing
> (recent nerve impingement in my neck) for the newbies.
>
> I GIVE UP!!!
>
> (oh, and NO, I'm not asking for sympathy; I'm just venting because I'm
> sick and tired of people not taking the extra couple of seconds to read
> my short posts with some modicum of comprehension.) It's not like I
> ramble on and on with what I ate for breakfast, etc, before making a
> point. I purposely keep most posts BRIEF.
>
> Dave
In article <[email protected]>, Mark & Juanita
<[email protected]> wrote:
> >I can well understand when the loose canons here make their wildly
> >inaccurate assumptions
>
>
> Yep, nothing worse than loose doctrinal statements flying left & right.
Why do you have to take a simple post about English grammar and turn it
into a Republican and Democrat thing? :-)
Joe
aka 10x
On Sat, 12 Nov 2005 11:59:05 -0800, David <[email protected]> wrote:
... snip of diatribe regarding grammar
>
>I can well understand when the loose canons here make their wildly
>inaccurate assumptions
Yep, nothing worse than loose doctrinal statements flying left & right.
:-)
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If you're gonna be dumb, you better be tough
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On 13 Nov 2005 05:48:08 -0800, [email protected] wrote:
>Bay Area Dave lives!!!
>
>
I realized that a long time ago when he quoted a post by his alter ego in
response to one of mine. I kind of assumed everybody knew.
To reply by e-mail, use jcarlson631 at yahoo dot com
-- jc
On Sat, 12 Nov 2005 15:49:27 -0800, David <[email protected]> wrote:
>foggytown wrote:
>
>> After I completed my master's thesis on the Unintended Use of
>> Metaphysics In Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama I just KNEW I should have
>> taken that remedial course on basic English! Why wasn't this guy
>> around to guide me back then?
>>
>> FoggyTown
>>
>I can see that cancelling a post 5 seconds after it appeared here
>instead of the intended newsgroup has done little to prevent further
>discussion. I've already posted a new thread (since I couldn't reply to
>a cancelled post) apologizing for the mistake; it wasn't intended for
>anyone in this NG.
>
>Please let this thread die, folks
>
>Dave
Due to rampant abuse by various trolls, most news servers ignore cancel
requests. Thus, your cancel request probably didn't get honored by more
than one or two news servers sitting in a couple of dusty basements in a
couple of third world countries. Meaning, your goof has circled the world
a few times and you're stuck with it. :-(
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If you're gonna be dumb, you better be tough
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David <[email protected]> wrote:
>When a SEEMINGLY level-headed and intelligent person on this NG can't
>make the distinction between a declarative statement and a question, I
>wonder if there's any shred of hope of my posts EVER being understood
>accurately?
LOL! Why did you end that declarative sentence with a question mark?
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Sat, Nov 12, 2005, 4:16pm [email protected] (alexy) doth say:
LOL! Why did you end that declarative sentence with a question mark?
I guess he's decided that if he can't dazzle us with brilliance,
he'll baffle us with bullshit. LMAO
JOAT
If it ain't broke, don't lend it.
- Red Green