Subject: Re: less parentheses --> fewer parentheses
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.net>
Date: 2000/08/25
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3176224855406135@naggum.net>

* Barry Margolin <barmar@genuity.net>
| Yes, there was actual criticism.  Not of grammar, but of the poster's
| intelligence.  If anything, that's worse!

  That may be so, but you _actually_ posted an accusation that I had
  dished out spelling and grammar flames.  Do you remember this?

BTW, I suggest that Erik proofread his posts better.  I don't
ordinarily post spelling/grammar corrections, but I feel that
spelling/grammar correction posts are fair game -- if you dish it out,
you'd better be able to take it.

  You seem to be realizing that this was a lie, and I'm happy that you
  do so, but you should be both brave and honest enough to say it out
  loud and admit being a psychotic liar, Barry Margolin, because you
  can't even see what's actually there.

| As a result, I sometimes get the precise point that you're
| commenting on wrong; in this case, you weren't complaining about the
| person's grammar itself, just his unwillingness to accept criticism.

  No.  Even that is wrong.  I was critizing his use of the extremely
  invalid "argument": "if you aren't perfect in <my language>, don't
  criticize people writing in <your language>", where the person who
  wrote this was German and hence wanted to silence all criticism of
  those who didn't know German and English equally well.  How stupid!

#:Erik
-- 
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