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From: Adam H. Kerman on 28 Mar 2010 10:02 Aatu Koskensilta <aatu.koskensilta(a)uta.fi> wrote: >(Mac groups dropped.) restored >"Adam H. Kerman" <ahk(a)chinet.com> writes: >>No, there's no such exception, but I don't use the style manuals >>published by the World's International Association of Incompetent >>Writers. >Come now, singular or generic they is perfectly acceptable, and has been >for ages. Your religious fanaticism is not very becoming. You don't get to declare plural words to be singular. You don't get to declare that 4 is greater than 5. There is a word for people who create their own false reality then try to get others to believe it's true.
From: News on 28 Mar 2010 10:04 Adam H. Kerman wrote: > Aatu Koskensilta <aatu.koskensilta(a)uta.fi> wrote: >> (Mac groups dropped.) > > restored > >> "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk(a)chinet.com> writes: > >>> No, there's no such exception, but I don't use the style manuals >>> published by the World's International Association of Incompetent >>> Writers. > >> Come now, singular or generic they is perfectly acceptable, and has been >> for ages. Your religious fanaticism is not very becoming. > > You don't get to declare plural words to be singular. You don't get to > declare that 4 is greater than 5. There is a word for people who create > their own false reality then try to get others to believe it's true. USENET
From: Aatu Koskensilta on 28 Mar 2010 10:08 "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk(a)chinet.com> writes: > You don't get to declare plural words to be singular. You don't get to > declare that 4 is greater than 5. Indeed not. Such linguistic matters turn on our actual use of language, and arithmetical identities on the mathematical nature of things. > There is a word for people who create their own false reality then try > to get others to believe it's true. Yes, I already noted your religious fanaticism is not very becoming. -- Aatu Koskensilta (aatu.koskensilta(a)uta.fi) "Wovon man nicht sprechan kann, dar�ber muss man schweigen" - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
From: Adam H. Kerman on 28 Mar 2010 10:21 Aatu Koskensilta <aatu.koskensilta(a)uta.fi> wrote: >"Adam H. Kerman" <ahk(a)chinet.com> writes: >>You don't get to declare plural words to be singular. You don't get to >>declare that 4 is greater than 5. >Indeed not. Such linguistic matters turn on our actual use of language, >and arithmetical identities on the mathematical nature of things. >>There is a word for people who create their own false reality then try >>to get others to believe it's true. >Yes, I already noted your religious fanaticism is not very becoming. A straw man attack, repeated, quickly becomes lame. You do sink into the muck at times, but you rarely choose to remain there.
From: CL on 28 Mar 2010 10:49
Adam H. Kerman wrote: > There is a word for people who create > their own false reality then try to get others to believe it's true. Fox News Commentator? |