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Douglas Alannessus at mit.edu
Thu Apr 19 08:43:09 EDT 2001
"Alex Martelli" <aleaxit at yahoo.com> writes:> No "taunting" involved -- I dived into it right after you seriously> insulted Steve Holden by impugning his honesty,I did no such thing. I said, "Why not be honest: it's a wart on thelanguage." In my dialect of English this means the same thing as,"Let's be honest: it's a wart on the language." Or, "Why kidourselves: it's a wart on the language." Or, "If we look at theissue without bias, it's a wart on the language."In no way did I mean to imply that Mr. Holden was lying or trying tomislead anyone. In my dialect of English the meaning would be clearand I've already clarified that it was not my intent to impugn thehonesty of Mr. Holden. Yet you seem to believe that it was my intentto insult him. Are you accusing me of lying?Perhaps you and Mr. Holden speak some dialect of English with which Iam quite unfamiliar, and in which the statement I made could bemisinterpreted. If this is the case, then I am very sorry for themisunderstanding. If I had known ahead of time about the ratherdifferent language that you two speak, I would have phrased thingsdifferently.Contra to what you say, except in cases where I was very clearlyinsulted first, I have not uttered sentences that as speech acts wereinsults to anyone here. Such speech acts would require my intentionto insult.More (but not on this topic) after I finish giving a talk today onChambers et. al.'s MultiJava.|>oug
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