Re: PC folk etymologies, contd. [was: What kind of change?]

On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 07:51:28 -0800, Bob Cunningham
<exw6sxq@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 08:16:11 -0700, Hatunen
<hatunen@xxxxxxx> said:

On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 23:23:11 -0800, Bob Cunningham
<exw6sxq@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 19:25:01 -0700, Hatunen
<hatunen@xxxxxxx> said:

On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 15:40:07 -0800, Bob Cunningham
<exw6sxq@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 19:41:30 +0200, "Father Ignatius"
<FatherIgnatius@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

(in a signature)

"I don't in general care much what people say about me or
about my posts."

---Bob Cunningham

I find it hard to believe I really said "posts". I would
normally say "postings".

Why do you care?

I think I see your intended point, but what I care about
what I said has nothing to do with what I might care about
what someone else said.

I'm assuming that Iggy Ignatius wouldn't quote a thing like
that without taking care to see it was quoted accurately.

It seems a peculiar apolgy for someone who also said, "I don't in
general care much what people say about me or about my posts."

Apology? I don't see anything that even remotely resembles
an apology. Where do you think there's an apology?

That's the way I took 'I find it hard to believe I really said
"posts". I would normally say "postings".'

Anyway, I was being ironic--in the British sense, not the O
Henry sense. Until I look up and see for myself that I said
"posts" instead of "postings", I won't believe I did.

And what I said about Iggy quoting accurately was also
irony. He actually is skilled at quoting out of context to
create a misleading impression. That's the worst kind of
inaccuracy. I would never seriously credit Iggy with
quoting accurately.

Maybe there's something to what some UK posters have said
about us: Americans don't understand irony.

I do understand irony. Stop being so defensive; it was your irony
I was pointing out to Wordpecker who is the one who didn't get
it.

I think you need to reconstruct the thread.

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