Re: [TML]Tracking spaceships inJump TU, was: Instantcity
Phil Pugliese 20 Feb 2016 17:32 UTC
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That's just gotta' be the most silly-ass load of crap I've read in a long time.
A previous poster was right when he stated that you appear to have only a limited comprehension of English.
And that explains a lot.
"What we have here, is a failure to communicate!"
p.s. I known a few linguists that taught at the local uni. They would've laughed just as hard as I am.
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On Fri, 2/19/16, Greg Chalik <mrg3105@gmail.com> wrote:
Subject: Re: [TML]Tracking spaceships inJump TU, was: Instantcity
To: xxxxxx@simplelists.com
Date: Friday, February 19, 2016, 10:10 PM
Richard,
'adventure' is not an English word, and its meaning
is not what the proposed dictionary says it is.
It may be a minor point to you, but semantics and
etymology are major areas of study within the discipline of
Linguistics.
No part of 'adventure' should include any mention
of death, because that would make adventure a synonym for
life.
Greg
On 19/02/2016 3:14 PM,
"Richard Aiken" <xxxxxx@gmail.com>
wrote:
On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at
7:59 PM, <tmr0195@comcast.net>
wrote:
My apologies for tossing around
definitions. I was trying to find some way to clearly state
my concept of the word "adventure" which is why I
quoted from The American Heritage Dictionary.
I am hoping that one of the sources I supplied is more
acceptable than The American Heritage
Dictionary.
I'm
afraid you are searching in vain, Tom. Mr. Chalik simply
does not wish to understand. Because if he admitted to such
understanding, that would undermine his position that a
"certain death" misjump can't become a
legitmate adventure.
I
also suspect that Mr. Chalik genuinely has difficulty
comprehending written English, since he consistently (not
just in this conversation but in others as well) seizes upon
minor points and ignores major ones.
--
Richard Aiken
"Never insult anyone by accident."
Robert A. Heinlein"I studied the Koran a great
deal. I came away from that study with the conviction there
have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as
Muhammed." Alexis de Tocqueville
(1843)"We know a little about a lot
of things; just enough to make us dangerous." Dean
Winchester
"It has been my experience
that a gun doesn't care who pulls its trigger."
Newton Knight (as portrayed by Matthew McConaughey),
to a scoffing Confederate tax collector facing the weapons
held by Knight's young children and
wife.
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