"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 the language." In my dialect of English this means the same thing as, "Let's be honest: it's a wart on the language." Or, "Why kid ourselves: it's a wart on the language." Or, "If we look at the issue without bias, it's a wart on the language." In no way did I mean to imply that Mr. Holden was lying or trying to mislead anyone. In my dialect of English the meaning would be clear and I've already clarified that it was not my intent to impugn the honesty of Mr. Holden. Yet you seem to believe that it was my intent to insult him. Are you accusing me of lying? Perhaps you and Mr. Holden speak some dialect of English with which I am quite unfamiliar, and in which the statement I made could be misinterpreted. If this is the case, then I am very sorry for the misunderstanding. If I had known ahead of time about the rather different language that you two speak, I would have phrased things differently. Contra to what you say, except in cases where I was very clearly insulted first, I have not uttered sentences that as speech acts were insults to anyone here. Such speech acts would require my intention to insult. More (but not on this topic) after I finish giving a talk today on Chambers et. al.'s MultiJava. |>oug
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