Dyslexia and English Orthography was "surprise"

[Scot LaFaive]

>Why don't you occupy yourself with doing a study or something to make some
sort of valid contribution.

(Scot shrugs and puts his MA in linguistics away back on the shelf.)

Scot



On 2/20/09, Tom Zurinskas <truespel at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Here's my problem with you Scott.  Almost every time I write something you
> jump on my case.  You say I contradict "the experts".  Do you have any
> expertise at all at your young age in these areas that qualifies you to back
> up these "experts".
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> Why don't you occupy yourself with doing a study or something to make some
> sort of valid contribution.
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> Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+
> see truespel.com
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> > Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:38:59 -0600
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> > I will readily admit that Ron does speak openly, almost painfully so,
> about
> > what displeases him, but any anger directed toward Tom isn't because he
> dare
> > violate some traditionalist doctrine. It's because he continually says
> the
> > same thing without regard for what people more knowledgeable in the field
> > than him are saying. It's like if I went on a biology forum with the
> little
> > I know of the science and proclaimed various ideas that experts in the
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> > knew to be false, but I didn't listen anyway and just kept on trucking.
> It's
> > rather offensive after awhile.
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> > Scot
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> > On 2/20/09, Bill Palmer wrote:
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> >> I'm new to this list, but a veteran of many others. I expected more
> >> elevated discourse from the professorate, from which I'm guessing most
> of
> >> these posts originate.
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> >> Of what value is the nastiness found so regularly in this forum, except
> to
> >> distract from whatever topic is under discussion?
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> >> Obviously TZ dares to violate borders that are jealously guarded by the
> >> traditionalists.
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> >> Bill Palmer
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> >>> The point of "how like him" is that TZ rarely answers posts that
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> >>> ntradict his positions--he simply ignores them. There is no rational
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> >>> se with him, only his continued insistence that his opinions are facts,
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> >>> when they are contradicted by basic findings of linguistic science.
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> >>> Not that your opinion of what is or is not "insulting" is relevant. If
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> >>> hink that I or anyone else is being unnecessarily abusive, report the
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> >>> nt to the list owner. Your lectures on bad manners are in themselves,
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> >>> nt, insulting, and irrelevant.=C2=A0
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> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: Randy Alexander
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> >>> Sent: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 6:52 pm
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> >>> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 12:39 AM, wrote:
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> >>>> But how like him to ignore the evidence and cling tenaciously to an
> >>>> irreleva=3D
> >>>> nt statistic in support of an impossible course of action.
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> >>> Insulting wording. How about:
> >>> But he is ignoring the evidence and clinging tenaciously to an
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> >>> statistic in support of an impossible course of action.
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> >>> --
> >>> Randy Alexander
> >>> Jilin City, China
> >>> My Manchu studies blog:
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