Dyslexia and English Orthography was "surprise"

[ronbutters at AOL.COM]

The point of "how like him" is that TZ rarely answers posts that directly contradict his positions--he simply ignores them. There is no rational discourse with him, only his continued insistence that his opinions are facts, even when they are contradicted by basic findings of linguistic science.



Not that your opinion of what is or is not "insulting" is relevant. If you think that I or anyone else is being unnecessarily abusive, report the incident to the list owner. Your lectures on bad manners are in themselves, arrogant, insulting, and irrelevant. 

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From: Randy Alexander <strangeguitars at GMAIL.COM>
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On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 12:39 AM, <ronbutters at aol.com> wrote:

> But how like him to ignore the evidence and cling tenaciously to an
> irreleva=
> nt statistic in support of an impossible course of action.


Insulting wording.  How about:
But he is ignoring the evidence and clinging tenaciously to an irrelevant
statistic in support of an impossible course of action.

--
Randy Alexander
Jilin City, China
My Manchu studies blog:
http://www.bjshengr.com/manchu

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