Dyslexia and English Orthography was "surprise"

[Bill Palmer]

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.

Of what value is the nastiness found so regularly in this forum, except to
distract from whatever topic is under discussion?

Obviously TZ dares to violate borders that are jealously guarded by the
traditionalists.

Bill Palmer

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> The point of "how like him" is that TZ rarely answers posts that directly
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> ntradict his positions--he simply ignores them. There is no rational
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> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 12:39 AM, <ronbutters at aol.com> wrote:
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>> But how like him to ignore the evidence and cling tenaciously to an
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>> 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 irrelevant
> statistic in support of an impossible course of action.
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