Dyslexia and English Orthography was "surprise"

[Bill Palmer]

Well, maybe these discussions are like hockey fights.  They are not what the
players came for, supposedly, but they tend to keep the game clean.

So I'm wondering why so many academics enjoy using obscene or scatalogical
terms in these "scholarly" postings.  I'm wondering if those who ply their
trade in classrooms & libraries feel like they need to demonstrate that they
are really pretty edgy.

Bill
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From: "Scot LaFaive" <slafaive at GMAIL.COM>
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 2:02 PM
Subject: Re: Dyslexia and English Orthography was "surprise"


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>>So why not just ignore it?
>
> I think many of us have been trying to do just that for the past year or
> so
> (however long he's been on here), but it's difficult when 75% of what he
> says is complete bullshit. Anyway, you are right. From now on I am going
> to
> try to hold to my personal promise not to waste time responding to Tom's
> useless comments. If you find me breaking that promise, please feel free
> to
> chastise me.
>
> Scot
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> On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 6:28 AM, Randy Alexander
> <strangeguitars at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Scot LaFaive <slafaive at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > 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
>> field
>> > knew to be false, but I didn't listen anyway and just kept on trucking.
>> It's
>> > rather offensive after awhile.
>>
>> So why not just ignore it?  If I see a post on some topic I'm not
>> really interested in, I just take a quick glance at it and then hit
>> the archive button.  At least the subject matter is something related
>> to what the list deals with.
>>
>> No matter how much I think about it, I still can't see any benefit
>> that could possibly arise from insults.  If someone insults me and I
>> insult them back harder, can I gain from this?  Can we trace this back
>> to flyting?
>>
>> --
>> Randy Alexander
>> Jilin City, China
>> My Manchu studies blog:
>> http://www.bjshengr.com/manchu
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