Re: BANANAFISH digest 866
Steven Gabriel (sgabriel@willamette.edu)
Sun, 21 Nov 1999 10:23:51 -0800 (PST)
My you are precocious.
Ellipses, ellipsis. Bah.
My worst typos are always homophones. Write, right? I've known the
difference since second grade, but I still can't type 'em correctly.
Perhaps it's not that it's wrong to point out such silliness, but in doing
so you dismiss what is otherwise a meaningful statement. I'm able if not
willing to be the butt of a one-liner, but I'd almost always prefer a
meaningful response.
S.
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On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, Scottie Bowman wrote:
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> Well, jared, since you INSIST.
> ('...should know better than to say something
> as precocious (yes, precocious) as "use correct
> grammar."...)
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> But in what way does the use of the phrase
> 'use correct grammar' offer us a demonstration
> of premature giftedness?
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> It must be an example of the power that Steven
> attributes to ambiguity. Perhaps it will one
> day achieve the popularity that he also tells us
> e-mail has given to the ellipse. ('a symmetrical
> closed curve traced by a point moving in a plane
> so that the sum of its distances from two other
> points is constant () () () () ()')
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> Scottie B.
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