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- From: aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine)
- Subject: Re: The Classiest Pickup Lines
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.131848.19751@netcom.com>
- Organization: Don't blame me, I voted for Bill 'n' Opus
- References: <28034@sybase.sybase.com> <1993Jan17.172610.6034@netcom.com> <28451@sybase.sybase.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 13:18:48 GMT
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- In article <28451@sybase.sybase.com> mysti@sierra.sybase.com (Mysti Rubert) writes:
- >
- >Actually my quarrel with the guy/girl who runs things together is not
- >a grammatical quarrel, merely an orthographic one (the charge of vaugeness
- >is a semantic complaint).
- >
- >Are you related to Chuckles? He too seems to focus on my all-too-frequent
- >typos (not that I would expect anyone with a penchant for prescriptive grammar
- >to allow me to invent the word usurous (typo was "usurious") an adjectival
- >form of "use") and not on the propositions at hand. Even if I was just
- >butt-stupid about english, single errors in a clear context are a different
- >manner of beast from deliberate vaguaries and cutsie running-together words,
- >aren't they?
-
- Given the choice between a poorly thought-out, unpalatable, and/or
- illogical argument that is well-written, and a piece of satire that adds
- additional humor value through various perversions of the English
- language, I'll take the latter, thankyouverymuch.
-
- Now, I *could* just flame your arguments directly, but I'm a busy
- person, and -- quite frankly -- a person who claims to be a technical
- writer should know that the presentation of the argument influences the
- reader's perception of it.
-
- But, justforthehellofit, let's attack the meat of one of your arguments:
-
- You make a claim that pickup lines are inherently unclassy. My (and
- others) primary irritation with this is that you are making what we
- consider to be an incorrect assumption, that pickup lines are used only
- or primarily for initiating a sexual encounter.
-
- Had you instead posed your argument as a request for discussion on
- whether or not pickups lines are primarily for sexual encounters, you
- would have received (from me, at least) a much better response.
- --
- --- Aahz (the *other* Dan Bernstein)
- @netcom.com
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