Klarinet Archive - Posting 001037.txt from 1998/12

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: Re: [kl] Opinions and Arguments
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 09:38:24 -0500

On Mon, 28 Dec 1998 08:43:55 EST, LeliaLoban@-----.com said:

> In list #854, Donna Corbitt wrote,
>
> > Back to Scott: You have toooo much time on your hand.... or need
> > something besides a keyboard or a clarinet to fill (feel) it.......
> > You seem to NEVER let things go..... So I am going to..... YOU enjoy
> > listening to yourself..... How could you ever measure up to
> > yourself?
>
> IMHO, that's about as nasty as anything anybody else has said, but in
> addition, as Scott politely and humorously pointed out later, she
> completely misrepresented what he had said, by attributing a quotation
> to him that actually came from someone else's message. (Evidently
> Donna confused a quotation Scott used with the part of the message he
> wrote.)

No, I don't think this can be right. Scott never quoted anything, even
in the post you include, until after Donna had posted.

I didn't understand the reference to Scott -- I thought she was inviting
him to join in on her side, actually, as in, "over to Scott, after
this!" -- so I just passed over it.

> In other words, Donna, you attacked a peacemaker who wrote some common
> sense!

Donna used Scott's name, so she was confused about who he was; but it
was pretty clear she was attacking me, since she quoted my whole post
and included nothing else.

So, am I a peacemaker who wrote some common sense?-)

Interimly, I may not have been a peacemaker, but ultimately I am: I want
argument here to have the 'other' meaning, or even the 'main' meaning of
the word, as Paulette pointed out:

> "Argument" in only one of it's meanings (and a sub meaning at that)
> has to do with quarreling and disagreement - see Webster's Ninth New
> Collegiate Dictionary.

What would tend to keep it that way here would be rigour, or rigor if
you prefer, applied a bit more frequently, and not only by protagonists.

And I'd say this *is* common sense.

However, I would also agree that you're right that Donna could have
cleaned up her mistake more responsibly.

Tony
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