Klarinet Archive - Posting 000052.txt from 2005/03

From: <cjarrett1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Expectations for professionals
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 00:59:50 -0500

Who really cares? What a waste of time and energy.
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From: "Tom Flavel" <tom@-----.net>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 11:17 PM
Subject: Re: [kl] Expectations for professionals

> On 01/03/2005 22:21:56, Tony Pay wrote:
>> On 1 Mar, Tom Flavel <tom@-----.net> wrote:
>>
>> > On 01/03/2005 15:01:59, Tony Pay wrote:
>> >
>> > > On 1 Mar, "Vann Joe Turner" <medpen@-----.net> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > Tony, if I'd written the gobbledegook that you did for the
>> > > > Cambridge
>> > > > Companion, I'd be ashamed.
>> > >
>> > > Care to say why?
>> >
>> > I think part of his point involves that you skip that which you are
>> > unable to exert superiority over, and head for the few specific
>> > comments
>> > you can make use of, by argumentum ad hominem or otherwise.
>>
>> OK, I understand that that's what you make of the sum total of my posts.
>> Argumentum ad hominem as a default, and then otherwise.
>
> Quite the contary: from what I see (and I read with enjoyment, even if
> I'm not particularly vocal), the majority of your comments are
> well-founded. I'm saying that it's a shame the personal attacks sneak in
> amongst them, since they undermine that foundation.
>
>
>> > I assume this behaviour is an attempt to make all of his (or whoever's)
>> > points appear ill-founded because of one unrelated comment.
>>
>> I just wanted to focus on a comment that I might be able to answer.
>>
>> I cannot defend myself against the charge that I don't have a clue how
>> the
>> human heart works, or the charge that I played a performance that he
>> found
>> deficient. In fact have to say that -- of course -- I found that
>> performance
>> deficient myself.
>
> Nor could I :)
>
>
>> Instead, I ask: what is 'gobbledegook' in what I wrote in the Cambridge
>> Companion?
>>
>> We might even have a productive discussion.
>
> That's an excellent aim!
>
> --
> Tom
>
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