Re: Tension on Cybalist

Check your "files" and you'll find that Piotr did not use loon and kook.
Gerry

Adrian wrote:

>
> Hi Gerry,
>
> I'm not normally the insulting type, but perhaps a shade direct. I just
> don't like words like loon, kook, soapbox being tossed around as, in my
> fancy, learned folk should have a sufficiently large vocab not to need that,
> Perhaps English is Piotr's second, well so it is for me. I've no doubt the
> posts are informative to some. Should I wish to be insullting you'd get a
> surprise. I merely intimated some umbrage. Considering maybe Piotr's English
> is second, I made sure I made myself clear. I have exchanges with folk from
> other countries and their English is dreadful, does not mattter, we get
> through. I am an academic. If you don't want me around, just say so. If we
> can be friends, fine, if not, fine too. Like anybody else I don't relish
> being misinterpreted or misprisioned. I find it amusing that one person may
> use cheapo pejoratives where another one objecting is insulting. What makes
> you imagine I want to take over, iFFFF that's addressed to me or about me.
> Seems a rather quick judgment on rather small acquaintance. I am on other
> lists I've been on for years, never had this one happen to me, with one
> exception Geniusl, where they count coup on ninnies.
>
> I for one don't grade or judge people on their status, qualifications or
> otherwise their interests. There is an English proverb: a cat may look at a
> king. As put before I was, perhaps, misled at Linguist Org so I tested
> some. In Japan if someone commits a faux pas it is treated as if it did not
> happen at all, just ignored. Does not seem to be the case with English,
> funny that. Perhaps a case, as once written up In Realites, french, about
> totems and taboos newcomers get treated by. For another one German has
> Schadenfreude, but the English practice it. I find it, again, rather
> amusing to stand in-formed, to go find something less academic. I'd have to
> aver to dutch or french to label that. funny again. Should I further take
> it that as you have scholarly pursuits, I don't, by using "less academic"?
> Would it not be simpler to write I find Piotr rather useful? Or, even: We
> have fruitful exchanges? As for 'tension' that's perhaps too overdoing it a
> shade. Did I produce tension?? Even more Human: Hey, Adrian, you're over
> doing it?
>
> adrian
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> Subject: Re: [cybalist] Re: Tension on Cybalist
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> > Adrian,
> > Why are you so insulting to Piotr