Re: apples on a stick

From: afyangh
Message: 50955
Date: 2007-12-20

Arnaud Fournet to Brian Mac Scott :

I have repeatedly complained that Mr Ryan was going too far.
You have rejected my requests.

The result of your complacent leaning is that we are knowing a never-
ending crisis about what Cybalist is supposed to be :
- a scientific site
- a "shit-relishing" blog.

The guy you sympathetically call "Patrick" has repeatedly insulted
me in mild or grossly obvious ways.
You keep affirming these insults are "jokes".
I am afraid nobody believes this, but you and your Patrick buddy.
I cite you :
Patrick made a joke : strong affirmation.
(I guess nobody buys that obvious lie it was meant as a joke).
Arnaud seems to have take it too seriously :
heavily modalized assertion : seems ; too ; seriously
(I am afraid you have burned out your credentials as an impartial
moderator)
I took it seriously because it was the umpteenth direct insult at me.
Is it too hard to understand ?

I think it is no wonder you "feel like" intervening
as your neglect is one of the main reasons this crisis does not stop.
I think a clear and direct mail from you to Mr. Ryan with nobody
aware of it would have kept the situation under control.

Irish people usually have enough courage and spirit to sell to the
rest of the world.
You failed to honour this reputation.
You are hardly worth more than your buddy : M. Ryan "bouche de
merde".

Arnaud



--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
wrote:
>
> At 4:51:06 AM on Wednesday, December 19, 2007, Francesco
> Brighenti wrote:
>
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan"
> > <proto-language@> wrote:
>
> >> If Arnaud seriously thinks anyone could linguistically
> >> connect Akkadian _supurgillu_ and English _superglue_,
> >> then perhaps this is not the place for him.
>
> > Sorry to point this out, but I checked the archives and I
> > found that it was _you_, not Arnaud, who (unnecessarily)
> > introduced by joke the supurgillu :: superglue comparison.
>
> We know this. Patrick made a joke based on the superficial
> similarity between <supurgillu> and <superglue>, and because
> Arnaud seems to have taken it a bit too seriously, he is now
> wondering how anyone with any knowledge of linguistics could
> fail to recognize it as a joke.
>
> I actually thought that it was rather funny. The 'merde de
> bouche' comment that followed it was much less so and was
> probably the main reason for Arnaud's explosion; we could
> have done without it.
>
> > Therefore, your remark quoted above is highly misleading.
> > Why do you attribute that absurd lexical comparison of
> > yours to poor Arnaud?
>
> He doesn't.
>
> Brian
>