From: inspecti@ux7.lbl.gov
Newsgroups: talk.abortion,talk.politics.guns,alt.conspiracy,alt.fan.dan-quayle,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Constitutional Questions, and liberalisms....
Date: 8 Oct 92 16:13:36 GMT
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Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
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In article <BvsFow.IyB@news.cso.uiuc.edu> rls@uihepa.hep.uiuc.edu writes:
>In article <1992Oct8.050742.12207@news.unomaha.edu>, kkrueger@cwis.unomaha.edu (Kurt Krueger) writes:
>
>>drieux@wetware.com  writes:
>>
>[babble deleted]
>
>>I'm not on drugs, and it's not that late in the night.  Plus, I know I'm not
>>stupid because I made it through graduate school with honors.  What in the
>>heck does this say?
>[...]
>>there is simply no excuse for such wildly in-
>>comprehensible messages as this.
>
>
>	I have to say that I agree with Kurt here.  I gave up reading anything
>from "drieux" quite a while ago, in spite of the fact that we seem to agree on
>some issues, because of the headaches that it was causing.  Perhaps a lesson is
>in order...("drieux", please pay attention).
>
<useful & informative lesson deleted>

Ray, Kurt, are you paying attention?  Good.  Now, I will do something which 
will (I hope) explain the situation in regard to your comprehension 
difficulties.  I will use complete sentences, with a clear punctuation 
scheme.  This is in deference to Ray, who went to all the trouble to 
explain basic grammar.

I want both of you to scroll back to the header of this message.  Look 
very closely at the line which begins with the word "Newsgroups," 
followed by a colon.  This is the line which determines which newsgroup(s)
to which a newsgroup is sent.  Often, it serves as a clue as to the 
newsgroup from which the message originated.  By "originated," I mean
to say "the newsgroup for which the message was originally written."

(This is the difficult part, gentlemen.  At this point I would ask you
to withold any preconceived notions as to the proper and appropriate
modes of expression in a text medium.)

In this "Newsgroups:" line is a phrase.  This phrase is "talk.bizarre."
I won't attempt to explain the phenomenon which is called "talk.bizarre,"
except to say that many forms of expression are allowed in this particular
newsgroup.  Many of these take the form of creative application of the 
rules of grammar, syntax, punctuation, spelling, and paradigm.  A good
example of this might be James Joyce's book _Finnigan's Wake_.  You 
may wish to look through this book during some day when you have free time.

drieux's terminology may be difficult for you to comprehend, but this 
does not make this terminology invalid.  Calling drieux's words "meaningless"
is an invalid statement, because it is based on one's lack of comprehension
of those words.  It is equivalent to declaring that Descarte's words are
meaningless because one does not speak French. 

In summation, one should never declare someone's words "meaningless" simply
because one is ignorant of the mode of speaking which the speaker uses.  This
kind of devaluation of language is evidential of a small, inflexible
intellect.  Please try not to make this mistake again.

Sincerely,
Matthew Paul Legare
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories
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