From: Simon.N.McRae@dartmouth.edu (Simon N McRae)
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Subject: P. Taylor Knows Nil (was Re: JORN, Jean-Yves, and Stephen 
 King.....
Date: 17 Dec 92 04:02:58 GMT
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Dear Mr. Patrick Taylor,

       Allow me to express my most profound apologies for having tred
on your delicate sensibilities.  I'd like to explain a few points to
you, in a clearly set out, logical manner which you will understand.  

       (1)  I separated Bull from Shit, and capitalized each word (and,
                  
            really, shouldn't this have betrayed my intentions?) in
order
            to have a little fun at Mr. kjf's learning institution's
            expense.  If you look closely, you'll see his address as
            ...bsu.edu. You see, then, in order to save the integrity
            of the school's acronym, I had to bend the rules a bit as
far
            as colloquial use of bullshit is concerned.  Get it?
       (2)  Hegemonical.  By insisting that Viet Nam be one word, kjf
is
            illustrating beautifully that loathesome tendency of
Americans
            to EXERT THEIR PREDOMINANCE OVER OTHER GROUPS.  Americans
choose
            to spell it as one word (for no good reason), so everyone
should 
            follow suit.  American way=correct way.  Linguistic
imperialism.
            Hegemony!  By the way, how on earth do you construe the
word?  
       (3)  Peremptory?  Really, now.  Who was being imperious and     
              
            dictatorial?  I was merely setting out a point of fact. 
Mr. kjf
            was the one being peremptory.
       (4)  Fuckhead.  Fuck head?  No, uh uh, wrong.  When separated
like 
            that, "fuck" doesn't know whether its an adjective or a
verb in
            some settings (eg--without a preceding indefinite article).
 
            Fuckhead is much clearer, and more common.  In fact, "fuck
head"
            is seldom, if ever, used.
       (4)  My tone.  Granted, a little scathing.  But look to what it
was in
            response.  At least I had the decency to launch my attacks
from a
            basis in fact.  And, besides, where do you think we are? 
            alt.niceboysandgirls?  Take a look around you, you myopic
fuck
            (oh no, I feel myself slipping back in to that *zoo*
language
            again, many apologies).

Each one of your objections has been successfully parried.  Maybe if
you had thought a little more about what you were going to say before
you went ahead and said it, maybe then I wouldn't have to explain
myself so.  But, deeds done, you've just given me more reason to
consider Americans undiscerning.  Of course I don't think all Americans
are undiscerning, but there *are* enough here the likes of you and kjf
and Pat Buchanan, etc., etc., that I'm really hard pressed to name any
among the minority who are not.  So I'm not really a bigot; I only
judge people after they've proven their stupidity, not before.

Oh, and next time you scamper off to the dictionary to look up a word,
scan beyond the first listed definition, and try to use your
imagination a little, too.  You, too, could then discover that reading
is fun.

You look a little piqued.  Are you sure you're going to be all right? 
Don't worry, I won't say a word about your lovely mother.  Not a word.

Cheers,

Simon


BTW, get rid of ;-).  It's girlish and unctiously saccharine. 
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