Talk:Reinhold Aman

message: There doesn't seem to be anything on his extensive career as an all-round general-purpose annoying flamer on Usenet, where he attempts to be the combined Archimedes Plutonium / Don Rickles for certain groups. AnonMoos 21:06, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's in there now, phrased as neutrally as possible. The guy does enjoy his scatology. --Orange Mike 01:25, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

text: I strongly resent that anonymous AnonMoos's libelous characterization of me and my Usenet posts and request that his/her defamation of character be deleted. Anyone who has read just part of my 8,000+ posts to "alt.usage.english" and other language-oriented newsgroups would see that AnonMoos's defaming me as an "all-round general-purpose annoying flamer" is clearly incorrect, false, and libelous. That anonymous coward has also made other derogatory comments about me in Wikipedia ("rv panegyrical probable vanity addition by subject of article." 14 Dec 2006). I don't know who that person is and what the cause is for his/her hatred. Maledictus 03:43, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, if (as you seem to be claiming) you are Prof. Aman, you certainly seem to be fitting his description of you as a flamer. The actual language in the article is not nearly as inflammatory as the language here in the talk page, and is not libelous, etc. --Orange Mike 22:28, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

text: I'm one of hundreds of people who have had an encounter with you in the past -- one which was rather brief and insignificant in itself, yet served to thoroughly illuminate your character.  If I had proposed that my wording above be incorporated as is in the article, then you would have had a legitimate cause for complaint, but as it is, you don't really.  As for my edit of 09:32, 14 December 2006, guess which version most editors would consider to be more neutral? AnonMoos 23:05, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

text: It should also be noted that use of a username is perfectly acceptable in Wikipedia. Not all of us are as brash in our public personae as you and I, and AnonMoos' use of a lower profile is no evidence of cowardice. You are out of line in that accusation, and violating the Wikipedia standards of civility. This is not Usenet. --Orange Mike 19:48, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Content 

message: This statement needs to be verified: "he taught undergraduate and graduate level courses in German grammar, stylistics, conversation, phonetics, philology, medieval and Baroque literature, dialectology, bibliography, and research methods."S. Valkemirer (talk) 00:50, 16 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Has the list of ten subjects he  taught at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee been verified? 

message: "During his university years he taught German, French, Spanish, and English at various high schools, usually on a part-time basis."
Presumably, therefore, he arrived in the United States in the late 1950s (1959?) and by the early 60s he was teaching German, French, Spanish, and English.
That he taught German is not implausible, but English (presumably to anglophone students)?2604:2000:6FC0:100:4049:470:EA5B:494B (talk) 17:34, 6 March 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: At U.S. colleges, "English" usually means literature, composition, creative writing and such.  Teaching the English language to non-native speakers is "English as a Second Language", a very different field. AnonMoos (talk) 16:24, 7 March 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that what you say may be right (note the hedge "usually"). Still, that he "taught English" in one sense or another remains to be verified.2604:2000:6FC0:100:4049:470:EA5B:494B (talk) 04:57, 8 March 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: That's nice.  If you have no particular knowledge of the U.S. higher education system, then your radical skepticism comes across as rather condescendingly passive-agressive.  Why did you even ask the question, if you weren't willing to listen to answers to it?? AnonMoos (talk) 08:50, 8 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  This too needs to be verified