Re: Concurrency in an RDB
Date: 21 Dec 2006 15:34:32 -0800
Message-ID: <1166744072.441208.11360_at_i12g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>
paul c wrote:
> Marshall wrote:
> > On Dec 20, 3:13 pm, monaro..._at_gmail.com wrote:
> >
> >>Marshall wrote:
> ..
> >>Is English your second language?
> >
> >
> > Wow, an insult in which you imply that I don't speak
> > English very well. Isn't *that* original, and oh so relevant?
> > ...
>
> Hey Marshall, your anglais is satisfactaire. it's standard technique
> for newsgroup/"successful" hand-wavers to challenge an irrelevant aspect
> of the questioner's manner, ie., to try to change the subject.
I have an interest in carefully analysing why people say what they say...
Here are some possible motivations for why Dan posed that question...
- Dan actually believes English is not Marshall's primary language, and the question was to be taken literally
- Dan believes Marshall can speak English well, but thinks some of the NG readers are naive enough to read his question literally. This is a ploy to help bolster his argument by attacking Marshall's intelligence - perhaps because Dan thinks his argument isn't able to stand up on its own.
- Dan used it as a literary device, as both an insult and to underscore what he regards as a discrepancy in Marshall's response.
It seems to me that the third option is closest to the truth.
David Received on Fri Dec 22 2006 - 00:34:32 CET