Re: YAC: Widse -- a conlang based on Ygyde

Christophe Grandsire scripsit:
>
> En r=E9ponse =E0 Sally Caves <scaves@...>:
>
> > Not me.  Calling his work "shit" is unacceptable.
>
> True, but it's honest. Ignoring sound and friendly advice is *in my personal
> humble opinion* worse than calling this advice "shit".
I have heard, rightly or wrongly, that "shit" is a much stronger pejorative
than "merde" is.

> > > The unfathomable contempt and arrogance shown by those
> > > three words and the escape from responsibility they represent are
> > > according to me worse than all the personal insults you can utter.
> >
> > NOT!
>
> Now Sally, you are just being rude!
Hardly.  It's just honest vehement disagreement, not an attempt to censor you.
The "according to me" is parenthetical, and not part of the disagreement.
Similarly, if A says "I think such-and-such" and B says "Not so", the opposition
is to the "such-and-such", not to A's claim about what he thinks.
What is logical is not English.  :-)

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