Re: OFF-TOPIC: Non linguistics books by Chomsky

On Monday, May 24, 2004, at 06:19 AM, John Cowan wrote:

> Ray Brown scripsit:
>
>> On Sunday, May 23, 2004, at 12:29 AM, Jeff Jones wrote:
>>
>>> This is really the last straw! You and Tom and Ray etc. don't get it, do
>>> you?
>>
>> What is 'it'? What am I supposed not to have got?
>
> For the record, the participants in this thread prior to the message
> you quote above were Chris Bates, Andreas Johannson, myself,
> Emily Zilch, Danny Wier, Michael Poxon, Mark P. Line, Steve Cooney,
> Thomas R. Weir, and David Peterson.  I can only think that your name
> was introduced in error.
Yes, I'd assume 'Mark' was Mark Line and 'Tom' was Thomas Weir; I guess
etc covers the rest.

But if I was included in error, then the attack was not only intemperate,
it was also ill-informed (in my 60+ years I've found intemperate attacks
do tend to be ill-informed anyway).

But the addition of "No Cross, No Crown, No Puke Green Star!", which seems
to have nothing to do with the thread concerned (as far as I can see),
made me wonder if I was included for some other 'political offense' I was
deemed to have committed.

Even if my name was included in error (and I suspect I'll never know), it
was an unpleasant ad_hominem attack on my two colleagues plus unnamed
others, of the sort I don't recall reading here for several years now.

Let's hope it remains isolated and untypical of the list. I made my point
- and I notice several others have also. Let's move on.

Ray
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