Re: Tedious if you're not the Graying Wizard

> From: David Peterson
>
> In a message dated 5/5/01 1:15:21 PM, dbell@GRAYWIZARD.NET writes:
>
> << No, nor do I have any reason to believe that Fermat was lying
> either.  I
> think you missed the point.>>
>
>     Gee, reading through this one might think you were six, not
> sixty.  How
> come only I get yelled at when I'm a jerk?  Oh well.  Going
> through all your
> "comments".
Now isn't this precious?  Ad hominem, doesn't that always guarantee to prove your point!

As your post literally ended in mid-sentence, I have no idea whether you read
through to the end of mine to find my "disclaimer". I'll repeat it here in case
you missed it.

> Of course, all of the above was written with my tongue firmly
> imbedded in my cheek.  In fact, I rather enjoyed reading David's
> IAL _sketch_.  It's quite interesting.  But, I maintain that it
> is no more a language than the CliffsNotes for "War and Peace" is
> a novel.  It is, however, a great start.  Maybe by the time
> David's sister is old enough to appreciate it, it actually will
> be a language.
I intentionally created my own parody of a sketch in order to poke fun at it
because I had no substantive criticisms of your sketch. I thought yours was
quite good and I said as much. My point was that any such sketch will
inevitably have too many holes in it to qualify as a language. (I did find it
curious that you felt compelled to fill the holes in MY sketch. Curious
indeed).

Somewhere along the line I managed to inadvertently bruise you ego and for that I
apologize. But the tone of your last response was a clear indication that this
discussion is at an end.

Let's move along.

David