[Wikipedia-l] Re: Re: Wikipedia English English

[Mark Williamson]

1) I don't call people I disagree with barking mad, unless they really
are barking mad. I believe this is the first time in a few months I've
called anyone barking mad, and in the intervening time there have been
plenty of people with whom I've had disagreements. I think most people
on this list would agree that Mr Jack and Naree is "barking mad".

2) Yes, but how many of them? I never said with absolute certainty
that all of those were BS examples, only that much of the list was BS.
None of the examples which I made it clear I was fairly certain were
universal were objected to, and even many of the ones which were
objected to proved a point, for example "autumn" vs "fall": there's
one variant that's understood in both places, and another that is only
understood in one. Which one should be chosen?

3) Mr. Jack & Naree's most recent message is a bit daft ("looks like
he failed"). If he had the sense to check, he would see that that
message was not, in fact, a response to his "troll test" e-mail but
rather to his earlier e-mail which was written in all-caps. And, if it
takes two to troll, why is just about everybody else on this list
calling him a troll? Does that mean that they're all trolls too? And,
of course, this isn't a response to him, but a note to you which is
related to but not in response to his message. And if anyone so
wishes, I invite them to inform Mr Macdaddy that the troll test, from
now on, applies to him as well: if he IS a troll, he'll make another
post to this or related threads; if he ISN'T a troll, he won't.

Mark

On 23/09/05, Rowan Collins <rowan.collins at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 23/09/05, Mark Williamson <node.ue at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Arguing and trolling is one thing, but writing a response in all-caps
> > is another.
>
> Yes, so much worse than calling somebody you don't agree with "barking
> mad", only to find that the examples you are objecting to are verified
> by a number of other users. Hm...
>
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