--- "Poor, Edmund W" Edmund.W.Poor@abc.com wrote:

I wish people would stop putting words in my mouth. The last batch of words was dusty, and this batch was sour. I'm running out of Listerine :-)

If anyone (a) isn't sure what I mean, and (b) needs to be sure, why not ask me? I l-o-v-e repeating myself, amplifying my meaning, waxing prosaic, etc.

Half the time I'm not even sure what I myself am thinking. Is there anyone so good at reading minds that they can discern what another person is thinking? Over the Internet? Get real.

Its an interesting point you bring up. I will get the UMRK on it right away. Its funny isnt it, how much we can tell about each other, just by the words they write. Its a very intimate sort of way of communication --one who's (/?/personal posessive for a machine process?/?/) change upon the society has yet to be looked at qualitatively. I remember going to school just as computers were starting to become useful -- no internet, not a lot of them around --slow as hell, etc. It may be that web communication, acts socially, in a way that provides some validation for some of the non-linear thinking thats gets expressed in terms like "metaphysical" or "extra-physical" communication.

~S~

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Ed Poor wrote:

I wish people would stop putting words in my mouth.

Since I was one of those people, let me say this up front:

If I ever claim that somebody meant something, or said something (other than with a direct quotation), what I mean is that this is what I believe that they meant, on the basis of what they literally said. And furthermore, the person in question is invited to correct me if I am wrong.

In this particular case, I apologise to Ed that I was wrong.

-- Toby