On 18/05/2008, Mike Godwin mgodwin@wikimedia.org wrote:

Thomas writes:

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Expressing disagreement with someone involves saying, in some form or other "I think you are wrong." That is criticism, and it's of a person, thus it's personal criticism. Perhaps we're using different definitions of "criticise"? (In addition to different spellings ;))

I think it's more likely that we're using different definitions of "personal."

That's entirely possible. I mean "of a person", what do you mean?

If you believe I'm using the wrong definition of "personal" or "criticize," please be assured that I don't take it as a personal criticism.

Well, I would. However, I think you're just using a *different* definition, not wrong one. I would call that a misunderstanding, rather than a disagreement.