On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 02:03:09PM -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 07:00:25PM +0100, Timwi wrote:
Please stop using strawman arguments, especially to attack people who are trying to be helpful.
"Speak English or get lost" is not trying to be helpful.
It is also not even *remotely* what he said; hence my characterization of your argument as a strawman.
But perhaps you just want an argument. :-) Down the hall, door 6.
Ditto.
strawman/ad hominem: I wonder if Timwi got up on the wrong side of the bed today.
helpful statement: I really think discussion would be more productive if you didn't assume the worst from everyone, Timwi. I think we Wikipedians tend to call my proposed approach an assumption of good faith -- or is that Wikimedians?