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- Fri Nov 02, 2007 12:17 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Respect
- Replies: 131
- Views: 1309117
So if there's a discussion going on and you start wrecking it, anyone who doesn't like it has to get out. Incorrect. I said YOU should choose to both not read MY posts and stay out of threads that upset you. You choose. The most important thing is that silver56 is allowed to stay on top, beating hi...
- Fri Nov 02, 2007 10:46 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Respect
- Replies: 131
- Views: 1309117
Only because you are determined to see it that way! Your determination to see things a certain way has kept you posting in this thread, hasn't it? I'm all for language discussions. But "discussion" is hardly the word I'd use to describe many of your posts. Conclusion: don't read or respond to them....
- Fri Nov 02, 2007 9:37 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Respect
- Replies: 131
- Views: 1309117
Of course not, but neither is "don't feel intimidated". You seem to feel otherwise but can't explain why. I explained why: it sounds wussie. You cling onto straw men harder than I ever saw anyone cling on to a teddy . LOL! I see you clinging on to this thread more than most others. Now, are you rea...
- Fri Nov 02, 2007 8:14 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Respect
- Replies: 131
- Views: 1309117
Maybe you would like to explain how anyone who understands English can interpret "keep posting and don't feel intimidated" (which is basically what I said) How about "feel imtimidated by all means - life and language conflicts can get rough after all - but get over it quickly and keep posting". Now...
- Fri Nov 02, 2007 7:41 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Respect
- Replies: 131
- Views: 1309117
- Fri Nov 02, 2007 7:40 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Respect
- Replies: 131
- Views: 1309117
- Fri Nov 02, 2007 7:38 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Respect
- Replies: 131
- Views: 1309117
How anyone with more than basic literary skills and a rudimentary grasp of the English language can interpret my post as a call for "applied wussying" is beyond me Hm. Would your post be attacking the idea or the person, there, lolwuss? I agree with Lucy that Stephen is rude, but rigorous, . Would ...
- Thu Nov 01, 2007 8:58 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Respect
- Replies: 131
- Views: 1309117
I am afraid if you banned metal56 there would not be much linguistics left on this forum. We would just have vapid feel-good fluff from people like yourself and FH (whose posts I gave up reading a couple of years ago). This is a linguistics forum, not a substitute teddy bear. Indeed not. Who was it...
- Thu Nov 01, 2007 7:45 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Respect
- Replies: 131
- Views: 1309117
How dare somebody with only half a dozen posts to her name insult a fellow linguist! Close ranks, lads! :lol: Lucy - keep posting and don't let anyone intimidate you! We need more posters, not fewer. That's it, the forum for applied wussying is on its way. You might get to be mod, lolwhiteas. Would...
- Thu Nov 01, 2007 7:43 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Respect
- Replies: 131
- Views: 1309117
I guess from your much-reduced posting rates these past few years that you didn't read or want to respond to many of metal's posts either, SJ. Could it be that he (too?) in fact makes less of a positive or useful contribution than you're now making out (he does)? How dare somebody with only half a ...
- Thu Nov 01, 2007 7:41 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Respect
- Replies: 131
- Views: 1309117
I know it isn't pretty when well-to-do, middle-class and university educated ESL teachers gang up on a working class person However, moderator, I think the time has come to act. You warned him, and he threw it in your face. It seems to me that the tribe has spoken. Metal 56 has been voted out. I'm ...
- Fri Oct 26, 2007 8:11 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: The clownfish is no happier...
- Replies: 29
- Views: 113040
I see what SJ means: He's not an angel. He's no angel. The first is what he isn't but we don't know what he is: he may be a cherub. The second is what he is: unangelic. How about here: What's her little boy like? Is he well-behaved? Well, he's no saint/not a saint, but, yes, he's reasonably well-be...
- Fri Oct 26, 2007 6:30 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: The clownfish is no happier...
- Replies: 29
- Views: 113040
So "I'm not happier" is what I'm not without saying what I am, but "I'm no happier" is what I am: as happy as before. I'm not happier than I was a year ago." sounds like "true" negation. Sound like negation of something that has gone before, e.g. a comment, thought, assumption, etc. "I'm no happier...
- Thu Oct 25, 2007 2:22 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: The clownfish is no happier...
- Replies: 29
- Views: 113040
- Thu Oct 25, 2007 10:04 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: The clownfish is no happier...
- Replies: 29
- Views: 113040
And: "The biggest sort of these were not bigger than larks, some no bigger than wrens, all singing with great variety of fine shrill notes; and..." Jespersen says that not above 30 means either 30 or less than 30, but no more than means "as little as" and no less than means "a much as". He gives an ...