quoted 1 line ===== Original Message From edhall@weirdnoise.com =====
>===== Original Message From edhall@weirdnoise.com =====quoted 2 lines Saying you can't stand something is an opinion. Saying it
>Saying you can't stand something is an opinion. Saying it
>is garbage is an attempt to state an opinion as a fact.
FWIW, I would consider the second sentence above to be an attempt to state an
opinion as a fact. At the least you are doing exactly the same thing,
grammatically (using a passive mood over personal pronouns), so if grammatical
constructions are all that matter, you're just as guilty.
I tend to think that the key thing this kind of stuff misses by a country mile
is that people use language differently on mailing lists. Consider your
context. Some people carefully pick every word, others are more colloquial and
chatty. Saying "when you write this, this is the result" strikes me as
nonsense, if the massive amount of stylistic variation from poster to poster
is not considered.
All of that aside, there is a little philosophical buzzword called
"emotivism", which states that "X is good" and "I like X", when said by the
same speaker, are semantically equivelant. I don't want to muddy my above
comment by suggesting this is particularly relevant though, as my main point
is that it's impossible to know where any individual poster is coming from to
the degree you're ascribing above.
Michael
np. 'State of the Art Heirloom'
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