Jeff Law wrote: > On 11/25/09 12:41, Dennis Clarke wrote: >> >> Gentlemen, a point of order please. >> >> Let us not degrade into a base argument
> I don't see anything in this discussion that's out of the ordinary for > this group of engineers. We've had (and will certainly have) far more > heated discussions on more important issues. I'd just like to add that I didn't take any offense at the quoted text(*) from Richard G's response to me, nor see it as even intemperate or harsh; it's nothing more than a bit of minor hyperbole to emphasise the point, a bog-standard rhetorical technique in entirely everyday use. cheers, DaveK -- (*) - which you left unattributed and may appear in your out-of-context quote to be something that I wrote.