Congrats on derailing another post needlessly.




M. Omer GOLGELI



July 15, 2020 12:41 AM, "Antony Stone" 
<antony.st...@spamassassin.open.source.it> wrote:

> On Tuesday 14 July 2020 at 23:23:29, Martin Gregorie wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 2020-07-14 at 22:59 +0200, Antony Stone wrote:
>> On Tuesday 14 July 2020 at 21:46:11, Martin Gregorie wrote:
>>> This info should include lots of black (hashmarks, asterisks etc).
>> 
>> You should be careful of the language you use these days, especially
>> on this list.
>> 
>> Yes, I am being sarcastic about what you wrote, but I'm also being
>> serious about the apparent power of the language police.
>> 
>> I don't underestimate the power of the thought police (McCarthy was the
>> standout example of *THAT*) or their, sometimes wilful, ignorance. You
>> know what I meant, but if I'd written something like "include big blocks
>> of attention-getting high-density characters", might that be interpreted
>> as an attack on the comprehensionally challenged?
> 
> 1. Yes, and those sectors of society defending the mentally deficient might be
> somewhere back in the queue waiting their turn to have a bit of a go at us for
> talking like this
> 
> 2. My comment was not aimed at you in any way at all - it was an observation
> to other people on this list about a different discussion thread which you may
> have noticed in recent days (which, ironically enough, does include big blocks
> of attention-getting high-density characters in its subject line).
> 
> Antony.
> 
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