Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Gary McGath Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.sf.fandom Subject: Re: Babel Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 19:07:56 -0400 Organization: Mad Scientists' Union Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 23:07:56 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="b1bd4724602e76b3d97e979cc8134f4c"; logging-data="4060127"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX181kJuUoh7RG8V5JkkToXSXr3kkiXNRmsQ=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:WBpDT/RqDygi6dk6N1jrU68UkPo= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2050 On 3/28/24 12:14 PM, Paul S Person wrote: > On Wed, 27 Mar 2024 17:46:50 -0400, Tim Illingworth > wrote: > >> On 3/27/2024 7:47 AM, Cryptoengineer wrote: >> >>> >>> Regardless of nigglined edge cases, the point remains. Russia has >>> been invaded many times in history, while the US mainland has not. >>> >>> pt >>> >> December 1814 not count? > > As a "nigglened edge case", it would. If it had happened and was not > part of the War of 1812 which, in a time when communications were far > from instantaneous, dragged on for a bit. > > And thanks for illustrating that even a clear point can be ignored by > people fanatically insistent on refuting it. And now you're treating getting the month wrong as being "fanatically insistent." *plonk* -- Gary McGath http://www.mcgath.com