Path: ...!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Tony Cooper Newsgroups: sci.lang,alt.usage.english Subject: Re: PTD was the most-respected of the AUE regulars ... Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2024 18:15:22 -0400 Lines: 55 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net ybXfHciLUWyQZ7xzIqMn6gpbYOpcgLR2rrG2q14RMsFqLBLq6D Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZeAPeRhQP+mdDargC9PjWpiRAQg= sha256:z0tvLyH+ObTHx7ENIDoJHfYQ1kyonBeFFHqkbv5xSJ4= User-Agent: ForteAgent/7.20.32.1218 X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 240726-2, 7/26/2024), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Bytes: 3208 On Fri, 26 Jul 2024 15:08:25 -0600, lar3ryca wrote: >On 2024-07-26 02:51, Antonio Marques wrote: >> Steve Hayes wrote: >>> On Thu, 25 Jul 2024 12:41:13 -0700, HenHanna >>> wrote: >>> >>>> On 7/22/2024 9:40 PM, Steve Hayes wrote: >>>>> PTD was a regular in sci.lang via Googlegroups, and suddenly jumped >>>>> into aue as a result of something that was crossposted there. >>>> >>>> When was that? >>> >>> I can't remember exactly, but probably about 15-20 years ago. >>> >>>>> The instance I remember most was when he denied that the town of El >>>>> Paso, Illinois, existed, and continued to deny its existence no matter >>>>> what evidence was put before him. >>> >>>> (thanks... i'll look that up) >>> >>>> The instance I remember most was when he (PTD) opined that Most >>>> Chinese words consisted of 2 Chinese characters. >>>> >>>> I and another person gave examples >>>> ("Wo ai ni", >>>> Wood, Water, sky, river, person, paper, ... >>>> Most basic words and verbs are 1-character) >>>> >>>> but that was when PTD became [quintessentially PTD]. >>>> >>>> >>>> i couldn't quite tell >>>> 1. if he was convinced of some fact, info, or assertion, or >>>> 2. if he was just being like a 5 year old boy. >> >> 3. He was right (as usual), as in this specific case. That some of the core >> vocabulary is the shortest applies to almost any language and as such is >> not relevant to the discussion. >> >>> In his own field he had some useful information, but outside his field >>> he could be very dogmatic about things that he simply got wrong. >>> >> >> People desperately tried to jump on every unqualified statement of his for >> some interpretation that would make him 'wrong'. > >When he did things like claiming that he never said something, and the >proof of his having said it was obvious, especially so when what he said >was actually quoted in his posting denying it, there was no >'desperately' involved. I think "People jumped in frustrated by PTD's misstatements..." better described the reaction to PTD's many unqualified statements.