Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: lar3ryca Newsgroups: sci.lang,alt.usage.english Subject: Re: PTD was the most-respected of the AUE regulars ... Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2024 15:08:25 -0600 Organization: Sedimentary Lines: 54 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2024 23:08:27 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="4c48558588b50cbbb790c6db4c15951f"; logging-data="3147044"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+FJ5nLhwZcO+uQUioJT+jjYVcaXhK6O2I=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:63QzZmL3NIGZs6Qilbp1Aat6cl4= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-CA Bytes: 3195 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. -- Blame Saint Andreas -- it's all his fault.