From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Quadibloc Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: *** Dr G Polya BRILLIANTLY analyses the Virgina Shooting Incident *** Date: 28 Apr 2007 07:46:10 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1177771570.535837.199190__39582.9839901582$1177774463$gmane$org@p77g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> References: <1177266754.126153.202760@b58g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> <1177287460.376404.323520@b58g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> <1177416547.394200.314950@r3g2000prh.googlegroups.com> <1177430456.620057.190820@n15g2000prd.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1177774463 25732 80.91.229.12 (28 Apr 2007 15:34:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 15:34:23 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 28 17:34:21 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HhowH-0001or-Ki for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 17:34:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hhp2F-0002CA-Kq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 11:40:31 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newshub.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!p77g2000hsh.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design, sci.optics, comp.text.tex, comp.lang.python, gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 29 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.234.170.98 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1177771570 3897 127.0.0.1 (28 Apr 2007 14:46:10 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 14:46:10 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <1177430456.620057.190820@n15g2000prd.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90; .NET CLR 1.1.4322),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: p77g2000hsh.googlegroups.com; posting-host=216.234.170.98; posting-account=iYorygwAAABh_sJqNDMvFdsA7EcFurwY Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu sci.electronics.design:733636 sci.optics:94829 comp.text.tex:349108 comp.lang.python:492844 gnu.emacs.help:147713 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:43316 Archived-At: bill.slo...@ieee.org wrote: > On Apr 24, 2:09 pm, Quadibloc wrote: > > I never thought that I would feel the urge to call someone an > > edelweiss-eating Tanzanian devil, but Dr. Polya proved that I lacked > > imagination. . > The effect is - in fact - more severely damaged by your confusion > between Tasmania - where Dr. Polya actually lives - and Tanzania which > is a country in Africa with a name similar enough to confuse semi- > literate Americans. . Had you read his essay, as I did, you would have known that even if I had had the two countries confused previously, Dr. Polya would have disabused me of any such confusion before I finished his essay. Rather, the point of my remark, as ought to be clear, was that such an epithet - by displaying conspicuous disregard for the distinction between Tasmania and Tanzania, and the distinction between Australia and Austria, *both at the same time* - is intended to be insulting, and the author's vituperative attack on the United States makes him deserving of insult. Australia - Tasmania included - would today be under the iron heel of Imperial Japan had it not been for the armed might of the United States of America! John Savard