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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: The Philosopher who wrote (23503)	8/20/2001 6:43:54 PM
From: Constant Reader	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

You have the OED, don't you? Look it up. My very average dictionary says mention is a transitive verb meaning: 1) to cite or refer to incidentally 2) to refer to by name, especially as an acknowledgment or to show appreciation

To: The Philosopher who wrote (23503)	8/20/2001 9:16:42 PM
From: E	Respond to of 82486

X never took the position that she had a distaste for truth, justice, human values, or principles. She took positions that others, using their own definitions, not X's, extrapolate, hostilely, X being their enemy, to mentioning a distaste for the noble nouns. It is demonizing her to say she described herself as having a distaste for those things. She didn't. Did not. Hostilely tendentious extrapolations and conclusions are not properly offered as self-descriptions. Give them. But don't say X described herself that way. About your saying I mentioned something I didn't, but that you feel pretty sure is close enough to accurate that I wouldn't object to it? If you do put words in my mouth when they are in fact extrapolations, the final judge of whether you got it right or not will rightfully be I. You do agree with that, don't you? Extrapolate frankly until the cows come home. Don't say I said it about myself if I didn't.