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Strategies & Market Trends : Bob Brinker: Market Savant & Radio Host -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ken Brown who wrote (3873)	3/7/1998 3:57:00 PM
From: Boca_PETE	Respond to of 42834

Ken: re: <Can't we keep the vocabulary down to a simpler level?> I agree. Sesquipedalianism obfuscates pellucidity. P

To: Ken Brown who wrote (3873)	3/7/1998 7:03:00 PM
From: wooden ships	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 42834

Ken: You may have occasion to resort to a Latin dictionary whilst perusing this thread. However, blessedly, we have with us here one Mr. Thomas Carroll, a classics' scholar of the first rank. Thomas provides us the last word on the matters of Latin and Greek which matters surface from time to time. To recall it, "ad hominem" is Latin for "to the man." It refers to arguments which stray from a strategy of issue and point oriented debate to a strategy of personal attack on one or more of the discussants. Some say that ad hominem arguments are a sign of argumentative weak- ness. By the way, I enjoy your posts. Meanwhile, from what I gathered of today's radio show, Brinker remains doggedly bullish and expects the market to reach or eclipse the DJIA $9000 level anno Domini 1998.

To: Ken Brown who wrote (3873)	3/9/1998 3:37:00 PM
From: Hank Stamper	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42834

"Hey, c'mon guys. I'm just a poor programmer with a 4 yr college degree. Can't we keep the vocabulary down to a simpler level? PS - I am kidding ... but not about having to consult my dictionary (which, I might add, doesn't have "ad hominem", so I'm still in the dark!)." So, I guess Latin ain't a programming language. I have a friend who taught himself C and the first functional program he wrote parsed English text into pig Latin. That probably doesn't count either. I wonder what the program would have done with, "Dippy, you're so stupid...."? Regards, David