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Maybe afew is only bilingual, unlike you Agnes?
As I did not contribute to afew's thread throwing in comments in Polish, German or whatever, I guess your comment Migeru was ignited by my mentioning the languages I could read and post in on another thread.
I sensed an underlying criticism in the above comment, but as I know I tend to be overly touchy, I left it rest.
That because I appreciate 99,9% of your posts, and I wouldn't want to lose them just because I may not feel good about the form of the 0,1% directed at me.

When through hell, just keep going. W. Churchill
by Agnes a Paris on Tue Jan 24th, 2006 at 07:02:20 AM EST
No, the comment was motivated by your teasing Afew for his failure to choose a more exciting (to you) non-English language for his experimental diary.
Well, afew, that was a good initiative to have a thread in a foreign language, but why did you chose that language I already find myself speaking all too much ?
If you wanted to discuss my comment, you could have done it on the thread that it was part of. I honestly don't know what the point is of taking a comment of mine out of context like that, except to troll-bait me.

guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Jan 24th, 2006 at 04:08:27 PM EST
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If you wanted to discuss my comment, you could have done it on the thread that it was part of.

Please, Migeru. She clearly explained why she felt uneasy discussing it. Emotional reasons. Possibly a fear of being accused of various internet crimes.

I honestly don't know what the point is of taking a comment of mine out of context like that, except to troll-bait me.

Then please think it over again. The correct (intended) interpretation of your comment is what is out of context here, the way she misunderstood it isn't.

Moreover, you are quoting her line out of context :-) As I read it, it was a half-joking remark.

I think I should add a point on humour to my draft in the ET Group Therapy Session thread.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Tue Jan 24th, 2006 at 06:30:49 PM EST
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The problem is that I'm getting jaded.

guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Jan 24th, 2006 at 06:33:26 PM EST
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Apparently it's ok to misinterpret people as long as you do it out of context?

And I am quoting her in what she said to elicit what she quotes, which I don't know how it can be construed to be out of contest.

guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Jan 25th, 2006 at 06:17:48 AM EST
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  1. You left out the :-) of the comment.
  2. Ask afew.


*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Wed Jan 25th, 2006 at 06:50:48 AM EST
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Touche.

Can we put this whole matter to rest? Or am I going to have to ask Jerome to make all my comments over the past 48 hours "editorial"?

guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Jan 25th, 2006 at 06:57:28 AM EST
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What's the point of learning, if you erase everything? The batch of embarrassment is a good teacher. ;)
by Nomad on Wed Jan 25th, 2006 at 10:29:05 AM EST
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Agnes, Migeru seems to have a real problem with form. I commented to him on the main part already, but let me 'translate' his second paragraph (or at least the way I read it).

If you (block)quote something or someone, it is always advisable to either link to the original or point out in words where it came from, so that others can look up the context. In particular, even without your intention, the above comment all alone seems something very offensive, and without source, I in fact first thought it may have been from another Migeru comment in this thread that was so bad it was deleted.

Second - most political (and not just political) internet forums are much wilder than ET, they are full of all kinds of offensive behaviour. Out-of-context quotes are a preferred weapon of trolls or 'normal' people piqued enough to troll someone. (I give an example: in one group I have been in, one chap preferred to enter every discussion a certain woman was in with quotes that seemed to show that she's lesbian and an anti-semite, where the fun fact was that she was actually Jewish. Or another, a creationist 'proved' my lack of understanding of astronomy by quoting half-sentences from me whose other half disproved his interpretation. Or another, me guilty too, I once drove an obnoxious Germanophobe freeper into despair by 'identifying' him with an also Germanophobe IHT pundit...) People 'schooled' by years of such experience (which presumably includes both me and Migeru) develop a(n over)sensitive 'radar' for such behavior. (Then again, knowing you and having been on ET for some time, Migeru should know better.)

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Wed Jan 25th, 2006 at 05:17:35 AM EST
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