From: John Stanley (stanley@peak.org)
Date: Mon Nov 04 2002 - 12:47:21 CST
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz (Shmuel+gen@patriot.net):
>I wasn't claiming that the material you marked with ">"
>was bogus, but your disingenuous alleged paraphrase. As you well know.
and:
>No, I claimed that in addition to quoting me you lied about what I had
>written. As you well know.
Let's look at the tape, shall we? Here's another direct quote from you,
from Fri Oct 25 2002 - 00:36:22 CDT:
]Here's a nickle; buy yourself a dictionary and look up the word
]"quote". You didn't quote me; you lied about what I said.
There is no other way of reading the clause "You didn't quote me;" than as
a claim that I didn't quote you. I did quote you, as I've already shown,
and as anyone who looks in the archive can easily tell. I did not once
attribute to you words that you yourself did not write. "What you said"
appeared as you said it, sans changes.
>ALL THE WORDS ABOVE ARE YOURS, NOT MINE. IT IS NOT A QUOTE, ...
Since some of the "words above" in the message you replied to are a
direct quote from email you sent, your statement is patently false.
And since you wrote a lot of the words that appear above this claim, you
can't even try weasling out by saying you meant the words in the message
I'm now replying to. You wrote quite a bit of those words... which you now
claim are mine. What kind of game are you trying to play here?
But yes, the words I attibuted to you ARE a quote. Perhaps it is yourself
who needs to take a nickel and look up the definition of "quote"?
>I did admit my attitude. Instead of rebutting it, you invented a
>totally different attitude.
I quoted your statement verbatim. If that is "inventing" your attitude for
you, then you are in need of serious help.
I'm sorry you got caught saying something you didn't intend on saying. You
could save us a lot of time by just saying now "I didn't intend to say
that, I retract it", instead of denying you said it in the first place and
that I'm not quoting you when I quote you. If you intend a different
interpretation, say that, and stop short of calling me a liar when I quote
you verbatim, and stop telling me I didn't quote you when anyone with more
than an ounce of brains can tell that I did.
Are you enjoying this? You can stop anytime now. We all know who said what
and who is unhappy he is being quoted.