too bad. The thread contained several of my questions I was hoping you would
answer. I have to assume you simply don't have answers, only rhetoric.
>SB>Please address me directly. Speaking about me in the third person is
>>extremely rude and doesn't really help your case.
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>There is no intention to be rude, indeed my intention is to *minimise*
>rudeness. As stated in my first message I will post all my messages
>to the Group, in order to minimise the personal factor:
It doesn't work. All it does is make you sound like you are ignoring someone
who is speaking to you and talking past them as if they are not there. What
*ever* you post to this list is read by several (but not all, I'm sure) of
the members of the list. You don't need to make a special effort to address
them.
>However, I will still keep posting to the Group, and I would encourage others
>to do likewise. If everybody did this, it would make it a more scholarly
>debate.
Talking past someone who is addressing you will not make the debate more
scholarly. Only scholarship will do that.
Susan
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