In a message dated 6/08/2000 8:54:52 AM, Rob G. wrote: <<"I NEVER said that "all Chinese pianos are @&%#%!!" I believe the point was that THIS Chinese piano was a @&%#%. That's my story and I'm sticking with it no retraction.">> Ah Rob! Not only are you an insensitive brute, ethnically speaking, but.... but NOW you are mixing your "doohickeys" and "thingees". You in fact did NOT say "@&%#%!!" what you said was ,"@&%#%*!!", which is an entirely different thingee,..... that is entirely different doohickey for Dave. :-) Now to a world class PC expert the "*" being circular,indicates a global reference, i.e., ALL of anything...in the instant case the interpretation could be that 'ALL Chinese pianos are "@&%#%!!" and since you said it..ergo you said ALL. OK? got that? Now the fact that you also used the noun form/indefinite article "a", which is definitely a limiter in scope, in conjunction with the immediately following pronoun/adjective, "this" which is a specific identifier, shall not be an excuse for your gross insensitivity. We shall read what we read rather than read what you wrote ....it has ever been thus and thus shall ever be Butterfly...said another way.... It ain't yo problem Rob. Cept of course y'all gonna have to retract yo "no retraction" statement cause you din said what yu'ns said you said....right? :-) Jim Bryant (FL)
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