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To: philman_36
What I'm bringing attention to is that English doesn't appear to be your native tongue

Based on one typo and the fact that I'm multilingual, huh? With your evidence bar set that low, it's no wonder you think the birth certificate is a forgery. Credible evidence flies so far over your head you need a telescope to see it.

instead of addressing what I wrote you decided to break off into a divergent tangent.

If I could have found a point in there worth addressing I would have addressed it.

First you seem obsessed with insinuating yourself into any conversation which has the audacity to mention (or not) your screen name without permission. Then you decide to play spelling^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H grammar Nazi. Then you launch into some supercilious, multi-post rant on some English idiom that, aside from its utter irrelevance to anything whatsover, in fact does in some dialects of English mean exactly what you claim it doesn't, strict grammatical analyses to the contrary notwithstanding. Guess what? Idioms do that. Get used to it.

And then you have the temerity to accuse me of changing the subject.

(And just to show you exactly how colossally, stupendously far off the mark you and your assumptions are, I have a masters in linguistics, over a decade of professional experience in English language education, and am about to publish my second English textbook. You, on the other hand, have ... umm ... what, exactly?)

Now, unless you actually have something to say that's not utterly vacuous, I have more important things to do with my time. Like staring at my walls.

288 posted on 07/01/2011 7:30:54 PM PDT by Nathanael1
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To: Nathanael1
(And just to show you exactly how colossally, stupendously far off the mark you and your assumptions are, I have a masters in linguistics, over a decade of professional experience in English language education, and am about to publish my second English textbook.
Now that is an appeal to authority. You finally got it right.
289 posted on 07/01/2011 7:48:31 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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