[bvw]

Anyone who talks of a person hardly known and says about something that stranger claims to be or that the stranger claims have done "surely [he] never has." has an exceedingly light regard for what "surely" means.

That's pathological, I'd think. It is confusing emotionally driven flights of fancy with reality. Xenophobic.

Do you get out much "Doc"?

[Rudder]

Anyone who talks of a person hardly known and says about something that stranger claims to be or that the stranger claims have done "surely [he] never has." has an exceedingly light regard for what "surely" means.

Whoever wrote this has been hitting the sauce too much.

[Right Wing Professor]

Anyone who talks of a person hardly known and says about something that stranger claims to be or that the stranger claims have done "surely [he] never has." has an exceedingly light regard for what "surely" means.

I bet you intended that to be an intelligible sentence. Try it again. Keep it short and simple.