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[Jonathan Goodwin]

To verify my intuition that this was some type of phonetic attempt at
"wanker," I searched and saw that someone on another forum calling
himself "brunians" applied this epithet to Chomsky, thus verifying
another intuition I had.





On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:17 AM,  <brunians at brunians.org> wrote:
> I think it was an appropriate question: unfortunately, after I wrote it I
> wrote another sentence, which you elide, wherein I wondered if Jon was a
> ouanquerre, which remark I regretted.
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>>>> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 12:32 AM,  <brunians at brunians.org> wrote:
>>>>> Josh: So why don't you like the book, Jon? I understand from your
>>>>> article
>>>>> that you don't like it: that is abundantly obvious. But I think a
>>>>> review
>>>>> of
>>>>> this nature would be more useful if you would include a paragraph -
>>>>> even
>>>>> half a paragraph - where you give your reasons for not liking it.
>>
>>>> Jon: I thought I did in the post, but here it is again: I think the
>>>> book
>>>> (and several others) rely on the author's well-earned reputation for
>>>> subtlety to mask or adorn what are essentially undeveloped
>>>> pot-boilers. The time-travel aspect of Pirate Freedom illustrates this
>>>> nicely, I think.
>>
>>> Josh: i want to apologize for my last remark, which I was very wrong to
>>> pass.
>>> You are entitled to your opinion, of course, I was at the tail end of a
>>> frazzled day.
>>> I don't agree with you about Pirate Freedom, but these couple of
>>> sentences
>>> do make more clear your problems with the book.  Again, my apologies.
>>
>> FWIW I think it was an appropriate question. It seems I'm not the only one
>> who thought so.
>>
>> J.
>>
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