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No doubt about Chomsky.




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> 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.
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> 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.
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>>>>> 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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