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By the way, as far as I know 'ouanquerre' is an alternate spelling of
wanker. Sort of like 'buncombe' (for bunkum). I certainly didn't invent
the word. Henry Mencken invented buncombe, maybe ouanquerre too.




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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.
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>>>>> 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.
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>>>> FWIW I think it was an appropriate question. It seems I'm not the only
>>>> one
>>>> who thought so.
>>>>
>>>> J.
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