Posted by Els on 07/31/06 10:00

TC wrote:

> Els wrote:
>
>> I think that if she would have said 'no, it's not a good point', you
>> wouldn't have had a problem understanding her understanding of this
>> non-problem, right? ;-)
>
> Maybe. But the number of double negatives is growing alarmingly, I'm
> not sure that I follow them now!
>
> When I said "good point", I was really just trying to be polite. I've
> learned through personal experience, that it's very easy for usenet
> arguments to get seriously out of hand. So these days, I generally pick
> my arguments fairly carefully. Consequently, I'm happy to concede a
> point that in fact, I would *not* concede, if push really came to
> shove.
>
> I still contend, that if someone wanted to argue that it was *not* a
> good point, they should have argued that to the person who actually
> made that point. That was the other person - not me!

So, this is the argument you're happy to pick then? ;-)
(I disagree! :p)

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