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Re: New Moon, Perigee, and Solstice
From: Frank Reed CT
Date: 2004 Jan 7, 04:50 EST
From: Frank Reed CT
Date: 2004 Jan 7, 04:50 EST
Trevor K last week wrote:
" It was Frank who claimed that it was quite precise."
And I wrote in reply:
" Ahem. When did I say that?! I seem to "say" many things on this list that I've never said."
Trevor K. then replied:
"For my part, I do not take to being called a liar, which is how I interpret the above."
Oy vey. That's the same error repeated, Trevor. I didn't call you a liar. You mis-stated what I had said previously. I *never* said "quite precise". That was your interpolation --your personal translation of my word "do-able". Please do not put words in my mouth.
You concluded:
"Are we now to understand that you are withdrawing your original claim? Or do you propose to offer some way of splitting hairs so as to contort your meaning into something that you are willing to stand by?"
Nope. I wrote "do-able". You converted that into "quite precise". Is it too much to ask that my original words stand as they were written?? I really don't think that it is.
Frank E. Reed
[X] Mystic, Connecticut
[ ] Chicago, Illinois
" It was Frank who claimed that it was quite precise."
And I wrote in reply:
" Ahem. When did I say that?! I seem to "say" many things on this list that I've never said."
Trevor K. then replied:
"For my part, I do not take to being called a liar, which is how I interpret the above."
Oy vey. That's the same error repeated, Trevor. I didn't call you a liar. You mis-stated what I had said previously. I *never* said "quite precise". That was your interpolation --your personal translation of my word "do-able". Please do not put words in my mouth.
You concluded:
"Are we now to understand that you are withdrawing your original claim? Or do you propose to offer some way of splitting hairs so as to contort your meaning into something that you are willing to stand by?"
Nope. I wrote "do-able". You converted that into "quite precise". Is it too much to ask that my original words stand as they were written?? I really don't think that it is.
Frank E. Reed
[X] Mystic, Connecticut
[ ] Chicago, Illinois
