Zephie
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Sat Sep-17-11 07:40 AM
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Breakdown of Internet Arguments |
HopeHoops
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Sat Sep-17-11 10:18 AM
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1. Old faithful: "Poopie head" |
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Sat Sep-17-11 11:48 AM
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2. Excellent graphic. The top 3 are known to me almost only in the abstract n/t |
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Sat Sep-17-11 12:16 PM
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3. Yeah well what do you know? It's not like you're an expert in the subject. |
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That was my ad hominem example. :)
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Sat Sep-17-11 12:32 PM
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4. I'm *very* familiar with the bottom 4, including ad hominem. |
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It's the positive/constructive ones I seldom see. Usually I see any or all of the negative ones in the "keystone" or very first Reply to most of my threads.
First look at your Reply gave me the familiar knot in the stomach, but all's good now.
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Sat Sep-17-11 12:52 PM
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5. Check this exact development here |
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http://nadinbrzezinski.posterous.com/on-solyndra-energy-the-usps-and-the-mediaNo serious it followed exactly that, all the way to calling the visitor on his use of fallacies. Textbook
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Sat Sep-17-11 01:34 PM
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Sat Sep-17-11 01:38 PM
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Lowest rung: Polyglotic name-calling.
:evilgrin:
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Sat Sep-17-11 02:37 PM
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8. "You are an asshat" is correct grammar. "Your an asshat, asshat!" is more likely. |
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Oops, the pyramid is missing me: The Grammar Nazi...
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Sat Sep-17-11 07:32 PM
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9. care to post a link to back that up? |
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Sun Sep-18-11 03:59 AM
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10. Let us accord all due respect to the last two tiers. There have been |
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some very great masters of those arts, for instance the wit of Johnson, the sallies of Swift, Rabelais, the Algonquin Circle, and so on.
Character assassination and the associated obloquies can be quite entertaining, at least for other than its victim. Actually, even for its victim if a large personality.
History has its examples of people made immortal as the butts of wit. There are worse fates. We wouldn't often think of Mr Diaper otherwise.
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