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Article #2827Re: *** Dr G Polya BRILLIANTLY analyses the Virgina Shooting Incident ***
From: Quadibloc
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 14:46
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 14:46
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bill.slo...@ieee.org wrote: > On Apr 24, 2:09 pm, Quadibloc <jsav...@ecn.ab.ca> wrote: > > I never thought that I would feel the urge to call someone an > > edelweiss-eating Tanzanian devil, but Dr. Polya proved that I lacked > > imagination. . > The effect is - in fact - more severely damaged by your confusion > between Tasmania - where Dr. Polya actually lives - and Tanzania which > is a country in Africa with a name similar enough to confuse semi- > literate Americans. . Had you read his essay, as I did, you would have known that even if I had had the two countries confused previously, Dr. Polya would have disabused me of any such confusion before I finished his essay. Rather, the point of my remark, as ought to be clear, was that such an epithet - by displaying conspicuous disregard for the distinction between Tasmania and Tanzania, and the distinction between Australia and Austria, *both at the same time* - is intended to be insulting, and the author's vituperative attack on the United States makes him deserving of insult. Australia - Tasmania included - would today be under the iron heel of Imperial Japan had it not been for the armed might of the United States of America! John Savard
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