glenng@dartvax.UUCP (Glenn C. Gabriel) (06/14/84)
surely ken perlow could stand to gain a bit more from my article than he demonstrates? we are dealing with issues, not details, correct? anyway, mr perlow had best channel his efforts into his french revolution and leave the present to those who are able to deal with it--that is, if he promises to spell things correctly. :-) glenn
ken@ihuxq.UUCP (ken perlow) (06/18/84)
-- >> surely ken perlow could stand to gain a bit more from my >> article than he demonstrates? we are dealing with issues, >> not details, correct? >> anyway, mr perlow had best channel his efforts into his >> french revolution and leave the present to those who are >> able to deal with it--that is, if he promises to spell >> things correctly. >> :-) glenn Several months ago I got into a net.nlang donnybrook with the proposition "If you can't write it right, you can't think it right." This being net.college, I'll just say "QED". If you tuned in late, Glenn (or is it glenn) posted a rambling diatribe, fraught with grammatical errors, about embarrassment caused by a nasty right-wing periodical called "The Review" on the Dartmouth campus. I posted a reply asking someone at that venerable institution to teach him some English. Glenn, dealing with the present is more than plucking two-chord harmonies on a cigar-box banjo and whining "life sure sucks." If you can't even deal with English syntax, you're going to have a hard time convincing anyone you can deal with complex issues. Effective communication does not simply explain, it motivates. If "The Review" is so outrageous, make me outraged. I think I'm on your side on this issue. What good does that, by itself, do you? Perhaps *YOU'D* do well, Glenn, to channel some effort into studying, if not the whole French Revolution, the life and works of Jean Paul Marat. Now *THERE* was an effective communicator. (Further debate on this ought to move to net.nlang. See you there.) -- *** *** JE MAINTIENDRAI ***** ***** ****** ****** 17 Jun 84 [29 Prairial An CXCII] ken perlow ***** ***** (312)979-7261 ** ** ** ** ..ihnp4!ihuxq!ken *** ***