"Child" wrote in message
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"Edward Dolan" wrote in message
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Not really! Man is THE creature of the word. No other animal has words.
Speaking and writing words is also an action. Your contempt for words
marks
you as an ignoramus of the first rank.

Do you not recall what I said about the Jews being the people of the
Book.
There is nothing in that Book except words. Without the Book, the Jews
would
most likely not even exist today. They would have gone extinct long ago
with
all those other ancient peoples.

LOL, you don't understand jews at all. Its not the WORDS, its the IDEAS.
Being able to express ideas and debate ideas is key - whether you can
write
"properly" isn't. Its all about verbal debate, not about the written
word.
We jews love to argue. Thus, my love of debating you and others on
usenet.
And I do so in a conversational manner - as if we were speaking. Again,
its
part of my heritage.

Those ideas would not even exist had they not been written down in words and
then loving preserved by the Jews as their sacred text. Those peoples with
nothing but an oral tradition not only soon disappear from history, but they
are not even known except for their archeological artifacts. Of course words
represent ideas, but the words are inseparable from the ideas. It is not
even possible to think without words.

Conversation is not writing. They are two different things entirely. You are
writing on Usenet, you are not conversing.
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I am well respected in this newgroup - far better respected than you are.
Professionally, I write well, and am well respected by my peers for it. I
stand just fine, despite preferring to write newsgroup conversation like
real human interaction.

You know there is at least one person on this group who does not think much
of you because of your contempt for the written word. There are no doubt
many others here who do not think much of you for this reason also. There
are always costs exacted for defying convention. Those who do not know
better can be excused. Those who know better can never be excused.

I do not see any relationship between Usenet and real human interaction. We
are essentially writing letters to one another which the whole world can
read and get in on. It simply boggles my mind that you cannot realize this
and act accordingly (write better). I believe your family of scholars would
be ashamed of you if they knew you were carrying on in this disgraceful
manner (not writing better).

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Regards,

Ed Dolan - Minnesota