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Originally Posted by Alan Kaufman
Your responses, in fact, are amazingly similar, as though formed from the same pool of 50 or so monosyllabic words.
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Sir,
Better monosyllabic but grounded in hard facts, than overflowing with metaphor, but based solely on your overwrought imagination. You have got an audience of sorts here, which may in fact be larger than the audience your book has managed to attract. Why not use the occasion to actually argue your case instead of just coming up with ever more imaginative invective and threatening to beat the crap out of your critics? That's no way to win over a hostile crowd. Take me for example. I'm nowhere near as good with words as you. And I've had my share of disagreements on this board. I'm also 6 foot 3, 220 pounds, have been doing mixed martial arts for years, and I'm a quarter of century younger than you. Yet you don't see me inviting my detractors to come over to Kiev so that I could beat them up. Practicalities aside, such a step would probably fail to impress my intellectual superiority, such as it is, on said detractors. I suspect it's not going to work for you, either.