andrel <a_l### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> Before continuing this fight. Please remember Jim is a native speaker 
> and you are not. Which means that he may have a better knowledge of what 
> words actually mean in English but also that he may be forgetting that 
> that is not the language we are speaking here. The language here is that 
> ugly derivative known as international English/global English or 
> whatever you want to call it. By definition nobody is a native speaker 
> of that.
> Apart from the language issue there is also that issue of you not being 
> able to read his mind. My estimate is that there is no way you can win 
> that argument.

  I tried to explain myself as well as I could (about why vi is different
from regular text editors) and I really think that everybody does understand
what I mean. He (as well as Darren) deliberately chose to ignore what I was
saying and instead chose to nitpick about why "that's exactly what you do
with vi as well", completely ignoring the differences I was talking about.

  Well, that's fine, but when he gets all cocky and presumptuous and starts
yelling things like "don't you dare to tell me *blaa blaa*" it goes a bit
too far.

  Thus I asked him if he would have preferred that I call him stupid,
rather than assuming that he was just nitpicking on purpose. Fine by me
either way.

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                                                          - Warp

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