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Man, seriously, chill out. Neologisms are fine. Just like "patio11ian rate increase" is fine. As far as I can see you're just engaging in personal attacks an

Man, seriously, chill out. Neologisms are fine. Just like "patio11ian rate increase" is fine. As far as I can see you're just engaging in personal attacks and character assassination here while not saying much in the way of argument besides, "I'm more educated than you." I mean, you could just say something non-inflammatory like, "I'm confused, what do you mean by 'Damascean'?" and then when given an answer reply, "Oh I see, thanks. In theology circles 'Damascean' isn't really used to describe that situation." Anyway here's a counter-argument: the Bible has long been a work of popular culture outside of religion, this isn't a theology circle or a church, and if people want to lightly abuse the stories and language in it then so what? (I would have responded to your post where you say "strawmanning", but HN wouldn't let me. EDIT: You've now amended that post to say that the word is actually "Damascene". If you knew this, why all the drama? Something tells me that this was learned recently via Google.)

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- georgeorwell 14y ago
  When I read your other posts they came across as mean, arrogant, and holier-than-thou. This could be a limitation of the written word and my emotional projections onto it, it could be an accurate perception and a lack of self-awareness on your part, or it could be a mixture of both. My vote is for both. I'm willing to believe you thought and felt you were writing in jest and in mirth and were not trying to be cruel, but I'm saying it didn't come off that way to me and what seems like a few others. I would go through and highlight each sentence that reads as mean or belittling in some way, but it's literally every sentence, usually multiple times. (Except here, where you're being polite but defensive, which makes sense since I did criticize your actions.) At the very least, please just try to understand that telling someone that their words are "not the mark of a solid education" is abusive.
  - codewright 14y ago
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georgeorwell 14y ago
When I read your other posts they came across as mean, arrogant, and holier-than-thou. This could be a limitation of the written word and my emotional projections onto it, it could be an accurate perception and a lack of self-awareness on your part, or it could be a mixture of both. My vote is for both. I'm willing to believe you thought and felt you were writing in jest and in mirth and were not trying to be cruel, but I'm saying it didn't come off that way to me and what seems like a few others. I would go through and highlight each sentence that reads as mean or belittling in some way, but it's literally every sentence, usually multiple times. (Except here, where you're being polite but defensive, which makes sense since I did criticize your actions.) At the very least, please just try to understand that telling someone that their words are "not the mark of a solid education" is abusive.
- codewright 14y ago
  Feedback taken into account.