Re: A fair and balanced look at sci.lang...

From: Alexander Gross (language_at_sprynet.com)
Date: 12/20/04 

Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 18:48:54 GMT

Dylan, i tried to send you the following twice via email but it came back
each time, which could mean that you don't have too efficient a way of
dealing with your email.

Anyway, here it is again. If this doesn't work, i may have no choice but to
post it on the group...

[which i have just done]

----------------

Dylan, please note that i've sent this message to you privately and not
posted it on the sci.lang group. i think you've done yourself a great
disservice by entering into this exchange for the following reasons:

1. You and i held a fairly prolonged & detailed on-line dialogue a few
years back, and whether we totally agreed with each other or not, we managed
to do so amicably & without the need for any insults.

2. This is in fact the way i normally communicate on groups where i have
played a constructive role over the past years. It would therefore be
reasonable for you to ask precisely why sci.lang should be an exception &
why PTD should be a major force in making it so.

4. Let's just take one more instance of PTD's totally unwarranted
assertions, one that ought to mean something to you since you are Chinese.
In a message he wrote on Jan. 13, 2001, PTD made it absolutely clear that he
regards all acupuncturists as frauds--which assuming you understand the
theories underlying chinese medicine (and i want to assume you do)--is
merely another way of saying that all of zhongyi is also fraudulent. i
would be surprised if you find such an opinion to be informed or even
defensible.

5. For no reason other than that you seem to be in a bad temper, you have
indicated that you regard my recently published article as not worthy of
your attention. Yet my good friend Apollo Wu, until recently chief Chinese
translation revisor at the UN in New York and now CEO of his own Hongkong
firm to promote Chinese in all its forms has read it and has only praise for
it. It is to a great extent about Chinese, and i would appreciate it if you
would reappraise your own reactions and look at it, as i suspect you will
enjoy it.

6. I would also ask you to consider that what you have dismissed as my
supposed waywardness on sci.lang is in fact just one manifestation of a far
larger international dissatisfaction within the world of linguistics. It is
a very real movement, and you can find out more about it from many different
websites, starting from the final entry under Linguistics on my own site.

I believe you owe me the courtesy of looking at my latest article before you
dismiss it on the basis of mere atmospherics you may not fully understand.
Once you have read it, i would be interested in hearing your reactions,
though i do not wish to embark on a prolonged correspondence about this
matter. The URL, once more, is:

http://accurapid.com/journal/30review2.htm

very best,

alex

visit the language home...

http://language.home.sprynet.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dylan Sung" <dylanwhs.tsktsktsk@pacific.net.hk>
Newsgroups: sci.lang
Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2004 4:49 AM
Subject: Re: A fair and balanced look at sci.lang...

>
> "Alexander Gross" <language@sprynet.com> wrote in message
> news:_C5xd.3551$Z47.796@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net...
> > Well, what with all the talk of "lying liars," i got all excited & was
> > about
> > to repost the final proof that PTD just might have a few skeletons in
his
> > closet. But i decided against it.
>
> Go on, post it. You know you want to.
>
>
> > After all, the holidays are now upon us,
> > and i decided to spare everyone. Anyway, i'd have to be around here
full
> > time to run herd on all the nonsense posted here by PTD & his fellow
> > stooges, and i have far better things to do than that.
>
> Do you? Then why this message to tantalise us? Why not put the money where
> your mouth is? Go on, make your Xmas extra special.
>
> Dyl.
>
>

"Dylan Sung" <dylanwhs.tsktsktsk@pacific.net.hk> wrote in message
news:32l168F3n23igU1@individual.net...
>
> "Alexander Gross" <language@sprynet.com> wrote in message
> news:_C5xd.3551$Z47.796@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net...
> > Well, what with all the talk of "lying liars," i got all excited & was
> > about
> > to repost the final proof that PTD just might have a few skeletons in
his
> > closet. But i decided against it.
>
> Go on, post it. You know you want to.
>
>
> > After all, the holidays are now upon us,
> > and i decided to spare everyone. Anyway, i'd have to be around here
full
> > time to run herd on all the nonsense posted here by PTD & his fellow
> > stooges, and i have far better things to do than that.
>
> Do you? Then why this message to tantalise us? Why not put the money where
> your mouth is? Go on, make your Xmas extra special.
>
> Dyl.
>
>

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