Re: An uncountable countable set

Han de Bruijn wrote:
Tony Orlow wrote:

Mike Kelly wrote:

Han de Bruijn wrote:

Mike Kelly wrote:

Han de Bruijn wrote:

Mike Kelly wrote:

What the hell are you talking about? Arguing with someone who can't
speak English is getting aggravating.

My English is much better than your Dutch.

So what? Your English is still too poor for this discussion to be
fruitful.

Still don't get the point, huh?

You are lacking even the most elementary form of politeness. It's very
impolite to cut of a discussion with somebody from a foureign country -
somebody who is doing his best to communicate with you - only because
you are obviously superior in expressing your thoughts within your own
mother's tongue.

You're a very rude person yourself, Han. I generally don't feel the
need to be civil to those who won't reciprocate.

I don't think I have ever found Han to be rude, except when he referred to my "babbling" recently. Ahem. But anyway, while we disagree on the actuality of any infinity, we have the open mind of spirited debate, and feel no need to get nasty.

I may be rude sometimes, but I never get _personal_ by calling somebody
an "idiot" or a "crank". Tony's "babbling" translates with Euroglot as
"babbelen" in Dutch, which is a word I can use here in the conversation
with my collegues without making them very angry (if I say "volgens mij
babbel je maar wat"). But, of course, I cannot judge the precise impact
of the word in English. Apologies if it is heavier than I thought.

Do you have the saying, "Shallow brooks babble, and still waters run deep"? I figured you picked up the usage from this forum, actually. It's meant, in English, to mean you aren't making any sense. :)


Furthermore, I have never had any trouble understanding what Han is saying, except where he is using some mathematical construct with which I am not familiar. His English is not bad, and blaming your disagreement on his inability to communicate is kind of low.

Thank you very much, Tony, for this sort of defense.

My pleasure. It seemed like a vacuous excuse. I get pretty sick of those diversionary tactics.


So, let's engage in lively debate, and maintain our civility, while chopping each other's arguments to pieces. Of course, this can only happen if we don't consider our arguments to be part of our anatomy. Otherwise, it gets personal.

You are misinterpreting virtually all my posts. You claim that you're
not dishonest so I have to conclude you're simply incapable of
comprehending written English. This makes this whole subthread
pointless.

I have only this kind of trouble with _you_ and nobody else on the web.

Really? You've never had anybody else other than me complain that you
misinterpret their posts? I suppose I must have hallucinated dozens of
posts I've seen of just that, then.

You've never had anyone other than me struggling to understand what the
devil you mean by your broken English? I must have hallucinated, for
example, "A little physics would be no idleness in mathematics", then
:)?

Well, that's a difficult type of quote. Han - I wouldn't mind working on exactly how you want to say that in English, if you like. :)

Uhm, since litteraly everybody is complaining ... Let it be an encrypted
message then :-)

Well, it seems to me that perhaps you're saying something like, "Those with their heads in the abstract should keep their feet in the concrete", though that sounds a little funny.

Math=Science?


Han de Bruijn



Tony
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