Posted by gardenergirl on July 27, 2008, at 18:51:58
In reply to Re: Ah, there's the pragmatic I lack, posted by toph on July 27, 2008, at 17:11:54
> > Way more effective than idealistic, and much less ambiguous "tone". An excellent model and excellent post.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > gg
>
> The use of quotation marks is unnecessary and exactly the kind of attitude to which I was referring gg. Its a style that someone could find provocative, annoying and uncivil, but probably not the adminstration.Thanks for pointing that out so, well, pointedly. I still recall your earlier remarks on this topic, and I'm not disagreeing with you. Well, except for this part: the use of quotes was necessary for me, as I was quoting your word choice instead of using my own. In this case, it also indicates that I read your post. I had a reaction to it just as you appear to have had a reaction to mine.
I think the more interesting and perhaps, dare I say, pragmatic issue, instead of debating, discussing, characterizing, talking about, intimating, judging the behavior of others, is what will our behavior choice be? That's all we have under our own control, after all.
gg
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