Jeff Law wrote:
> On 11/25/09 12:41, Dennis Clarke wrote:
>>
>> Gentlemen, a point of order please.
>>
>> Let us not degrade into a base argument
> I don't see anything in this discussion that's out of the ordinary for
> this group of engineers. We've had (and will certainly have) far more
> heated discussions on more important issues.
I'd just like to add that I didn't take any offense at the quoted text(*)
from Richard G's response to me, nor see it as even intemperate or harsh; it's
nothing more than a bit of minor hyperbole to emphasise the point, a
bog-standard rhetorical technique in entirely everyday use.
cheers,
DaveK
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(*) - which you left unattributed and may appear in your out-of-context quote
to be something that I wrote.
