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Re: Test Your Reading Comprehension On This, Cyrus
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But I've always found his political writing virtually unreadable and indecipherable. The present citation is no exception. So I guess I fail the reading comprehension test. What, exactly, do you think Buckley is saying here? [/ QUOTE ] He's just quoting another's writing;-) Seriously, I had to look up "tendentious," "apostasis," and "apodictic" on www.dictionary.com . It was a worthwhile experience;-) I'll say one thing: we see a great many tendentious posts on the 2+2 politics forum [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] |
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Re: Test Your Reading Comprehension On This, Cyrus
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I'll say one thing: we see a great many tendentious posts on the 2+2 politics forum [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] [/ QUOTE ] That's an apodictic statement if I ever heard one. |
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Re: Bunch of good news from Iraq
I bet you are frothing at the mouth waiting for the death toll to hit 3000 so you can throw another party like you did at 2000 and 1000.
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Re: The future of semi-stable democracies like \"New Iraq\"
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"damn" US troops ?? [/ QUOTE ] Whoosh... [ QUOTE ] Saddam Hussein as the "best option" to hold the region together? [/ QUOTE ] Yep. Think about it for a moment. Washington used to rely for stability on tinpot dictators for close to fufty years. There were no moral qualms, then, as I recall. |
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MMMMMM\'s happy typing
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I had to look up "tendentious," "apostasis," and "apodictic". [/ QUOTE ] I had to look up only the first. It's glossological, you wouldn't understand. |
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Proof-proof
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That's an apodictic statement if I ever heard one. [/ QUOTE ] In order to make an apodictic statement, one would have to provide some apodixis, even if it's supposed to be self-evident. MMMMMM could not provide an apodixis for his claims if his life depended on it. [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img] |
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Grand ol\' party
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I bet you are ... waiting for the death toll to hit 3000 so you can throw another party like you did at 2000 and 1000. [/ QUOTE ] Where was that party? I was not invited. ...Oh you mean the coffin-arrival welcoming ceremonies? I thought those things were off, as being "un-patriotic"! |
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Re: Test Your Reading Comprehension On This, Cyrus
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Seriously, I had to look up "tendentious," "apostasis," and "apodictic" on www.dictionary.com . It was a worthwhile experience;-) [/ QUOTE ] Er, I meant "protasis", not "apostasis." ;-) ;-) ;-) |
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