Re: PTD was the most-respected of the AUE regulars ...

On Fri, 26 Jul 2024 15:08:25 -0600, lar3ryca <larry@invalid.ca> wrote:

On 2024-07-26 02:51, Antonio Marques wrote:

Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> wrote:

On Thu, 25 Jul 2024 12:41:13 -0700, HenHanna <HenHanna@devnull.tb>
wrote:
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On 7/22/2024 9:40 PM, Steve Hayes wrote:

PTD was a regular in sci.lang via Googlegroups, and suddenly jumped
into aue as a result of something that was crossposted there.

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When was that?

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I can't remember exactly, but probably about 15-20 years ago.
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The instance I remember most was when he denied that the town of El
Paso, Illinois, existed, and continued to deny its existence no matter
what evidence was put before him.

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(thanks... i'll look that up)

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The instance I remember most was when he (PTD) opined that Most
Chinese words consisted of 2 Chinese characters.
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I and another person gave examples
("Wo ai ni",
Wood, Water, sky, river, person, paper, ...
Most basic words and verbs are 1-character)
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but that was when  PTD  became  [quintessentially PTD].
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i couldn't quite tell
1. if he was  convinced of some fact, info, or assertion, or
2. if he was  just being like a 5 year old boy.

 
3. He was right (as usual), as in this specific case. That some of the core
vocabulary is the shortest applies to almost any language and as such is
not relevant to the discussion.
 

In his own field he had some useful information, but outside his field
he could be very dogmatic about things that he simply got wrong.
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People desperately tried to jump on every unqualified statement of his for
some interpretation that would make him 'wrong'.

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When he did things like claiming that he never said something, and the
proof of his having said it was obvious, especially so when what he said
was actually quoted in his posting denying it, there was no
'desperately' involved.

I think "People jumped in frustrated by PTD's misstatements..." better
described the reaction to PTD's many unqualified statements.