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   Message 17,429 of 19,138   
   Debra to Jon Gearhart   
   Re: a quick denial (2/2)   
   06 Mar 15 14:57:02   
   
   [continued from previous message]   
      
   When I first dropped my said post, one of the lines did not break   
   at the correct point and instead continued along the entire width   
   of the screen, putting it out of place with all of the other lines.   
   So when I saw this I took the time and effort to correct same   
   by redoing the post and then deleting the former flawed one,   
   see?    
      
   I always use groups.google.com to interface alt.anagrams   
   and I look at posts directly rather than receive them via my   
   email account. Thus unfortunately if I repost to make an   
   improvement or correction those persons who have chosen   
   to receive posts via their email account will see it at least   
   twice. Perhaps these persons, and yourself, might consider   
   to switch to looking at the posts directly rather than via an   
   email account?    
      
   As far as   
      
   > Constructive criticism=   
   > Victim counters critics   
      
   I would say that in general this is a great and worthwhile find, but   
   I would think the presentation would need to be   
      
   "Constructive" criticism =   
   Victim counters critics          
      
   [In other words, the criticism wasn't really constructive, and   
   [the victim of same counters the critics.   
      
   and   
      
   Constructive criticism =   
   "Victim" counters "critics"   
      
   [In other words, the criticism was constructive, but the target   
   [does not receive it as such and thus sees themself as being   
   [a victim when they really are not and thus sees the progenitors   
   [as being critics when they really are not.   
      
   I have applied here the writing technique of putting a word or phrase   
   within quotation marks to mean that the word or phrase is facetious,   
   so-called, not really so. Such a technique is called Scare Quotes.   
      
   Thank you again.   
      
   Debra Dee Freeman   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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