The Fastest Age

To Ion's many skills we can add the ability to change history. Yes Ion, you did not insist that adding and subtracting was "simple calculus," and yes, you did not claim in several posts that everyone else was wrong, and yes, you did not claim that Biondi changed his name from Bondi, and yes, you do not try to point out the mote in everyone else's eyes so that we won't see the log in your own (note - biblical allusion inside of sarcasm.) Yes, it is the case that splitting up the unword ;) 'copeout' into 'cope' and 'out' will pass your spell checker, but that would be dumb, because the combination 'cope out' (two words that are difficult to imagine together) does not mean what you meant, which was 'copout.' Perhaps you think that 'cop' (also seen in the phrase 'cop a plea') is related to 'cope?' It is not, just as the root of calculus is not related to the root of calculate (remember that? that thread went on for a long time!) The nice me says that it is not your knowledge and use of english that is stupid, but your insistence that you are never wrong, despite solid evidence to the contrary. The mean me is *repressed* by the actions of Jim the god of thread decorum. But we know what Freud had to say about secret little obsessions that are repressed . . .

To Ion's many skills we can add the ability to change history. Yes Ion, you did not insist that adding and subtracting was "simple calculus," and yes, you did not claim in several posts that everyone else was wrong, and yes, you did not claim that Biondi changed his name from Bondi, and yes, you do not try to point out the mote in everyone else's eyes so that we won't see the log in your own (note - biblical allusion inside of sarcasm.) Yes, it is the case that splitting up the unword ;) 'copeout' into 'cope' and 'out' will pass your spell checker, but that would be dumb, because the combination 'cope out' (two words that are difficult to imagine together) does not mean what you meant, which was 'copout.' Perhaps you think that 'cop' (also seen in the phrase 'cop a plea') is related to 'cope?' It is not, just as the root of calculus is not related to the root of calculate (remember that? that thread went on for a long time!) The nice me says that it is not your knowledge and use of english that is stupid, but your insistence that you are never wrong, despite solid evidence to the contrary. The mean me is *repressed* by the actions of Jim the god of thread decorum. But we know what Freud had to say about secret little obsessions that are repressed . . .