On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 20:13:51 -0000, dw
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On 18 Jun, 13:17, Dave wrote:
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What a pretentious post! What in plain English does the ‘rarely does the sentiment lie in the fidelity’ mean? I have a degree in English literature and a masters in Education – still can’t follow this line of thought- this kind of ‘babblespeak’ infuriates me’. Say what you mean or don’t say it.
I think by now, everybody has decided you are an ‘ indistinct face’.
Dave
Oh Dear I seem to have rattled a few cages! Ron joins in with an ill infornmed swipe at me, and suddenly other ‘bretheren’ within the community spring to the attack.
However your ‘attack’ is a little like being svaged by a dead sheep! Tony of Forida thinks that the word ‘effort’ is synonymous with ‘endeavour’.
Tony, an effort can be either positive or negative, one can make an effort to committ the perfect murder. Endeavour however implies a positive connotation. This my choice of endeavour.
Ahh, a porch dog comes down to debate word usage. "Endeavor" (AmE) is an effort; an attempt. But, an attempt with no assurance of success. You have endeavoured (BrE) to be clever, but nothing positive has come from it. Mike expended some effort in an endeavor to produce a more detailed image.
Let’s see…you were a Lit major, right? When Brontë wrote:
"I was growing very lenient to my master: I was forgetting all his faults, for which I had once kept a sharp look-out. It had formerly been my endeavour to study all sides of his character: to take the bad with the good; and from the just weighing of both, to form an equitable judgment. Now I saw no bad. The sarcasm that had repelled, the harshness that had startled me once, were only like keen condiments in a choice dish; their presence was pungent, but their absence would be felt as comparatively insipid."
was she implying a positive result from this assessment of Rochester?
and Dave, I’m afraid your wit is too sharp for me – I’m an indistict face – how did you dream that up. Where did you get it?
The "indistinct face" is a placeholder. A figure, usually in art, that is not important enough to the scene to be a center of attention. Don’t they teach anything at university any more?
The bottom line is that if Ron hadn’t thought he could take his cheap shot at me and get away with it, then none of this would have happened. So why not criticise old Ron?
Because old Ron made a comment that was not directed at you, but an observation about the intrinsic value of an photograph whether that image be accurate or not.
However one good thing has come from it: Mike has emerged an absolute gentleman – he helped when asked. He didn’t try and score cheap points.
Mike went in as a gentleman and emerged unchanged.
None of you others could move your mouse to offer help, but you certainly could when there was an opportunity to criticise. Shame on you!
On y soit qui mal y pense!
You mean "Honi soit qui mal y pense"? If you actually understand the origin and meaning of that, you’d know that it applies to your judgement of Ron’s comment.
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Tony Cooper
Orlando, FL