Peter Duniho wrote:

Sure. I'm not perfect. I have admitted to being wrong several times
here, the rare instances it happened.

Very big of you :-). In many years of watching you post, I can't
remember any, but maybe my memory is just faulty.

My post was less-than-kind simply because your post was as well....
.... Your post had no point, other than to (falsely, as it happens)
claim some superior knowledge. It contributed nothing to the
discussion, and was no more useful than a post the purpose of which
was solely to correct a spelling or grammar error.

That's certainly not what was intended, nor what I believe I did - see
below.

Those kinds of posts **** me off.

What, if anything, does not?

extraneous contemporizing about grammer and spelling posts deleted for
brevity's sake, since no one was correcting grammer and/or spelling.

Such posts are, whether worded nicely or not, simply belittling.....

There was no reference to spelling, since the issue at hand was whether
or not "ded" or "dead" was the right "reckoning" type, based on the
derivation of the term, not on the spelling of a word. I THOUGHT that I
knew the answer, so was explaining it. Since I was probably wrong, a
couple of folks nicely pointed that out, with references to where I
could find the correct information. There was nothing belittling about
my post, and no-one else seemed to take it that way. Is it at all
possible that the fact that you seem to find just about everything
annoying a function of you, and not the world around you?

It's irritating enough when they are correct, but when they actually
aren't, it's even more annoying. Annoyances beget rude posts.

Especially when someone has an particularly short fuse.

.... Even more so when that's the first contribution a person has made
in a month.

Aha. So the validity of a post is determined by the prolificity of the
poster? My post was probably wrong, but certainly on topic for the
group. If you do a Google search on my postings, you'll find that I'm
on topic 99% of the time, and have a very high S/N ratio. Many other
folks would be hard pressed to say the same.

I should probably be following the old adage, "if you have nothing
good to say, say nothing at all". But that cuts both ways. You
should have thought about that yourself before posting your message.

Since I thought that I was distributing information that might be of
interest to folks (wrongly, as it probably turns out), and wasn't
attacking anyone or insulting them, I'm not sure how that applies.

NOW, we're off topic, so I won't respond any more.

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