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to Sternwallo, Lily wrote
Your posts are so long that I can't muster enough interest to read past what directly interests me.
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Then just read the review on Amazon; that should include all of the relevant information, right?
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Lily wrote
Nice try. It's ridiculous but a nice try.
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Right. So I can safely assume that you'll never use
demand as a more forceful synonym for
insist. Good to know; I might insist that you credit me if you did. I might even demand it.
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Lily wrote
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I wrote
First; I don't comb through your messages. I only point out the glaring mistakes, and only because you harp about your 300 years experience studying Japanese architecture, or whatever degree you happen to have bought.
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O yes you do, Linguistic Dwarf. |
I'm going to give this back to you and let you work on it. If you resubmit it later in the semester, I'll average the two grades together
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Lily wrote
Of the 14 messages you have posted since yesterday 4:45 pm (or #318) all are directly about what I have written and 8 are directly addressed to me.
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Your cownting has improved. Unfortunately, it still doesn't mean that I have to comb through your messages. Again: I'm only picking on your most glaring errors. If your rampant illiteracy occasionally compels me to take a break from picking on the errors of others (ask Method21 if I'm singling you out for criticism), it still doesn't mean that I have to comb your posts to find errors. My proliferation of posts criticizing your butchery of my language is indicative only of a particularly bad streak on your part.
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Lily wrote
I would say that that is demanding my attention.
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I'm really just trying to impress my atheist friends.
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Lily wrote
Well, you finally got it.
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I think I'm going to return it; the picture made it look a lot better in the catalog.
Again: I don't know why you think I care what you have to say. I'm criticizing you freelance here; I don't even care if you
read my posts, much less if you actually respond to them. Honestly, I enjoy making fun of you with others more than I enjoy wasting my time trying to correct you directly.
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Lily wrote
Have you got anything to make the effort worth my while?
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What effort?
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ajf wrote
"Demand v. insist" is a usage issue; and while I expect those to be highlighted as well, it is not a syntax, grammar or spelling issue.
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So what? Your usage is wrong. |
Sadly, I just got my North Carolina state-issued poetic license in the mail, so I think I'll continue to use it in the admittedly unconventional manner that I've chosen when I feel the situation warrants it.
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Lily wrote
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There you go again, assuming that I care if you acknowledge me.
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You obviously do. |
Oh darling; I really don't. I will, of course, answer you if you address me; I'm courteous like that. But whether or not you acknowledge what I have to say really isn't going to affect my day in the slightest.
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Lily wrote
Or would be if you didn't keep demanding answers from me.
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Dearest, please try to parse the meaning from these words: I DON'T CARE IF YOU ANSWER ME.
In fact, I now demand that you
not answer me. No matter what I post, you are not to address me. I insist.
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Lily wrote
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ajf wrote
What meaningless nonsense.
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Finally we agree on your contributions to any discussion I am involved in. |
You're rubber and I'm glue, I suppose?
And your tendency to end sentences with prepositions is truly abominable.