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| From | "Eytan Mirsky" <eytanmirsky@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Dick v. Megadick, was talentless hack |
| Date | Wed, 18 Jan 2006 12:20:18 -0500 |
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Stewart:
>I'm sorry, I hadn't realized this was a situation in which Eytan was
>allowed to be a dick to someone for no good reason ("Buy a dictionary
>or thesaurus, please"), but nobody else was allowed to be a dick to
>him in return.
>
Michael:
>If the standard for "being a dick" is merely making a
>comment that someone who misuses a word should buy a
>dictionary or thesaurus, then you are a megadick.
Me:
Michael has already done a better job at defending me (twice) than I could
do myself, but I want to say that my intention wasn't to be a "dick" since I
had no reason to think that the writer of the review was ever going to read
my comments. Having said that, I will admit that I could have written
something softer like "It's a pet peeve of mine when writers misuse
words..."
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