"Lars S. Mulford" <
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> > pleasant stroll from post to post into something akin to the gauntlet of doom. People posting
> > legitimate cycling questions & getting their chosen grammar reviewed and then being called an
> > ass*ole for making the
> grammatical
> > error
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> Howdy Joshua and others!
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> What you mention above is very true. Whether it is Ed posting with circular rhetoric or Tom
> correcting the spelling of a bike manufacturer, this place is not very attractive to the new
> recumbent rider.
Circular rhetoric? Yes, I think you are right. I always like to drive a point home before I leave a
subject because I never trust the intelligence of a reader to get my thought otherwise. By the way,
repetition (circular rhetoric) is the basis for all learning. Once over lightly never works for
anyone really.
If a person can
> understand the basic thrust of a message, why post a grammar/spelling correction to it? That seems
> rather petty and childish, AND drives off others from posting.
I never do that sort of thing and have severely criticized others in the past for doing it. However,
when others are being petty themselves, then I relish taking apart their posts and subjecting them
to their own medicine.
I've a local recumbent rider friend who is dyslexic
> and his spelling, at times, can be interesting. He'd never post here looking to get information,
> as he feels that his notes would be taken apart. That just rubs me the wrong way. He may be just
> one example and perhaps the needling that Tom engages in is not bothersome to others, but it
> bothers me that out there in the recumbent world, there is one rider who won't come here because
> of the sophomoric transgressions of one particular poster.
Tom mostly does this sort of thing for humor. And then some of us act very indignant about it - and
that is just humor too. Anyone who comes to this newsgroup without a sense of humor is going to be
drawn and quartered. Trust me on this.
And
> with Ed, there is just no telling how many people have been put off by your incessant, rambling
> posts. Why do you tilt at THIS windmill, Don Quixote?
It is really only unintelligent people who are put off by a bit of rambling. If you will notice, I
never ramble too much. Most of the posts here could use a bit of rambling. It would make them more
interesting and enjoyable. To stay on topic and stick to the subject too severely is extremely
boring - and it is a sort of rudeness in itself. Mr. Sherman does this sort of posting better than
anyone I know (even when he is off topic, he is on topic for the off topic and he never rambles). I
am just the opposite. But even so, I am always just trying to say something that I think might
lighten someone's day and increase their humanity.
> This note will change nothing about the way either of you post, I'm sure. A shame.
Yes, you are right about your message not changing anything, but it is not a shame, far from it.
Please note, Lars, that your posts do not get many responses because they are so dull. I could teach
you a few things about how to liven up your posts. But we are mostly all old men here and set in our
ways. You cannot teach an old dog new tricks. The main adventure left in our lives is to die.
(There, Lars, did not those last three sentences in the above paragraph lighten your day and
increase your humanity? Or was that too much "rambling" to suit you?)
Ed Dolan - Minnesota