| Sam Sloan 2005-07-08, 8:34 pm |
| On 8 Jul 2005 14:54:44 -0700, "Taylor Kingston"
<tkingston@chittenden.com> wrote:
quote:
>Sam Sloan wrote:
>
>
> I'm surprised you ask, Sam, since I posted the answer back on May 24
>in response to a post by you. The four words were:
>
> furthermore, question, quoted, below.
>
> For the full post, go to:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/8hb35
OK. I see it now. I did not see it before because (Thank Goodness) I
do not rread all the postings to this group.
Here is what you say was in your original letter:
"Furthermore, your question (quoted below) involved assumptions or
assertions I do not share." -- e-mail, July 2001
You complain that Evans printed this as supposedly a direct quote from
you.:
"Your involved assumptions or assertions I do not share." -- Chess
Life, 12/2001, page 7
Your complaint is that the four words: " Furthermore, question
(quoted below)" were deleted.
I disagree. The word "furthermore" is not good style and any competent
editor would cut it out.
The words "quoted below" should also be cut out. The words might not
even be quoted below when published.
So, the only word you have any valid complaint about is the word
"question". I agree that it would have been best to leave that in,
providing that space allowed. It was probably cut out by mistake when
the three surrounding words were cut out. However, cutting out the
word question did not change the meaning of the sentence that was
clearly preserved and understood.
The issue now is that on this Usenet group you have posted more than
one hundred vituperative personal attacks on Grandmaster Larry Evans,
Larry Parr and myself all over this deletion of just one word in a
letters to the editor column. You have stirred up hundreds of personal
attacks on us by various posters all over this one word. You have
caused your backers to lose one thousand dollars to me (for that I am
thankful).
The result is that your letters to the editor will probably never be
published again by any editor who finds out about this. I certainly
doubt that Chess Life magazine will ever be willing to publish
anything by you again.
Sam Sloan
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