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Re: Spy plane (was: Why is religion so hot?)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 3 Apr 2001 16:00:23 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Jeremy H. Sproat writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Jason J. Railton writes:
> > You're right. It sucks. It's the easiest subject to fall into debating
> > because there's always a good supply of whackos with way-out ideas to fire
> > things up. Plus no-one's actually going to listen and change their views,
> > and no-one's got any proof, so you can just keep going on ad infinitum.
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> Well-put. I couldn't have trolled any better myself!
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> Cheers,
> - jsproat
"trolled", "strawman" - what language are you half-cut bunch of muppets
using here anyway?
So if you really want to make a good point in a debate, that no one can
argue with, you just make up your own language to do it in - is that it?
j450n
[Why_n0t_ju57_d0_7h3_wh013_7hing_in_1337?]
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| (...) "Troll" is of course common Internet parlance for a person who posts in a manner apparently specifically intended to produce heated and emotional responses. "Straw Man" is a long-standing term for the rhetorical falacy of picking your (...) (23 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | Re: Spy plane (was: Why is religion so hot?)
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| (...) Trolling is what you attempted immediately above: trolling for reactions on the internet rather than trolling for fish in a lake. A "strawman" is not a made-up term: from Encarta Dictionary, "unimportant issue or person: an issue or person of (...) (23 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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