Tim Brien said:Sir, you choose to exaggerate both my intellect and my intent.
Terry...You are a language expert, so your chosen words were deliberate and meant to offend....
Nothing was further from my mind than deliberately offending anybody, including you. Nor am I devious enough to enveigle a malicious note into what was an otherwise simple attempt to make a distinction between what I saw as a thread that was developing into a nice bit of antagonism, [something of which there is often a more than a trace on this otherwise friendly forum] by a literary simple ruse - that of posting a counterpoint to it and highlighting it in the title.
I am nowhere near as clever as you give me credit for, more’s the pity, or else I could make money by my writing.
Perhaps if my poor knowledge of the English language was more precise and lucid, we would not now be in the confrontational episode in which we seem to be placed.
I am moving on from this episode, and will begin a new thread that has no unspoken ‘hidden agenda’ or subtle criticism.
tac
